I am currently a PhD student in the Research Training Group “Neuroexplicit Models” at Saarland University, supervised by Prof. Dr. Alexander Koller.
Previously, I obtained a Master’s degree in Computational Linguistics from the Institute for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Peking University Law School.
From June to August 2024, I worked as a research assistant at the XLANG Lab at the University of Hong Kong, focusing on VLM agents and their applications in executable, real-world computer environments. From October 2024 to July 2025, I was a student assistant at the MaiNLP Lab at LMU Munich.
My research interests include faithful, verifiable and efficient logical reasoning and planning, as well as their applications in high-stakes domains.
🔥 News
- 09.2025: 🎉 I started my PhD journey at RTG Neuroexplicit Models. Excited for this new chapter.
📝 Publications
- EMNLP 2025 Multilingual Representation Learning Workshop: Relevant for the Right Reasons? Investigating Lexical Biases in Zero-Shot and Instruction-Tuned Rerankers, Yuchen Mao, Barbara Plank, Robert Litschko
- ICLR 2025 Spotlight: AgentTrek: Agent Trajectory Synthesis via Guiding Replay with Web Tutorials, Yiheng Xu, Dunjie Lu, Zhennan Shen, Junli Wang, Zekun Wang, Yuchen Mao, Caiming Xiong, Tao Yu
- NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight: Spider2-V: How Far Are Multimodal Agents From Automating Data Science and Engineering Workflows?, Ruisheng Cao, Fangyu Lei, Haoyuan Wu, Jixuan Chen, Yeqiao Fu, Hongcheng Gao, Xinzhuang Xiong, Hanchong Zhang, Yuchen Mao, Wenjing Hu, Tianbao Xie, Hongshen Xu, Danyang Zhang, Sida Wang, Ruoxi Sun, Pengcheng Yin, Caiming Xiong, Ansong Ni, Qian Liu, Victor Zhong, Lu Chen, Kai Yu, Tao Yu
📖 Education
- 09.2025 - Present, PhD student at Saarland University, Germany
- 10.2023 - 08.2025, Master of Science in Computational Linguistics, Minor in Computer Science, at LMU Munich, Germany
- 02.2024 - 06.2024, Postgraduate Exchange Program in Information Technology, at University of Melbourne, Australia
- 09.2018 - 07.2022, Bachelor of Law at Peking University, China
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 02.2024 – Prosa Stipendium, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- 06.2022 – Excellent Graduates of Peking University, Peking University
- 2018 - 2022 – University-level Merit Student, Peking University