I’m a third-year Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. My research interests include natural language processing, multimodal reasoning, computational humour, pun understanding and generation, knowledge graph and model routing. I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Michael Witbrock in the Strong AI Lab (SAIL) at the University of Auckland and Prof. Diana Benavides-Prado at Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Artificial Intelligence, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Mar 2024–present
• Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Sep 2020–Nov 2021
  • Graduated with Distinction
• Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Computer Science and Technology, Hebei University of Technology, China, Sep 2016–Jul 2020

Work Experience

• One Route PTE. LTD. (OneRoute)
  • Technical Advisor, June 2026–present
• University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Computer Science, March 2025–present
  • Casual Research Assistant, May 2024–present
• Algorithm Engineer, East China Institute of Computer Technology, Shanghai, China, Feb 2022–Mar 2024

Awards

• China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship

Service and Leadership

• Journal reviewer: Neurocomputing.
• Conference reviewer: SMC 2026 and IJCAI 2026.
• Student co-organizer, 2025 Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Sustainable Development Goals, University of Auckland.

News

• Aug 2026 — Joined the University of Auckland’s e-DIVA project as a Research Assistant.
• Aug 2026 — Two of our papers were accepted to EMNLP 2026.
• July 2026 — Serving as a Teaching Assistant for COMPSCI 367: Artificial Intelligence at the University of Auckland.
• Jun 2026 — Joined One Route PTE. LTD. (OneRoute) as a part-time Technical Advisor.

📧 Email: yuchen.su@auckland.ac.nz / Google Scholar / GitHub / ORCID / LinkedIn

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