STEVEN HUANG

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. huangjin@umich.edu

Hi! I am Steven (Jin) Huang, a third-year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan in the Foreseer Group, advised by Prof. Qiaozhu Mei. My research interests include Mid/Post-training for scientific discovery (SciLitLLM), Auto-research Agent (Idea2Plan), Foundation Models for Social Simulation (BehaviorBench).

Previously, I completed bachelor’s degree at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I’ve also had the privilege of working with Prof. Jiaqi Ma and Prof. Danai Koutra. I interned at Microsoft Research in Redmond, DP Technology and Intel.

Selected Publications

  1. arXiv
    BehaviorBench: Benchmarking Foundation Models for Behavioral Science Tasks
    Jin Huang*, Yutong Xie*, Wanli Song, Xingjian Zhang, Walter Yuan, Matthew O. Jackson, and Qiaozhu Mei
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.24162, 2026
  2. arXiv
    ECP-Bench: Benchmarking and Learning Entertainment Content Promotion with Foundation Models
    Hyomin Kim*, Bowen Chen*, Jin Huang*, Zhao Wang, Qiaozhu Mei, and Shingo Takamatsu
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.22150, 2026
    * Equal contribution
  3. arXiv
    Idea2Plan: Exploring AI-Powered Research Planning
    Jin Huang, Silviu Cucerzan, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, and Ryen W. White
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.24891, 2025
  4. ICLR 2025
    SciLitLLM: How to Adapt LLMs for Scientific Literature Understanding
    Sihang Li*, Jin Huang*, Jiaxi Zhuang, Yaorui Shi, Xiaochen Cai, Mingjun Xu, Xiang Wang, Linfeng Zhang, Guolin Ke, and Hengxing Cai
    International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025
  5. TMLR 2024
    Can LLMs Effectively Leverage Graph Structural Information through Prompts, and Why?
    Jin Huang, Xingjian Zhang, Qiaozhu Mei, and Jiaqi Ma
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024