Research
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 thought 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 20251Position 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 LAW2Workshop 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