Zhaochen Hong

About Me

I recently graduated with an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and am now a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, advised by Prof. Yiling Lou. My research focuses on artificial intelligence and software engineering, particularly AI agents, coding agents, and large language model evaluation.

Teaching

Previously served as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for:

CS 173: Discrete Structures (Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026)

CS 105: Intro to Computing (Non-Technical) (Fall 2025)

Publications

• DecompressionLM: Deterministic, Diagnostic, and Zero-Shot Concept Graph Extraction from Language Models
  Zhaochen Hong, Jiaxuan You.
  arXiv preprint (2026)
• ConsistencyChecker: Tree-based Evaluation of LLM Generalization Capabilities
  Zhaochen Hong, Haofei Yu, Jiaxuan You.
  The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2025)
• MultiAgentBench: Evaluating the Collaboration and Competition of LLM agents
  Kunlun Zhu, Hongyi Du, Zhaochen Hong, Xiaocheng Yang, Shuyi Guo, Zhe Wang, Zhenhailong Wang, Cheng Qian, Xiangru Tang, Heng Ji, Jiaxuan You.
  The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2025)
• ResearchTown: Simulator of Human Research Community
  Haofei Yu, Zhaochen Hong, Zirui Cheng, Kunlun Zhu, Keyang Xuan, Jinwei Yao, Tao Feng, Jiaxuan You.
  The International Conference on Machine Learning (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 of Engineering in Software Engineering
  Tsinghua University

Contact Information

Email: zhong42@illinois.edu