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Education, research experience, publications, projects, and technical skills.

Contact Information

Name Haotian Zhong
Email haotian7.zhong@gmail.com
Website https://htzhong.top

Experience

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 2024 - present

    Beijing, China

    B.S.; B.Eng.
    Tsinghua University
    Mathematics and Physics; Software Engineering
    • Dual-degree program, GPA 3.74/4.0
  • 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

Projects

  • 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.
  • 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.