Bio
I am a PhD candidate at the UC Santa Cruz working with Prof. Yi Zhang. I received my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a Statistics minor from UC Santa Cruz. I'm currently a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind.
My research aims to empower AI systems with advanced reasoning capabilities. I work at the intersection of the following topics:
• Complex Planning and Reasoning: My research aims to solve real-world problems, which often require multi-step reasoning and actions.
• Multi-agent Collaboration: I work on MAS (multi-agent systems), so my study also includes how agents coordinate, communicate, and share information.
• Information Retrieval: I conduct research on, but not limited to, RAG with LLM; broadly speaking, I care about Retrieval-Augmented AI.
News
- Check out our work on Generative Information Retrieval
- Check out our work on "thinking with image". GIRT: Grounded Reasoning with Images & Texts
- Our paper Knowing You Don't Know: Learning When to Continue Search in Multi-round RAG through Self-Practicing is accepted by SIGIR 2025
- I am excited to be working as a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind
- Our paper Right this way: Can VLMs Guide Us to See More to Answer Questions? is accepted by NeurIPS 2024
- Slides, paper, and more resources covered in our SIGIR 2024 tutorial tools-meet-llm are available online
- Our paper IM-RAG: Inner Monologue Retrieval-Augmented Generation is accepted by SIGIR 2024
- Our paper An interpretable answer scoring framework is accepted by SIGIR Generative-IR 2024
- Our paper E-commerce Question Intent Taxonomy is accepted by SIGIR eCom 2024
- Our paper IMMO: Inner Monologue Multi-Modal Optimization is accepted by AAAI 2024
- Our paper Learning Inner Monologue is accepted by NeurIPS 2023 Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR) workshop
- I will work as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon during this summer
- I am excited to be working as a part-time AI resident at Mineral
- Our paper CPL is accepted by EMNLP 2022
- I will (re)join UCSC as a Graduate student
Experience
- Google DeepMind: Student Researcher, 2025
- Amazon Alexa: Applied Scientist Intern, 2023
- Mineral.ai, an Alphabet company, previous Google[X] project: AI Resident, 2023, 2024
Services
Reviewer:
NeurIPS 2023
TheWebConf (WWW) 2024, CVPR 2024, ICML 2024, NeurIPS 2024
ECIR 2025, ICLR 2025, ICML 2025, SIGIR 2025, ACL 2025, NeurIPS 2025
Knowledge-Based Systems
Event Organizer:
Co-organized the tools-meet-llm tutorial at ACM SIGIR 2024.
Co-chair and organizer of the 1st AI Student Research Symposium at UC Santa Cruz.
Teaching assistant:
Programming Abstractions 2022
Advanced Topics in Natural Language Processing 2023
Applied Machine Learning: Deep Learning 2023, 2024
Selected Publications
Full publication list can be found on Google Scholar page. (* indicates equal contribution).
Get Connected
I am always interested in working with new collaborators from all backgrounds on research ideas and/or impactful projects related to my areas of interest. That being said, I commit the sufficient time to each project I take on, so my availability for new projects may depends on current commitments.
If you’re interested in collaborating, feel free to send me an email to find a time to chat!