Runcong Zhao

Senior Research Scientist in LLMs
King's College London

I joined King's College London in February 2023, where I am currently a Senior Research Scientist in Large Language Models, working on the EMBRACE project (Enhanced Maternal and Baby Results with AI-supported Care and Empowerment).

I hold a PhD in Computer Science and an MSc in Data Science from the University of Warwick, supervised by Prof. Yulan He and Dr. Lin Gui. I also hold a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

My research interests include:

• Personalised Agents: AI for Health, Education, and Entertainment; Multimodal Enhanced Interaction; Simulation of Human Social Interactions.
• LLM Reasoning: Conflict-aware Reasoning; Opinion Mining; Logical Reasoning; Information Extraction.

News

• 2026.06Paper accepted at ACL 2026 (Symbolic Relationship Reasoning, System Demonstration track).
• 2026.05Panel discussion at SLCPS Away Day 2026: Future Scientists and Clinicians — what do students need from us for an AI-enabled world?
• 2026.05Three papers accepted at ICML 2026 (LLM Watermark Vulnerability, Repo-Level Code Editing, Hallucination Detection).
• 2026.01Co-organised the AAAI 2026 Workshop on Personalization in the Era of Large Foundation Models.
• 2025.09Three papers accepted at EMNLP 2025 (Instruction Adherence, Educational Feedback, Student Assessment).
• 2025.08Joined the Department of AI and Personalised Health at King's as Inkfish Senior Research Scientist.
• 2025.07Our AI for Education project featured in KCL News and The Telegraph.
• 2025.07Invited talk at WAIC 2025 (World Artificial Intelligence Conference).
• 2025.06Poster at London Tech Week 2025: LearnLens.
• 2025.06LearnLens has been selected for the second cohort of the KCL Spinout Accelerator. We are seeking investment. Please contact me for a live demo. Also feel free to reach out for work opportunities.
• 2025.05Paper accepted at ICML 2025 as Spotlight (Embedding-Space Reasoning).
• 2024.08Co-organised the 10th SIGHAN Workshop at ACL 2024.
• 2024.05Two papers accepted at ACL 2024 (Theory-of-Mind Reasoning, Relationship Reasoning in Narratives).
• 2024.02Paper accepted at AAAI 2024 (Narrative Role-Playing).
• 2023.10Invited talk at the University of Cambridge on Interactive Narrative Understanding.
• 2023.07PhD completed at the University of Warwick.
• 2023.05Papers accepted at SIGIR 2023 (Opinion Extraction) and EACL 2023 (Misinformation Detection).