Zhaochen Hong

About Me

I am currently pursuing my Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My research interests include natural language processing, AI Agents, and generally exploring potentials for LLMs.

Teaching

I was TA for UIUC's CS 173: Discrete Structures for 2024 Fall semester.

I am TA for UIUC's CS 173: Discrete Structures for 2025 Spring semester.

Publications

• ResearchTown: Simulator of Human Research Community
  Haofei Yu, Zhaochen Hong, Zirui Cheng, Kunlun Zhu, Keyang Xuan, Jinwei Yao, Tao Feng, Jiaxuan You.
  arXiv preprint (2024)
• Read it Twice: Towards Faithfully Interpretable Fact Verification by Revisiting Evidence
  Xuming Hu, Zhaochen Hong, Chenwei Zhang, Irwin King, Philip Yu.
  Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '23) (2023)
• Think Rationally About What You See: Continuous Rationale Extraction for Relation Extraction
  Xuming Hu, Zhaochen Hong, Zhijiang Guo, Lijie Wen, Philip Yu.
  Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '23) (2023)
• Reading Broadly to Open Your Mind: Improving Open Relation Extraction With Search Documents Under Self-Supervision
  Xuming Hu, Zhaochen Hong, Chenwei Zhang, Aiwei Liu, Shiao Meng, Lijie Wen, Irwin King, Philip Yu.
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2023)
• Three Heads Are Better than One: Improving Cross-Domain NER with Progressive Decomposed Network
  Xuming Hu, Zhaochen Hong, Yong Jiang, Zhichao Lin, Xiaobin Wang, Pengjun Xie, Philip Yu.
  Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2023)

Education

• Master of Science in Computer Science
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2024 - Present)
• Bachelor; Software Engineering
  Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Contact Information

Email: zhong42@illinois.edu