Yanqiao ZHU’s Homepage

Welcome to my Personal Homepage!

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, where I work with Professors Wei Wang and Yizhou Sun. Before joining UCLA, I obtained my master’s degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

My research centers on developing AI systems that understand and reason with complex, structured information. Currently, I focus on large language models for scientific applications, with particular emphasis on search, planning, and optimization capabilities that enable autonomous discovery. My broader research interests include graph and geometric deep learning and data-efficient learning. Moreover, I am also interested in quantitative trading with a focus on structured data understanding and mining in financial markets.

Recent Updates

• [9/18/2025] SPiCE accepted to NeurIPS 2025. See you in 🌮 San Diego!
• [7/1/2025] Learning on Graphs conference 2025 will be held in-person at Arizona State University, 🌵 Phoenix, USA. See the calls for papers and reviewers
• [6/28/2025] Selected for 2025 Amazon Fellowship
• [3/31/2025] Started internship at Point72
• [2/14/2025] Selected for D. E. Shaw Research Doctoral & Postdoctoral Fellowship
• [1/22/2025] MolLEO accepted to ICLR 2025. Congratulations to all collaborators!
• [11/12/2024] Passed oral qualifying exam and advanced to candidacy
• [9/20/2024] BMRetriever accepted to EMNLP 2024. Congratulations to Ran and Yue!
• [6/24/2024] Started summer internship at Meta
• [5/1/2024] SciBench accepted to ICML 2024. Thanks to all collaborators!