Hi!
I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), under the supervision of Prof. Jiawei Han.
I received my Bachelor's degree from the IEEE honored class, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2022. In my undergraduate years, I was advised by Prof. Hai Zhao and collaborated with Zhuosheng Zhang at SJTU.
Feel free to contact me if you want to discuss or collaborate! Research Interests
My research interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing and machine learning.
Generally, I’m interested in the following:
Post-training of LLMs in a data-centric sense;
Enhancing complex reasoning ability of LLMs and LLM agents;
AI for Science specifically in the domain of chemistry;
Recent News
01/2025: Two papers on AI software engineering and chemistry reasoning are accepted to ICLR 2025.
12/2024: Our tutorial on “Retrieval and Structuring Augmented Generation with Large Language Models for Web Applications” is accepted by WWW 2025.
09/2024: One paper on speculative decoding is accepted to EMNLP 2024 Findings. See you in Miami!
05/2024: OnEFET is accept to KDD 2024.
Recent Publications
Please see my Google Scholar profile for the full list.
RepoGraph: Enhancing AI Software Engineering with Repository-level Code Graph
Siru Ouyang, Wenhao Yu, Kaixin Ma, Zilin Xiao, Zhihan Zhang, Mengzhao Jia, Jiawei Han, Hongming Zhang, Dong Yu
ChemAgent: Self-updating Library in Large Language Models Improves Chemical Reasoning
Xiangru Tang, Tianyu Hu, Muyang Ye, Yanjun Shao, Xunjian Yin, Siru Ouyang, Wangchunshu Zhou, Pan Lu, Zhuosheng Zhang, Yilun Zhao, Arman Cohan, Mark Gerstein
ICLR 2025. [Paper]
Temperature-Centric Investigation of Speculative Decoding with Knowledge Distillation
Siru Ouyang, Shuohang Wang, Minhao Jiang, Ming Zhong, Donghan Yu, Jiawei Han, Yelong Shen
Research Experiences
Google Cloud AI Research, 05/2025 – 08/2025Research intern, supervised by Dr. Jun Yan.
Microsoft Research (Redmond) 05/2023 – 12/2023Research intern, supervised by Dr. Shuohang Wang.
Georgia Institute of Technology, 06/2021 – 11/2021Research assistant, supervised by Prof. Diyi Yang.
Selected Honors & Awards
Richard T. Cheng Endowed Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 2022
Outstanding Graduate at SJTU, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2022
Rongchang Scientific and Technological Innovation Scholarship (Rank 1st in the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering), Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2021
SenseTime Scholarship (31 out of all students for artificial intelligence in China), SenseTime Incorporation. 2021
Google Women Tech Makers Scholarship (110 out of 2800 students around the whole Pacific Rim), Google. 2020
SJTU Academic Scholarship (5% of all the students in the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering), Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 2019 and 2020
Miscellaneous
I love playing the piano. I have been practicing the piano ever since I was 5 (I still try to find time practicing in my Ph.D. journey). I am a crazy fan of Frédéric Chopin, and I am also fond of music pieces arranged by Animenz.
Some of my repertoires include Ballade No.1 Op.23, Polonaise in A-flat major, Op.53, My Dearest, Unravel, and Prelude g-moll, op.23, No.5
I have a cat Turing.
Updated 3/3/2025.