Longyin Zhang is a Research Scientist in the Aural and Language Intelligence (ALI) department at the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (A*STAR I²R). He received his Master’s and PhD degrees from the Natural Language Processing Research Group at Soochow University, China.
With over 8 years of research experience in natural language processing, Zhang specialises in discourse analysis, entailment reasoning and multi-document summarisation. He has authored more than 20 research papers in leading AI conferences and journals, including ACL, ACM MM, and IEEE TASLP.
His current research focuses on Southeast Asia-centric omni models within the broader field of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). He is a key contributor to Singapore’s National Multimodal Large Language Model Programme (MERaLiON), where he works on advancing visual recognition and reasoning. His interests include interpretable, event-centric summarisation frameworks and the development of multimodal AI for real-world, regional applications.
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