Howdy! I’m Charlie Zhang!

• CS+Math @ UIUC

• GPA: 3.86/4.0 (2025 Dean’s List)

• NLP Researcher & Game Developer

I am an undergraduate student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. I am currently advised by Prof. Jiaxuan You. Prior to that, I was a research intern at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA).

My hobby also includes game development, and I am previously worked as a game developer at NetEase and Tencent. You can check my publications in the publications page and game projects in the projects page.

Research

My research interests are in the field of LLM Agents, especially in next-generation AI agents that seamlessly bridge virtual and physical worlds through socially intelligent, tool-agnostic, and ethically grounded architectures, including:

• Multi-Modal Agents (memory, reasoning, tool-use, multi-agents, etc.)
• Conversational AI

Cooperate with me!

Also some random research ideas:

Feel free to reach me via email.