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 technical assistant 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.
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Research Interests
- Computer Simulation: Agent-Based Modeling, Large Language Models in Computer Simulation
- Computational Social Science: Complex Systems, Network Science
- Education: Mathematical Modeling, Teaching and Learning Assessment
Education
- M.Eng. in Informatics, Kyoto University, 2025
- B.A. in Human Sciences, Osaka University, 2023
News
- [Feb. 2024] LLMob: As a joint work with the University of Tokyo, we developed an LLM agent framework for the generation of personal activity trajectories.
- [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
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arXiv
Zengqing Wu, Run Peng, Xu Han, Shuyuan Zheng, Yixin Zhang, Chuan Xiao*
arXiv, 2023.
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IEEE-TE
Zengqing Wu*, Huizhong Liu, Chuan Xiao*
IEEE Transactions on Education (IEEE-TE), 2024.
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arXiv
Jiawei Wang, Renhe Jiang*, Chuang Yang, Zengqing Wu, Makoto Onizuka, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Chuan Xiao
arXiv, 2024.
A complete list of research papers is available at: Publications
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
- 2022 Teraura Sayoko Scholarship / 寺浦さよ子記念奨学会奨学金
- 2018 Top 10 Outstanding Youth in Shanghai Changning District
- 2018 Finalist in High School Mathematical Contest in Modeling (HiMCM)
- 2015 First Prize of National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces, Shanghai, China (NOIP)
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)
Services
International Conference
- Reviewer: ICLR 2024 Workshop LLMAgents
- External Reviewer: CIKM 2022, DASFAA 2023, KDD 2023, ADMA 2023
Journal
Professional Memberships
- The Database Society of Japan