I’m currently a tenure-track associate professor at John Hopcroft Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. From September 2020 to April 2025, I worked at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab. I received my PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2020, supervised by Prof. Pheng Ann Heng and Prof. Shengyu Zhang. Prior to that, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from The South China University of Technology in 2016. I received the Best Paper Award at DLP-RecSys 2023.

My research interests span large language models and recommendation algorithms. Specifically, my work focuses on: (a) Designing AI agents with long-term memory, reflection capabilities, and tool intelligence; (b) Advancing next-generation recommendation models powered by LLMs, with a particular focus on developing autonomous personalized agents for real-world applications.

News

• [March 2025] Our ToolACE-v2 model ranks 1st among 8B-scaled models on Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard!
• [Jan 2025] Three papers got accepted to ICLR 2025, including one first-authored paper ToolACE.
• [Jan 2025] Three papers got accepted to WWW 2025.
• [Jan 2025] Two papers got accepted to NAACL 2025.
• [Dec 2024] Our ToolACE model was downloaded 30k+ on hugging face.