I am a 2026 graduate of the Software Engineering at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, and I’m going to pursue my Master’s degree in Computer Science at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science) in New York University, starting in January 2027. My research interests focus on natural language processing, specifically agents and post-training. I have gained valuable research experience through internships at leading institutions including Tongji University, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Xi’an Jiaotong University, and worked closely with Prof. Changqing Yin (Tongji Univ), Prof. Tian Zhou (Xi’an Jiaotong Univ), Prof. Le Sun (ISCAS), Prof. Yaojie Lu (ISCAS).
News
- Aug 21, 2026: My paper Structured Strategy Injection for Data Analysis Agents was accepted to EMNLP 2026 Findings. See you in Budapest!
Education
Undergraduate Student
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai · Sep 2022 – Jun 2026
- supervised by Prof. Changqing Yin
Summer Program
- University of Oxford, Oxford, UK · Jul 2024 – Aug 2024
Internships
- Chinese Information Processing Laboratory, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing · Jul 2025 – Present
- Key Laboratory of Intelligent Networks and Network Security, Xi’an Jiaotong University, remote · Sep 2024 – Present
- Innovation Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai · Oct 2024 – Jun 2025
- Machine Intelligence Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai · Dec 2023 – May 2024
Publications
Published
- Structured Strategy Injection for Data Analysis Agents
Zifu Tao, Guozhao Mo, Weixiang Zhou, Yaojie Lu, Hongyu Lin, Ben He, Xianpei Han, Le Sun
EMNLP 2026 Findings
Preprints & Manuscripts Under Review
- When Tools Silently Lie: Evaluating and Mitigating Blind Compliance in Tool-Augmented Data Agents
Zifu Tao, Changqing Yin
Under Review at ICLR 2027
Projects
I maintain and contribute to various open-source projects, focusing on Agents, NLP, Embedding systems and web development. You can view them on my GitHub profile.
Contact
I’m always open to discussing research opportunities, collaborations or projects. Feel free to reach out through any of the following channels:
- Primary Email: tzf9282003@163.com
- Academic Email: zifutao@nyu.edu
- GitHub: github.com/turambar928