Jiatan Huang

Jiatan Huang

Ph.D. Student · Computer Science · University of Connecticut

Hello, I'm Jiatan Huang, a second-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Connecticut, advised by Prof. Chuxu Zhang. Before joining UConn, I earned my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. My research focuses on two directions.

Agentic AI

I build LLM-based agents and multi-agent systems that can reason, collaborate, and use external knowledge to solve complex tasks. I am especially interested in making these systems more reliable, efficient, and adaptive.

AI for Healthcare

I develop AI for medicine and healthcare, from large language models and benchmarks to knowledge-grounded reasoning. My goal is to build trustworthy AI that helps address real-world health challenges.

Beyond these two directions, I am broadly interested in graph neural networks and information retrieval. For more details, please see my CV.

Actively seeking a Research Scientist internship opportunity for Summer 2027.

Education

2025.08 – 2030.06expected
2021.09 – 2024.05

Publications

* equal contribution. Complete list on Google Scholar.

Agentic AI 4

  1. arXiv preprint 2026 Counterfactual Graph for Multi-Agent LLM Calibration

    Jiatan Huang, Mingchen Li, Ziming Li, Sunjae Kwon, Hong Yu, Chuxu Zhang

  2. arXiv preprint 2026 EvolveRouter: Co-Evolving Routing and Prompt for Multi-Agent Question Answering

    Jiatan Huang, Zheyuan Zhang, Kaiwen Shi, Yanfang Ye, Chuxu Zhang

  3. NeurIPS 2026 Same Signal, Opposite Meaning: Direction-Informed Adaptive Learning for LLM Agents

    Ziming Li, Jiatan Huang, Xiaoguang Guo, Guilin Wang, Chuxu Zhang

  4. NeurIPS 2026 RICE-PO: Turning Retrieval Interactions into Credit Signals for Reasoning Agents

    Mingchen Li*, Hansi Zeng*, Zhuo Qian*, Jiatan Huang, Sunjae Kwon, Hamed Zamani, Hong Yu

AI for Healthcare 6

  1. ACL 2026 Findings RiTeK: A Dataset for Large Language Models Complex Reasoning over Textual Knowledge Graphs in Medicine

    Jiatan Huang, Mingchen Li, Zonghai Yao, Dawei Li, Yuxin Zhang, Zhichao Yang, Yongkang Xiao, Feiyun Ouyang, Xiaohan Li, Shuo Han, Hong Yu

  2. TMLR GLEN-Bench: A Graph-Language based Benchmark for Nutritional Health

    Jiatan Huang, Zheyuan Zhang, Tianyi Ma, Mingchen Li, Yaning Zheng, Yanfang Ye, Chuxu Zhang

  3. KDD 2026 OPBench: A Graph Benchmark to Combat the Opioid Crisis

    Tianyi Ma, Yiyang Li, Yiyue Qian, Jiatan Huang, Zheyuan Zhang, Zehong Wang, Chuxu Zhang, Yanfang Ye

  4. ACL 2026 Findings Efficient and Effective Internal Memory Retrieval for LLM-Based Healthcare Prediction

    Mingchen Li, Jiatan Huang, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu

  5. npj Digital Medicine CancerLLM: A Large Language Model in Cancer Domain

    Mingchen Li, Zaifu Zhan, Jiatan Huang, Jeremy Yeung, Kai Ding, Anne Blaes, Steven Johnson, Hongfang Liu, Hua Xu, Rui Zhang

  6. Science Advances Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models in Biomedical NLP: Application, Robustness, and Self-Awareness

    Mingchen Li, Zaifu Zhan, Han Yang, Yongkang Xiao, Huixue Zhou, Jiatan Huang, Rui Zhang

Retrieval & Graph Learning 2

  1. NeurIPS 2026 In-Context Optimization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Gradient-Descent Perspective

    Mingchen Li*, Jiatan Huang*, Chuxu Zhang, Liang Zhao, Hong Yu

  2. EMNLP 2026 Findings Where LLM Annotators Fail: Label-Free Learning on Graphs with LLMs

    Safal Thapaliya, Jiatan Huang, Chuxu Zhang

Selected Awards

2026
UConn SoC Predoctoral Fellowship
2026
NSF ACCESS Grant

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer
NeurIPS, PAKDD, ACML
Journal Reviewer
TMLR, Information Fusion, ACM TIST

Experience

2023.05 – 2023.12
SWE Co-OpAtriCure, Inc. · Minnetonka, MN