Jiatong Li

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I am a first-year Ph.D. student in the School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences at University of Wisconsin-Madison where I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Sharon Li. My current research focuses on memory, reasoning, and user-engaged LLM agents.

Previously, I earned my M.S. and B.S. degrees in Data Science from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2025 and 2022, respectively, under the supervision of Dr. Qi Liu. My prior research experience spans perturbation-driven LLM robustness evaluation, data mining, and cognitive diagnosis for intelligent education. Throughout my academic journey, I have had the pleasure of collaborating with Dr. Mengxiao Zhu at USTC, Dr. Xiang Liu at Educational Testing Service, Dr. Renjun Hu at Alibaba Cloud, and Dr. Yifei Yuan at University of Copenhagen.

News

Aug 17, 2025 Start my PhD study at UW-Madison.

Selected Publications

  1. Preprint
    Thinking Makes LLM Agents Introverted: How Mandatory Thinking Can Backfire in User-Engaged Agents
    Jiatong Li, Changdae Oh, Hyeong Kyu Choi, and 2 more authors
    Arxiv:2602.07796, 2026
  2. NeurIPS ’24
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    PertEval: Unveiling Real Knowledge Capacity of LLMs with Knowledge-Invariant Perturbations (Spotlight)
    Jiatong Li, Renjun Hu, Kunzhe Huang, and 5 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
  3. WWW ’24
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    Towards the Identifiability and Explainability for Personalized Learner Modeling: An Inductive Paradigm
    Jiatong Li, Qi Liu, Fei Wang, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2024, 2024