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Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.S. in Statistics & Computer Science | Expected May 2026
GPA: 3.94/4.00

Relevant Coursework:

Computer Science: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning for Computer Vision, Data Mining, Machine Learning Systems, Algorithms, Numeric Methods
Math & Statistics: Statistical Modeling, Applied Bayesian Analysis, Statistics and Probability, Linear Algebra

Awards & Honors

Fiddler Innovation Undergraduate Student Fellowship Award, UIUC, 2025
Dean’s List — Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025

Publications

Best of Both Worlds: Multimodal Reasoning and Generation via Unified Discrete Flow Matching

Onkar Susladkar, Tushar Prakash, Gayatri Deshmukh, Kiet A. Nguyen, Jiaxun Zhang, Adheesh Juvekar, Tianshu Bao, Lin Chai, Sparsh Mittal, Inderjit S. Dhillon, Ismini Lourentzou. Preprint.

SafeScientist: Enhancing AI Scientist Safety for Risk-Aware Scientific Discovery

Jiaxun Zhang*, Kunlun Zhu*, Ziheng Qi*, Nuoxing Shang, Zijia Liu, Peixuan Han, Yue Su, Haofei Yu, Jiaxuan You. EMNLP 2025.

TinyScientist: An Interactive, Extensible, and Controllable Framework for Building Research Agents

Haofei Yu*, Keyang Xuan*, Fenghai Li*, Kunlun Zhu, Zijie Lei, Jiaxun Zhang, Ziheng Qi, Kyle Richardson, Jiaxuan You. EMNLP 2025 System Demonstrations.

Mental Health Impacts of AI Companions: Triangulating Social Media Quasi-Experiments, User Perspectives, and a Relational Lens

Yunhao Yuan, Jiaxun Zhang, Talayeh Aledavood, Renwen Zhang, Koustuv Saha. ACM CHI 2026.

Where LLM Agents Fail and How They Can Learn from Failures

Kunlun Zhu*, Zijia Liu*, Bingxuan Li*, Muxin Tian*, Yingxuan Yang, Jiaxun Zhang, Pengrui Han, Qipeng Xie, Fuyang Cui, Weijia Zhang, Xiaoteng Ma, Xiaodong Yu, Gowtham Ramesh, Jialian Wu, Zicheng Liu, Pan Lu, James Zou, Jiaxuan You. Preprint.

Counterfactual Segmentation Reasoning: Diagnosing and Mitigating Pixel-Grounding Hallucination

Xinzhuo Li*, Adheesh Juvekar*, Jiaxun Zhang, Xingyou Liu, Muntasir Wahed, Kiet A. Nguyen, Yifan Shen, Tianjiao Yu, Ismini Lourentzou. CVPR 2026 Findings.

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