Howdy! Iām Weijia Zhang
I am an incoming M.S. student in Computer Science at Yale University (2026 - 2028), admitted to the (Thesis Track) M.S. in Computer Science with Full Scholarship.
I graduated from UIUC in Math + Computer Science with the 2026 C.W. Gear Outstanding Undergraduate Student award, as one of two annual recipients.
Currently, I am a Machine Learning Engineer Intern at TikTok working on self-evolving agents, and a research assistant in UIUC U Lab on LLM agents, multimodal agents, and agentic RL, advised by Prof. Jiaxuan You.
Research
My research studies reliable self-improving agents for long-horizon interactive tasks. I explore how agents can learn from interaction traces and failures, acquire reusable memory and skills, and improve through inference-time evolution and SFT/RL across coding, computer-use, and multimodal environments.
- Self-Evolving Agents: recursive self-improvement (RSI), self-evolving harnesses, memory and skills, and multi-agent evolution
- Multimodal Agents: game-development agents, GUI and computer-use agents, and agentic world models
- Agent Post-Training: SFT and RL for coding agents and long-horizon agents
News
- 2026.08: š My first-author paper CUADebug was accepted to EMNLP 2026! šāØ
- 2026.06: š Joined TikTok as a Machine Learning Engineer Intern working on self-evolving agents! š¤āØ
- 2026.05: šš Graduated from UIUC in Math + Computer Science with the 2026 C.W. Gear Outstanding Undergraduate Student award! š
- 2026.01: šš Paper on bias inheritance was accepted to ACL 2026 as an Oral! šāØ
- 2025.10: š SeeingEye was released as an arXiv preprint and is under review at EMNLP 2026! šš
- 2025.07: š Joined Microsoft Research Asia as a research intern! š¬š¼
Gamedev
Beyond research, I am a passoinate indie game developer, feel free to check my game work on the game page. I am also willing to discuss the future of AI X Game.
Education
Sep 2026 May 2028
Thesis Track with Full Scholarship
Aug 2022 May 2026
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2026 C.W. Gear Outstanding Undergraduate Student, one of two annual recipients; 2025 Dean's List
Work Experience
Jun 2026 Present
Project lead for TikTok's RSI/Self-Evolving Agent framework, built from 0 to 1.
Jul 2025 Sep 2025
Built the Excel Coding Agent data engine and post-training pipeline for Excel Copilot's code agent.
Aug 2024 Sep 2024
Built cross-platform performance analysis and Unity memory-profiling tools for WeChat Mini Programs.
May 2023 Jul 2023
Reborn Network
Built real-time embodied role-playing agents in Unity VR games.
my schedule
Feel free to check my availability. Times shown in Eastern Time.