Ziyu Chen

Hi👋, I'm Ziyu.

Currently a master's student in the Data Science Institute at The University of Chicago, where I work with Professor James Evans and Honglin Bao in the Knowledge Lab. I also collaborate with Professor Arman Cohan and Yilun Zhao at Yale NLP. I earned my bachelor's degree with a double major in Computer Science and Biosystems Engineering from Zhejiang University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Professor Jake Zhao.

My research focuses on understanding and enhancing the capabilities of language models, as well as adapting them for discovery and prediction.

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Research

IdeaAnchor: Teaching LLMs to Turn Literature into Research Ideas
arXiv, 2026
Measuring the Gap Between Human and LLM Research Ideas
arXiv, COLM @ LM4Sci (Outstanding Paper), 2026
Optimizing Decoding Paths in Masked Diffusion Models by Quantifying Uncertainty
NeurIPS, 2026
SciMDR: Advancing Scientific Multimodal Document Reasoning
ACL, 2026
From Laws to Motivation: Guiding Exploration through Law-Based Reasoning and Rewards
NeurIPS @ IMOL, 2024
EmoEden: Applying Generative Artificial Intelligence to Emotional Learning for Children with High-Function Autism
CHI, 2024

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