Jerry Huang

Ph.D. Student · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Jerry Huang

Ph.D. Student
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
jerry8 (at) illinois.edu


About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), advised by Prof. Julia Hockenmaier. I’m interested in generative AI models grounded in real-world and physical world priors. During my Master’s, I was advised by Prof. Tong Zhang.

I've worked at Modus·NewsBreak·VectorShift·Old Mission·Vertex·Optiver·Amazon

Education

Selected Publications

  1. ACL
    Contextual Relevance: Modeling Context-Conditioned Relevance for Improving Document Reranking
    Jerry Huang, Siddarth Madala, Cheng Niu, Julia Hockenmaier, Tong Zhang
    ACL 2026 Main Conference
    PDF Project Page

  2. ACL
    GUIDE: Towards Scalable Advising for Research Ideas
    Yaowenqi Liu, BingXu Meng, Rui Pan, Jerry Huang, Tong Zhang
    ACL 2026 Main Conference
    PDF Project Page

  3. EACL
    RAG-RL: Advancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation via RL and Curriculum Learning
    Jerry Huang, Siddarth Madala, Risham Sidhu, Cheng Niu, Hao Peng, Julia Hockenmaier, Tong Zhang
    EACL 2026 Findings
    PDF Project Page


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