Lingzi Zhang is a PhD scholar at the Alibaba-NTU Joint Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She obtained her Master’s degree in Business Analytics from the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to her graduate studies, she worked as a data scientist and built machine learning solutions tailored to the fast-moving consumer goods industry. Her research interests include recommender systems, multimodal recommender systems, and self-supervised learning.