--- title: "Zhu Sun — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zhu Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 24 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhu-sun/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhu-sun/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhu Sun # Zhu Sun Zhu Sun has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Jie Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-zhang/), [Tianjun Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianjun-wei/), [Yingpeng Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yingpeng-du/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5033957641) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3350-7022) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130867711) · [**h-index 24**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5033957641) · [132 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033957641) · [2,172 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033957641&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhu-sun/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhu-sun/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13248](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/133/#star-13248) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Zhu+Sun) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhu+Sun) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhu+Sun) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhu+Sun) ## Affiliations [🎓**Singapore University of Technology and Design** Singapore · Singapore 2024–2026 · 46 papersEmployment since 2024 · Assistant Professor, Information Systems Technology and Design*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/singapore-university-of-technology-and-design/) · [🎓**Nanyang Technological University** Singapore · Singapore 2015–2026 · 22 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanyang-technological-university/) · [🎓**China University of Petroleum, Beijing** Beijing · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/041qf4r12) · [🏛️**Agency for Science, Technology and Research** Singapore · Singapore 2019–2025 · 27 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/agency-for-science-technology-and-research/) · [🔬**Institute of High Performance Computing** Singapore · Singapore 2022–2025 · 22 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-of-high-performance-computing/) · [🎓**Shanghai University** Shanghai · China 2007–2014 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-university/) · [🎓**Macquarie University** Sydney · Australia 2013–2024 · 11 papersEmployment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/macquarie-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Decision Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Management Science and Operations Research · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/management-science-and-operations-research/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhu-sun/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Mirroring Users: Towards Building Preference-aligned User Simulator with User Feedback in Recommendation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wei-2026-mirroring-users-building-preference-aligned/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Recommender systems need realistic user simulators for offline evaluation, because online A/B tests are slow and raise privacy issues. 2. **[Adaptive and Representative Multi-Interest Modeling for Recommendation with Large Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-adaptive-representative-multi-interest-modeling/)** *(2026)* Multi-interest recommenders give each user several representation vectors. Most of them group items with heuristics such as embedding similarity or co-occurrence, and these heuristics break down when interactions are sparse or side information is incomplete. The authors propose LARMI, a framework in which an LLM… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[An Attentional Recurrent Neural Network for Personalized Next Location Recommendation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i01.5337) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Qing Guo et al.*2020 · 125 citations* 2. **[Mirroring Users: Towards Building Preference-aligned User Simulator with User Feedback in Recommendation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wei-2026-mirroring-users-building-preference-aligned/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Tianjun Wei, Huizhong Guo, Yingpeng Du, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 3. **[Adaptive and Representative Multi-Interest Modeling for Recommendation with Large Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-adaptive-representative-multi-interest-modeling/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Ziyan Wang, Yingpeng Du, Tianjun Wei, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jie Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-zhang/) ×2 - [Tianjun Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianjun-wei/) ×2 - [Yingpeng Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yingpeng-du/) ×2 - [Dongxia Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongxia-wang/) - [Ziyan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziyan-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhu-sun/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026