Zengqing Wu

Biography

Zengqing Wu is a master’s student in the Graduate School of Informatics at Kyoto University. His main research focus is computational social science, especially the application of large language models in computer simulation.

He serves as a research associate / technical staff in the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at Osaka University, under the guidance of his supervisor, Prof. Chuan Xiao. He is also a part-time lecturer for the mathematical modeling course at the Computer Center of China Welfare Institute Children’s Palace.

Research Interests

• Computer Simulation: Agent-Based Modeling, Large Language Models in Computer Simulation
• Computational Social Science: Complex Systems, Social Simulation
• Education: Mathematical Modeling, Teaching and Learning Assessment

News

• [Sep. 2024] Shall We Team Up: Following the SABM framework, we discovered the spontaneous cooperation of LLM agents in competing environments. Source codes for case studies are available here. Our paper is to appear at EMNLP 2024 (Findings).
• [Sep. 2024] LLMob: As a joint work with the University of Tokyo, we developed an LLM agent framework for the generation of personal activity trajectories. This work will appear at NeurIPS 2024. Source code is here.
• [Jan. 2024] Our paper, which investigates the application of Shannon entropy in assessing students’ abstraction levels to optimize students’ learning process, has been accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Education (ToE).
• [Nov. 2023] SABM: We developed a computer simulation framework that incorporates LLMs into agent-based modeling. We released the slides and source codes.

Publications

A complete list of research papers is available at: Publications

Education

• M.Eng. in Informatics, Kyoto University, 2025
  Supervised by Prof. Takayuki Ito

• B.A. in Human Sciences, Osaka University, 2023
  Supervised by Prof. Christian Etzrodt and Prof. Chuan Xiao

Awards

Personal Awards

• 2024 NEC Corporation Award, DEIM 2024 / 第22回日本データベース学会年次大会スポンサー賞 日本電気株式会社賞
  Supervised by Prof. Chuan Xiao
• 2022 Teraura Sayoko Scholarship / 寺浦さよ子記念奨学会奨学金
• 2020 Meritorious in Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM)
  Supervised by Prof. Koichi Fukase
• 2018 Top 10 Outstanding Youth in Shanghai Changning District / 上海市长宁区第四届“长宁好青年”
• 2018 Finalist in High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HiMCM)
• 2015 First Prize of National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces, Shanghai, China (NOIP)
• 2013 First Prize of Japan Sansu Olympic

Supervised Student Awards

• 2021 Outstanding in the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IMMC) with co-supervisor Mr. Linfeng Dong
• 2022 Meritorious in High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HiMCM)
• 2024 Meritorious in the International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IMMC) with co-supervisor Mr. Linfeng Dong

Services

International Conference

• Reviewer: ICLR 2024 Workshop LLMAgents, NIPS 2024, ICLR 2025, AISTATS 2025
• External Reviewer: CIKM 2022, DASFAA 2023, KDD 2023, ADMA 2023, APWeb-WAIM 2024, EMNLP 2024, ADMA 2024

Journal

• Reviewer: IEEE Access

Professional Memberships

• The Database Society of Japan