I am a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at UCLA’s Department of Computer Science, fortunate to be advised by Professor Wei Wang.
Prior to that, I obtained my Computer Science bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University, fortunately advised by Prof. Jie Tang.
My research centers on Reasoning Large Language Models and Verifiable LLM Agents, spanning two complementary pillars.
- Engineering: Verifiable LLM agents for engineering automation (e.g., research codebase deployment and iteration), and multimodal foundation models for biological macromolecule modeling — understanding, design, and generation.
- Research: Agentic systems that automate end-to-end research workflows — deep research, idea generation, experimental verification, and hypothesis calibration — across financial (fundamental and quantitative) and scientific research.
I founded Tauric Research. For further information, please refer to my Resume.
🔥 News
- 2026.06: Started internship as Quantitative Researcher at Jump Trading.
- 2026.01: Started internship as Student Researcher at Google Cloud AI Research.
- 2025.10: Trading-R1 technical report is officially released; Trading-R1 Terminal coming soon.
- 2025.06: 🎉 TradingAgents codebase is officially released
- 2025.06: Start internship at Point72, working on internal language model applications.
- 2025.03: TradingAgents Oral @ Pennsylvania Convention Center! We have released the service @ Tauric Research.
- 2025.04: ProteinGPT Spotlight @ ICLR Workshop 2025.
- 2025.04: CSR-Bench Oral @ NAACL 2025.
- 2025.01: Two Full papers and Two Workshop Papers accepted at AAAI.
- 2024.10: One paper accepted at Neurips workshop.
- 2024.10: Three papers accepted at EMNLP.
- 2024.07: Started the internship at Amazon Web Service.
📝 Publications
Trading-R1: Financial Trading with LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning Trading-R1 Terminal
Yijia Xiao, Edward Sun, Tong Chen, Fang Wu, Di Luo, Wei Wang
Abstract: Trading-R1 is a financially-aware reasoning model that incorporates strategic planning for thesis composition, grounds analysis in heterogeneous evidence, and executes volatility-adjusted decisions. We align its reasoning with trading principles through supervised fine-tuning and a three-stage reinforcement curriculum on the Tauric-TR1-DB corpus. Trading-R1 delivers interpretable, disciplined workflows that will power the forthcoming Trading-R1 Terminal.
TradingAgents: Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework, Oral Presentation, Poster
Yijia Xiao, Edward Sun, Di Luo, Wei Wang
Abstract: We present TradingAgents, a pioneering multi-agent LLM framework that revolutionizes autonomous trading by simulating professional trading firm dynamics. Our system orchestrates specialized agents—from analysts to risk managers—in a collaborative decision-making process, achieving up to 30.5% annualized returns, significantly outperforming traditional trading strategies while maintaining robust risk management.
CSR-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents in Deployment of Computer Science Research Repositories, Oral Presentation
Yijia Xiao, Runhui Wang, Luyang Kong, Davor Golac, Wei Wang
Abstract: CSR-Bench is a benchmark for evaluating LLM agents on deploying computer-science research repositories (NLP/CV/AI/ML/DM), scoring accuracy, efficiency, and deployment-script quality. We introduce CSR-Agents, a multi-agent framework that reads a repository’s README and structure and iteratively generates and refines bash commands to set up environments and run experiments—significantly streamlining research-code deployment.
Protein Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey
Yijia Xiao, Wanjia Zhao, Junkai Zhang, Yiqiao Jin, Han Zhang, Zhicheng Ren, Renliang Sun, Haixin Wang, Guancheng Wan, Pan Lu, Xiao Luo, Yu Zhang, James Zou, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang
Abstract: Protein-specific large language models (Protein LLMs) are revolutionizing protein science by enabling more efficient protein structure prediction, function annotation, and design. While existing surveys focus on specific aspects or applications, this work provides the first comprehensive overview of Protein LLMs, covering their architectures, training datasets, evaluation metrics, and diverse applications. Through a systematic analysis of over 100 articles, we propose a structured taxonomy of state-of-the-art Protein LLMs, analyze how they leverage large-scale protein sequence data for improved accuracy, and explore their potential in advancing protein engineering and biomedical research.
ProteinGPT: Multimodal LLM for Protein Property Prediction and Structure Understanding, Spotlight, MLGenX, ICLR 2025, Poster
Yijia Xiao, Edward Sun, Yiqiao Jin, Qifan Wang, Wei Wang
Abstract: ProteinGPT enables comprehensive protein analysis by allowing users to upload sequences and structures, providing contextually relevant responses to streamline protein research.
Huggingface Demonstration: https://huggingface.co/spaces/AI-BIO/ProteinGPT-Llama3.
Large Language Models Can Be Contextual Privacy Protection Learners
Yijia Xiao, Yiqiao Jin, Yushi Bai, Yue Wu, Xianjun Yang, Xiao Luo, Wenchao Yu, Xujiang Zhao, Yanchi Liu, Quanquan Gu, Haifeng Chen, Wei Wang, Wei Cheng
Abstract: We introduce CPPLM (Contextual Privacy Protection Fine-Tuning for LLM), which emphasizes instruction-based tuning with positive and negative examples, enabling LLMs to capture knowledge while preserving privacy.
RNA-GPT: Multimodal Generative System for RNA Sequence Understanding
Yijia Xiao, Edward Sun, Yiqiao Jin, Wei Wang
Abstract: RNA-GPT combines RNA sequence encoders with state-of-the-art LLMs for precise representation alignment, streamlining RNA research by providing accurate responses to RNA queries.
LogicVista: Multimodal LLM Logical Reasoning Benchmark in Visual Contexts
Yijia Xiao, Edward Sun, Tianyu Liu, Wei Wang
Abstract: LogicVista is an evaluation benchmark designed to assess logical reasoning capabilities of MLLMs in visual contexts, encompassing multiple logical reasoning tasks and capabilities.
Modeling protein using large-scale pretrain language model
Yijia Xiao, Jiezhong Qiu, Ziang Li, Chang-Yu Hsieh, Jie Tang
Abstract: Introducing ProteinLM, a suite of large-scale protein language models comprising 3 billion parameters. ProteinLM enhances contact prediction accuracy from 36% to 75%, showcasing its efficiency in capturing evolutionary data. Our resources are accessible to the public at https://github.com/THUDM/ProteinLM.
Benchmarking foundation models with language-model-as-an-examiner
Yushi Bai, Jiahao Ying, Yixin Cao, Xin Lv, Yuze He, Xiaozhi Wang, Jifan Yu, Kaisheng Zeng, Yijia Xiao, Haozhe Lyu, Jiayin Zhang, Juanzi Li, Lei Hou
Abstract: We propose Language-Model-as-an-Examiner, a novel benchmarking method that utilizes an LM as a knowledgeable examiner to construct dataset and evaluate other models.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- Amazon PhD Fellowship, 2026.
- Research Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2021.
- Silver Medal, ICPC Asia East Continent Final, 2020.
- Gold Medal, ICPC Asia Regional Contest, 2020.
- First Prize, Chinese Collegiate Physics Olympiad, 2019.
- National Bronze, Chinese Physics Olympiad, 2017.
📖 Educations
- Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, 2022 - Now
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Advisor: Professor Wei Wang
- Bachelor, Computer Science and Technology, 2018 - 2022
- Tsinghua University
- Advisor: Professor Jie Tang
💬 Invited Talks
- 2025, Verifiable and agentic AI for quantitative research at Jump Trading.
- 2025, Agentic AI for fundamental research at Trivariate Research.
- 2025, TradingAgents: multi-agents LLM financial trading framework at LLMQuant.
- 2024, Application of machine learning in biomedical scenarios at dknet.
- 2022, Efficient pre-training of large-scale protein language models at BioMap.
- 2021, Applications of pre-trained protein models to AI start-ups at BAAI.
💻 Internships
- 2026.06 - Present, Quantitative Researcher, Jump Trading, Chicago.
- 2026.01 - 2026.06, Student Researcher, Google Cloud AI Research, Sunnyvale.
- 2025.06 - 2025.12, Quantitative Researcher, Point72, New York.
- 2024.06 - 2024.09, Applied Scientist, AWS, Seattle.
- 2023.06 - 2023.09, Research Intern, NEC Labs America, Princeton.
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