I study the loop between social systems and the people inside them: systems shape people, and people reshape systems. And what I cannot simulate, I do not understand.
Currently, I focus on building the science of social simulation:
(i) why it matters (SimThought) → (ii) how to evaluate (HugAgent, SSA) → (iii) how to build (ongoing).
Recent Publications [click to show/hide]
Simulating Society Requires Simulating Thought
NeurIPS 2025 Position Track (acc rate < 6%)
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)
tl;dr · arXiv · Project
HugAgent: A Human Simulation Benchmark for Individual-Level Reasoning
EMNLP 2026 Main, NeurIPS 2025 Workshops (Oral1PersonaLLM: Workshop on LLM Persona Modeling · Spotlight2LAW: Workshop 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)
tl;dr · arXiv · Project · Benchmark · Chatbot
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)