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Education, research experience, publications, projects, and technical skills.
Contact Information
| Name | Haotian Zhong |
| haotian7.zhong@gmail.com | |
| Website | https://htzhong.top |
Experience
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2026 - present Santa Barbara, CA
Research Intern — AI Multibit Robust Watermark
University of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor: Prof. Yuheng Bu; ARR under submission
- Developed robust multi-bit text watermarking for content attribution, enabling identifier recovery after paraphrasing without access to the original text or watermark-specific training.
- Achieved 99.83% watermark-bit injection success and 99.70% exact recovery of 32-bit identifiers in 10,000 resampled trials under the evaluated rewriting protocol.
- Recovered identifiers from all 20 evaluated Wikipedia and arXiv documents after rewriting at a target code rate of 0.2.
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2026 - present Beijing, China
Undergraduate Researcher — Defense Against Prompt Injection in LLM Agents
Tsinghua University, College of AI
First author; advisor: Prof. Yinpeng Dong
- Proposed a non-intrusive inference-time defense for indirect prompt injection by detecting intent drift around tool calls and tool responses.
- Built a Qwen3-8B tool-calling agent pipeline with hooks over the final four transformer layers, paired clean and injected trajectories, contrastive probes, and automatic attack-success labeling.
- Constructed a 1,220-task benchmark and a 4,000-case cross-domain suite spanning ten application domains.
- Automated injection generation and genetic search over a 3,072-configuration strategy space; research in progress.
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2026 - 2026 Remote
Research Intern — LLM Agent Security
Tencent Xuanwu Lab
- Explored early defense ideas and used Tencent-provided compute resources to support large-scale experiments for the Tsinghua-led project.
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2025 - 2026 Beijing, China
AI4Science Research Assistant — Crystal-Structure LLM Post-Training
Tsinghua University, Department of Computer Science and Technology
Advisor: Prof. Yang Liu
- Contributed to a three-stage LLM post-training workflow covering scientific-data preparation, supervised fine-tuning, and reinforcement-learning-based optimization.
- Collected and cleaned crystal-structure data and aligned prompts, model inputs, and target outputs for training and evaluation.
- Designed reasoning-oriented reward functions and explored reward shaping and prompt-alignment strategies.
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Education
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2024 - present Beijing, China
B.S.; B.Eng.
Tsinghua University
Mathematics and Physics; Software Engineering
- Dual-degree program, GPA 3.74/4.0
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2027 San Diego, CA
University of California, San Diego
UCEAP Exchange Program
- Incoming UCEAP exchange student for the Winter and Spring quarters of 2027 (two quarters).
- Selected for Tsinghua University’s sponsored exchange program, with one seat per department.
Publications
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2026 Understanding Is Done Early: A Depth Division of Labor in Large Language Models and Its Use for Unbounded-Context Memory
* Co-second authors. Co-developed CoMem, a Qwen3-8B memory architecture that caches intermediate residual states and recomputes query-conditioned upper layers for efficient long-context memory.
Projects
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2026 - 2026 FinAgent OS: Multi-Agent Wealth Management System
Group project for the Software Engineering course. GitHub repository
- Built a LangGraph- and FastAPI-based multi-agent system for user profiling, asset screening, market timing, critic review, and compliance auditing across 54 instruments in nine asset classes.
- Implemented Markowitz optimization, risk parity, Monte Carlo simulation, VaR and CVaR, stress testing, backtesting, and performance attribution.
- Integrated AkShare and yfinance data, persistent SQLite sessions, Docker deployment, and GitHub Actions CI while maintaining a 269-test passing baseline.
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2025 - 2026 TASIVE: Transformer-Based Siamese Signature Verification
Lead developer; major project for the Deep Learning course. GitHub repository
- Developed a Swin-T Siamese network with a lightweight MLP projection head, L2-normalized 128-dimensional embeddings, and a scaled cosine binary-cross-entropy objective.
- Designed a strict writer-disjoint train and validation split and evaluated on a fixed all-pairs validation set of 5,748 signature pairs.
- Achieved 99.98% accuracy, 1.0000 ROC-AUC, and 0.0000 EER, outperforming a reproduced SigNet baseline under the same protocol.
Technical Skills
Programming: Python, C++, SQL
Machine Learning and Research: PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, CUDA, LLM post-training, agent evaluation, contrastive learning
Systems and Data: Linux, Git, NumPy, Pandas, Weights & Biases, Docker, SQLite, Slurm, LaTeX
Languages: Mandarin Chinese (native); English (TOEFL iBT 100, Speaking 26)
Awards and Competitions
- Tsinghua High-Performance Computing Competition 2025: Team ranked 10th of 40 teams.