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Jerry Huang

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


About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Julia Hockenmaier. Previously, I was an M.S. student advised by Prof. Tong Zhang, and before that I earned my B.S. in Computer Science at Duke University.

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

Education

Selected Publications

  1. FinancialAuditBench completion leaderboard showing the top five models and their strict pass rates arXiv
    FinancialAuditBench: Benchmark Construction under Differential Privacy Using Real-World Priors
    Jerry Huang, Sarvesh Babu, Matt Van Buren, Alexander Wang, Pranav Pillai, Arush Jain, James P. Burton, Julia Hockenmaier
    arXiv preprint, 2026
    PDF arXiv Project Page
  2. Lean4Agent framework with three layers of workflow and trajectory verification and LeanEvolve workflow refinement NeurIPS
    Lean4Agent: Formal Modeling and Verification for Agent Workflow and Trajectory
    Ruida Wang, Jerry Huang, Pengcheng Wang, Xuanqing Liu, Luyang Kong, Tong Zhang
    To appear at NeurIPS 2026
    PDF arXiv
  3. Contextual Relevance and Adaptive Sampling for LLM-Based Document Reranking ACL
    Contextual Relevance and Adaptive Sampling for LLM-Based Document Reranking
    Jerry Huang, Siddarth Madala, Cheng Niu, Julia Hockenmaier, Tong Zhang
    ACL 2026 Main Conference
    PDF arXiv
  4. RAG-RL: Advancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation via RL and Curriculum Learning 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
    Findings of EACL 2026
    PDF arXiv
  5. GUIDE: Towards Scalable Advising for Research Ideas ACL
    GUIDE: Towards Scalable Advising for Research Ideas
    Yaowenqi Liu, Bingxu Meng, Rui Pan, Yuxing Liu, Jerry Huang, Jiaxuan You, Tong Zhang
    ACL 2026 Main Conference
    PDF arXiv
  6. AgentSPEX architecture showing agent definitions, workflow step types, and the agent harness with a sandbox environment and durability system arXiv
    AgentSPEX: An Agent SPecification and EXecution Language
    Pengcheng Wang, Jerry Huang, Jiarui Yao, Rui Pan, Peizhi Niu, Yaowenqi Liu, Ruida Wang, Renhao Lu, Yuwei Guo, Tong Zhang
    arXiv preprint
    PDF arXiv