Jiayi Zhang

I am a graduate student in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, previously advised by Prof. Weiyan Shi.

Before that, I was an undergraduate student at University of Michigan (UMich), with a honors major in Computer Science and two minors in Mathematics and Linguistics. I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Lu Wang at LAUNCH Lab. I was also privileged to work closely with Prof. Zhijing Jin and Prof. Rada Mihalcea.

My research interest lies in build AI systems that achieve bidirectional alignment with humans and can co-improve over the long term in challenging domains. Currently, I’m particularly interested in:

• Understanding and explaining complex model behaviors in human-interpretable ways (aligning Humans $\rightarrow$ AI);
• Building human-like LLM-based user simulators to bridge RL training with real-world interaction (aligning AI $\rightarrow$ Humans);
• LLMs for Scientific Discovery and multi-modal modeling and reasoning.

I am seeking a research internship for Summer 2026. Please feel free to contact me if you believe there is a potential fit.