> UIUC MSIM student · Data Enthusiast · Software Developer
A Bit About Me
I'm an MSIM student at UIUC focused on software engineering, databases, and data visualization — currently building things like Nexus, an AI-powered academic planning system, and a graph-based compliance platform with Neo4j. Before that: civil, hydraulic & transportation engineering at Zhejiang University, which is where the analytical habit started.
Currently
M.S. in Information Management
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign · 2025–2027
Research
First author
When a reasoning model is cut off mid-thought, a System-1 decision model can read the partial trace and answer. At a 1,500-token budget it beats forced answering by 4.1 pp, and a learned stopping policy saves 71.3% of the full-run cost for a 0.58 pp accuracy loss.
Can cheap decision models stand in for LLM judges? Across five hallucination types (9,852 items), they match or come close on some types, and a confidence cascade reaches a generative judge's accuracy at 1–3% of its cost — but needs validation before use.
A knowledge-graph agent built from 163K Reddit posts and WebMD reviews (385,790 drug–side-effect relations) that answers GLP-1 questions with verifiable evidence, and shows where patient narratives and FAERS reports diverge.
A conversational multi-agent system that automates the PRISMA workflow. Every screening decision comes with a reason and every extracted value with its source, reaching extraction F1 up to 0.788.
Projects
Always happy to talk data, viz, or the occasional Bigfoot sighting.
