Zheye Deng 邓哲也

About Me

Hi! I am Zheye Deng (邓哲也). I am a third-year Ph.D. student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology advised by Prof. Yangqiu Song. I received my B.Sc. in Computer Science from Peking University, where I was advised by Prof. Ming Zhang.

My research interest mainly focus on the integration of graph structures and natural language in machine learning, including the construction of large-scale knowledge graphs, as well as extracting and integrating structural information from texts to enhance the ability to answer complex queries. Currently, I am investigating LLM-based agent reinforcement learning and challenges in asynchronous RL.

Education

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Sept. 2022 - Now

Peking University

B.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology, Sept. 2016 - Jun. 2020

Experience

Amazon Stores Foundational AI, Amazon Inc.

Applied Scientist Intern, Jun. 2025 - Now

Megvii Infrastructure Team, Megvii Technology Co., Ltd.

Research and Development Engineer, Jun. 2020 - Aug. 2022

UCSB NLP Group, University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Assistant, Jun. 2019 - Sept. 2019

Douyin Data Team, Bytedance Technology Co., Ltd.

Research and Development Engineer Intern, Jun. 2018 - Oct. 2018

Awards

EMNLP 2024 Outstanding Paper Award (2024)
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship (2022 - 2026)
HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students (2024 - 2025)
HKUST RedBird Academic Excellence Award for Continuing PhD Students (2023 - 2024)
HKUST RedBird PhD Scholarship (2022)
Peking University Third-class Scholarship (2019)
Third Runner-up in WSDM Cup (2018)
Second Prize in Peking University Programming Contest (2017)
Gold Prize in Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (2015)
Silver Prize in National Olympiad in Informatics (2015)

Contact Me

You can reach me at zdengah [at] cse [dot] ust [dot] hk.