I completed my B.S. in Computer Science and Technology at Central South University (2022-2026), advised by Alex Jinpeng Wang and Libo Qin. I will join The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as an MPhil student in Fall 2026.
My research interests lie in large language models, agents, reward modeling, and data construction for multimodal generation. I was a research assistant at THUNLP, advised by Prof. Maosong Sun and Prof. Zhiyuan Liu, and I am currently a research intern at Shanghai AI Laboratory, advised by Prof. Yihao Liu.
[07/31] Released IdeaFactory, an autonomous research ideation system with adaptive branching chain search.
[07/29] Released Your LLM, Your Style, a framework for measuring and controlling LLM behavioral modes.
[07/16] Released See2Think, a benchmark for diagnosing intermediate visual state use in multimodal models.
[06/26] Released DataEvolver, a self-evolving multi-agent data construction framework.
[01/25] One paper accepted by ACL 2025.
Siyu Yan, Zhuoran Yan, Haiying Xu, Panhao Zhou, Jingyu Chen, Chenhao Ji, Shuo Cao, Yongheng Zhang, Haoze Liu, Siyu Zhang, Xiwen Gu, Yihao Liu, Alex Jinpeng Wang
Preprint 2026 [New]
project page / paper / code
Siyu Yan, Yizhen Gao, Yilin Wang, Dongxing Mao, Alex Jinpeng Wang
arXiv 2026 [New]
project page / arxiv / code
Haiying Xu*, Zixuan Wang*, Siyu Yan*, Haoze Liu, Shuo Cao, Siyu Zhang, Qinghua Xing, Chenhan Ji, Yihao Liu, Chengwei Qin
* Equal contribution ยท AAAI 2027 Conference Submission [New]
Yu Xia, Jingru Fan, Weize Chen, Siyu Yan, Xin Cong, Zhong Zhang, Yaxi Lu, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
ACL 2025
Haoze Liu, Run Liu, Haiying Xu, Jiahui Han, Siyu Yan, Siyu Zhang, Huiqi Deng, Guanchu Wang, Na Zou
AAAI 2027 Conference Submission [New]
Research Assistant, advised by Prof. Maosong Sun and Prof. Zhiyuan Liu (Jul. 2024 - Mar. 2026)
Research Scientist Intern, advised by Prof. Yihao Liu (Apr. 2026 - Present)
Team Leader (Winter 2024)
Creator (2026)
Total of 11 national-level honors, all as first author or project lead. Selected awards:
A project-oriented virtual simulation platform for engineering training, designed to support interactive learning, practice workflows, and competition-oriented demonstrations. This project was funded by the first batch of Hunan Province College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fund.
President, Apple Lab, Central South University.
Founder & Lead, SmartCloud Technology Team, Central South University.