Researcher / Systems Builder

Hangxiao Zhu

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
Texas A&M University

Building intelligent agents and data-driven systems for scientific discovery.

Portrait of Hangxiao Zhu
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Department of Computer Science & Engineering

About & Education

Howdy! I'm Hangxiao Zhu, a Computer Science Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Texas A&M University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Yu Zhang. My research interests center on Agent System, Data Mining, and AI for Science. I earned my Master's degree from Washington University in St. Louis under the invaluable mentorship of Prof. Alvitta Ottley. Before that, I earned my Bachelor's degree from Ohio State University. I also gained research-intern experience with Prof. Ming Yin at Purdue University.

Beyond Research

Outside of academics, I'm a huge fan of football and basketball, and I often visit r/OhioStateFootball, r/Lakers, and r/Texans.

Education / Mentorship

  1. Reveille, the Texas A&M University mascot

    Ph.D. / Current

    Texas A&M University

    Computer Science · Advisor: Prof. Yu Zhang

  2. Washington University Bears mascot

    Master's

    Washington University in St. Louis

    Mentor: Prof. Alvitta Ottley

  3. Ohio State Buckeye mascot

    Bachelor's

    Ohio State University

  4. Research Internship

    Purdue University

    Mentor: Prof. Ming Yin

News

  1. — SciImpact accepted to Findings of ACL 2026.
  2. — MemeBridge accepted to KDD 2026, Datasets and Benchmarks Track.

Publications

  1. Working paper / preprint

    Inference-Time Control for Trustworthy Large Language Models.

    Yuyang Bai, Zheyuan Liu, Han Yan, Zhangchen Xu, Yixin Wan, Canyu Chen, Zehong Wang, Xiangchi Yuan, Yue Huang, Guangyao Dou, Yuji Zhang, Hangxiao Zhu, Zhuofeng Li, Manling Li, Xiangliang Zhang, Mohit Bansal, Sanmi Koyejo, Kai-Wei Chang, Yu Zhang, Meng Jiang

    Preprints.org manuscript.