AACL'25 HARBOR: Exploring Persona Dynamics in Multi-Agent Competition
Probing persona and role-play's influence on rational decision-making in LLM agents.
Kenan Jiang
Emory University
I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Emory University, fortunate to be advised by Prof. Li Xiong.
Previously, I was fortunate to be advised by Dr. Fei Liu. Before graduate school, I was a ML Engineer at Linqia and a research intern at ERIC Lab, UCSC.
I completed my undergraudate study in 2021 from UC Berkeley with double majors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.
My research focuses on RSI LLM Agents, Privacy and Safety.
Recent News
2026-05
I start my internship at Bosch USA this summer and work on LLM agents.
2026-01
Received the $5,000 Tinker Research Grant!
2025-12
HARBOR was accepted to AACL 2025 (main track).
2025-08
Completed a summer AI internship at PRGX.
Selected Publications
MLSys'21 Wavelet: Efficient DNN Training with Tick-Tock Scheduling
Accelerating DNN training by intelligently utilizing available GPU memory throughout the training process.
Industry Experience
LLM Agentic AI R&D Intern
Bosch USA
Summer 2026
Research on self-improving LLM coding agents.
AI Intern
PRGX
Summer 2025
Design and build a semantic search system with Elasticsearch.
Machine Learning Software Engineer
Linqia
2021 - 2023
Develop AI-driven functionality for influencer-search platform.
Academic Service
Reviewer
Conferences: ACL 2024 Student Research Workshop (SRW), EMNLP 2026
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Emory University
Advisor: Prof. Li Xiong
B.A. in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley