🏫 I’m a second-year CS PhD student at UW-Madison. Before that, I did my B.Eng in Computer Science (IEEE Honor Class) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

♍️ I enjoy coding and reading. I’m driven by an insatiable curiosity about how complex systems actually work. My research focuses on large language models.

🔬 Prior to UW-Madison, I was fortunate to work with Prof. Pengfei Liu and Prof. Junxian He.

🎓 Educations

  • 2024.09 - (now), PhD in CS, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • 2020.09 - 2024.06, B.Eng in CS (IEEE Honor Class), Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
  • 2023.02 - 2023.07, Exchange Student in CS, EPFL.

📖 Selected Publications

Dissecting Human and LLM Preferences
J. Li, F. Zhou, S. Sun, Y. Zhang, H. Zhao, P. Liu
PDF | Github | ACL, 2024

Extending LLMs’ Context Window with 100 Samples
Y. Zhang, J. Li, P. Liu
PDF | Github | arXiv, 2024

Pygmtools: A Python Graph Matching Toolkit
R. Wang, Z. Guo, W. Pan, J. Ma, Y. Zhang, N. Yang, Q. Liu, L. Wei, H. Zhang, C. Liu, Z. Jiang, X. Yang, J. Yan
PDF | Github | Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2024

C-Eval: A Multi-Level Multi-Discipline Chinese Evaluation Suite for Foundation Models
Y. Huang*, Y. Bai*, Z. Zhu, J. Zhang, J. Zhang, T. Su, J. Liu, C. Lv, Y. Zhang, J. Lei, Y. Fu, M. Sun, J. He
PDF | Github | NeurIPS (Datasets and Benchmarks track), 2023

🧑‍🌾 Work Experience

  • Microsoft CoreAI, 2025.6-Now

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Shanghai AI Lab, 2024.3-2024.8

  • Shanghai AI Lab, 2023.7-2023.10

🏆 Awards

  • Shanghai Outstanding Graduate Award (top 5%), 2024

  • Ubiquant Scholarship (awarded to 10 students across SJTU), 2023

  • SJTU Outstanding Student Scholarship (top 10%), 2020-2023

  • Longfor Foundation Scholarship (top 5%), 2021