Zheye Deng

Zheye Deng

PhD Student @ HKUST

Zheye Deng 邓哲也

About Me

Hi! I am Zheye Deng (邓哲也). I am a fourth-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.

I have worked on structured knowledge and reasoning, from constructing large-scale knowledge graphs to extracting and integrating structural information from text. My current research interests lie in LLM post-training and agentic reinforcement learning, where I develop learning agents that combine structured reasoning and tool use to tackle complex decision-making and problem-solving tasks.

Education

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Ph.D. in Computer ScienceSept. 2022 – Now

Peking University · B.Sc. in Computer ScienceSept. 2016 – Jun. 2020

Experience

Amazon Stores Foundational AI, Amazon · Applied Scientist Intern · Palo Alto, CAMay 2026 – Aug. 2026

Alimama (Search & Advertising), Alibaba Group · Research Scientist Intern · BeijingJan. 2026 – Apr. 2026

Amazon Stores Foundational AI, Amazon · Applied Scientist Intern · Palo Alto, CAJun. 2025 – Dec. 2025

Megvii Infrastructure Team, Megvii · R&D Engineer · BeijingJul. 2020 – Aug. 2022

UCSB NLP Group, UC Santa Barbara · Research Assistant · Santa Barbara, CAJun. 2019 – Sept. 2019

Douyin Data Team, ByteDance · R&D Engineer Intern · BeijingJun. 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.