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About me

I am currently a PhD student in College of AI, Tsinghua University, supervised by Lu Mi. I am also a member from MAIC team, aiming at next-generation of AI empowered education, leading by Jifan Yu.

My research spans AI, Cognitive science, and AI for education, including human–AI cognitive alignment, agentic research for brain discovery, and human-centric AI systems for education. For a broader scope, I seek to understand the similarities and differences between human and artificial cognition and intelligence, examine how human cognition changes in the age of AI, and use these insights to guide human–AI cognitive collaboration, augmentation, and co-evolution toward human-centric AI.

I also lead BrainPilot, a fully open-source multi-agent platform for trustworthy brain science research, together with its evaluation benchmark, BrainPilotBench.

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Education

I am currently a Ph.D. student in the College of AI at Tsinghua University. I received my M.Eng. and B.Eng. degrees from the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Beihang University in 2025 and 2022, respectively. IELTS: 7.5.

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Talks

  • "Research Topics on Cognitive Alignment between LLMs and Brain" at PhD student forum, SMP 2025
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Research

BrainPilot system architecture

BrainPilot: Automating Brain Discovery with Agentic Research

Haoxuan Li, Tianci Gao, Jianhe Li, Yang Fan, Runze Shi, Weiran Wang, Tianxiang Zhao, Zezhao Wu, Xiaoyang Jiang, Qihui Zhang, Jia Li, Xiao Xiao, Kai Du, Xiaoxuan Jia, Chao Xie, Lu Mi

arXiv preprint, 2026

BrainPilot is a fully open-source multi-agent system for trustworthy brain science research, with traceable execution, agent-verified results, and the BrainPilotBench-v0 benchmark.

Graph of Trace framework overview

Graph of Trace: Visualizing Execution Traces of Scientific Agents

Tianci Gao, Haoxuan Li, Jianhe Li, Tianxiang Zhao, Runze Shi, Weiran Wang, Zezhao Wu, Lu Mi

ACL 2026 System Demonstrations

Graph of Trace records fine-grained execution events as real-time visual traces, making scientific-agent workflows easier to inspect and review.

SimPBL framework overview

SimPBL: A Multi-Agent Framework for Project-Based Learning

Daniel Zhang-Li, Joy Jia Yin Lim, Binglin Liu, Shangqing Tu, Zijun Yao, Hao Peng, Jifan Yu, Haoxuan Li, Zhanxin Hao, Ye He, Zekun Li, Jiangyi Wang, Lei Hou, Bin Xu, Xin Cong, Zhiyuan Liu, Huiqin Liu, Yu Zhang, Juanzi Li

ACL 2026

SimPBL coordinates an orchestrator agent and boundary-aware collaborator agents to provide adaptive scaffolding for project-based learning.

Explainable Few-shot Knowledge Tracing framework

Explainable Few-shot Knowledge Tracing

Haoxuan Li, Jifan Yu, Yuanxin Ouyang, Zhuang Liu, Wenge Rong, Juanzi Li, Zhang Xiong

Frontiers of Digital Education, 2025(Cover Article)

We introduce Explainable Few-shot Knowledge Tracing, a new educational assessment method using large language models to predict student knowledge from limited data with natural language explanations.

MAIC framework

From MOOC to MAIC: Reimagine Online Teaching and Learning Through LLM-Driven Agents

Jifan Yu, Zheyuan Zhang, Daniel Zhang-Li, Shangqing Tu, Zhanxin Hao, Ruimiao Li, Haoxuan Li, Yuanchun Wang, Hanming Li, Linlu Gong, Jie Cao, Jiayin Lin, Jinchang Zhou, Fei Qin, Haohua Wang, Jianxiao Jiang, Lijun Deng, Yisi Zhan, Chaojun Xiao, Xusheng Dai, Xuan Yan, Nianyi Lin, Nan Zhang, Ruixin Ni, Yang Dang, Lei Hou, Yu Zhang, Xu Han, Manli Li, Juanzi Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Huiqin Liu, Maosong Sun

JCST, 2026

We propose MAIC, a scalable and adaptive LLM-based multi-agent framework for personalized online education, validated on 100K learning records and designed as a future collaborative open platform.

Personalized education data mining review

A Review of Data Mining in Personalized Education: Current Trends and Future Prospects

Zhang Xiong, Haoxuan Li, Zhuang Liu, Zhuofan Chen, Hao Zhou, Wenge Rong, Yuanxin Ouyang

Frontiers of Digital Education, 2024

We review data mining advancements in personalized education, covering educational recommendation, cognitive diagnosis, knowledge tracing, and learning analysis, providing structured taxonomies, datasets, and future research directions.

Debiased Contrastive Loss framework

Debiased Contrastive Loss for Collaborative Filtering

Zhuang Liu, Yunpu Ma, Haoxuan Li, Marcel Hildebrandt, Yuanxin Ouyang, Zhang Xiong

KSEM 2023

We introduce a debiased contrastive loss for collaborative filtering in recommender systems to correct sample bias, enhancing user interest representation. It's integrated into MF and GNN models, improving performance and training efficiency.

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Blog