- About me
- A fourth-year CSE PhD student at UConn
- Advisor: Prof. Chuxu Zhang
- Research interests
- large language models
- graph neural networks
- anything related to AI
- Contact me
- Personal life
- I grew up in China. My Chinese name is 李嘉政.
- I love sports, especially basketball and soccer. I'm a fan of Real Madrid and LA Lakers.
- I love animals. I have a cat and a dog.
- I love listening to R&B and Hip-Hop songs (though I am the worst singer), and I enjoy watching mystery movies.
- Recently I'm also interested in fintech, especially blockchain and crypto.
- Education
- PhD student in Computer Science (Transferred)
University of Connecticut, CT, USA
2025-present
- PhD student in Computer Science
Brandeis University, MA, USA
2022-2024
- B.E. in Biomedical Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
2017-2021
- Industry Experience
- Applied Scientist Intern @ Amazon Web Services, Bay Area, USA
06/2025-08/2025
Worked on agentic RL training
- Research Intern @ Ant Group, Hangzhou, China
06/2024-01/2025
Worked on data efficient LLM mid-training
- Publications
- [Arxiv 2025], SALT: Step-level Advantage Assignment for Long-horizon Agents via Trajectory Graph
Authors: Jiazheng Li, Yawei Wang, David Yan, Yijun Tian, Zhichao Xu, Huan Song, Panpan Xu, Lin Lee Cheong
- [Arxiv 2025], Graph Foundation Models: A Comprehensive Survey
Authors: Zehong Wang, Zheyuan Liu, Tianyi Ma, Jiazheng Li, Zheyuan Zhang, Xingbo Fu, Yiyang Li, Zhengqing Yuan, Wei Song, Yijun Ma, Qingkai Zeng, Xiusi Chen, Jianan Zhao, Jundong Li, Meng Jiang, Pietro Lio, Nitesh Chawla, Chuxu Zhang, Yanfang Ye
- [ICML 2025], MASS: MAthematical Data Selection via Skill Graphs for Pretraining Large Language Models
Authors: Jiazheng Li*, Lu Yu*, Qing Cui, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jun Zhou, Yanfang Ye, Chuxu Zhang
- [KDD 2025], Graph Prompting for Graph Learning Models: Recent Advances and Future Directions
Authors: Xingbo Fu, Zehong Wang, Zihan Chen, Jiazheng Li, Yaochen Zhu, Zhenyu Lei, Cong Shen, Yanfang Ye, Chuxu Zhang, Jundong Li
- [TMLR 2025], Instance-Aware Graph Prompt Learning
Authors: Jiazheng Li, Jundong Li, Chuxu Zhang
- [CIKM 2023], Heterogeneous Temporal Graph Neural Network Explainer
Authors: Jiazheng Li, Chunhui Zhang, Chuxu Zhang
- [CIKM 2023], A Multi-Modality Framework for Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction by Harnessing Multi-source Data
Authors: Qianlong Wen, Jiazheng Li, Chuxu Zhang, Yanfang Ye
- Fellows & Awards
- Predoctoral Fellowship, School of Computing University of Connecticut, 2025
