My research explores the interplay between institutional structures and individual behavior — how systems shape choices, and how human agency reshapes systems in return.
Currently, I focus on building agents that model human reasoning and behavior:
(i) why it matters (SSRST) → (ii) how to evaluate (HugAgent) → (iii) how to build (ongoing).
Recent Publications [click to show/hide]
Simulating Society Requires Simulating Thought · NeurIPS 2025 Position Track
Chance Jiajie Li*, Jiayi Wu*, Zhenze Mo, Ao Qu, Yuhan Tang, Kaiya Ivy Zhao, Yulu Gan, Jie Fan, Jiangbo Yu, Jinhua Zhao, Paul Liang, Luis Alonso, Kent Larson
* equal contribution
HugAgent: Benchmarking LLMs for Simulation of Individualized Human Reasoning · NeurIPS 2025 PersonaLLM (Oral)1Workshop on LLM Persona Modeling, LAW (Spotlight)2Workshop on Bridging Language, Agent, and World Models
Chance Jiajie Li*, Zhenze Mo*, Yuhan Tang*, Ao Qu, Jiayi Wu, Kaiya Ivy Zhao, Yulu Gan, Jie Fan, Jiangbo Yu, Hang Jiang, Paul Pu Liang, Jinhua Zhao, Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson
* equal contribution
Selected Honors & Awards [click to show/hide]
- Norman Foster Scholar ('23)
- Princeton Wu Fellowship ('23) (Awarded, declined to attend MIT)
- National Scholarship ('21, '19) (Top 0.2% nationwide)