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Education

B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012
M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)

Work experience

Summer 2015: Research Assistant
- Github University
- Duties included: Tagging issues
- Supervisor: Professor Git
Fall 2015: Research Assistant
- Github University
- Duties included: Merging pull requests
- Supervisor: Professor Hub

Skills

Skill 1
Skill 2
- Sub-skill 2.1
- Sub-skill 2.2
- Sub-skill 2.3
Skill 3

Publications

Chinese Functional Maximal-length Noun Phrase Recognition (Bachelor Thesis)

Jiahuan Pei, "Chinese Functional Maximal-length Noun Phrase Recognition (Bachelor Thesis)." Dalian Maritime University, 2014.

DUT-NLP-CH @ NTCIR-12 Temporalia Temporal Intent Disambiguation Subtask

Jiahuan Pei, Degen Huang, Jianjun Ma, Dingxin Song, Leyuan Sang, "DUT-NLP-CH @ NTCIR-12 Temporalia Temporal Intent Disambiguation Subtask." In Proceedings of the 12th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR 2016).

Identification of English Functional Noun Phrases by CRFs and the Semantic Information

Jianjun Ma, Jiahuan Pei, Degen Huang, "Identification of English Functional Noun Phrases by CRFs and the Semantic Information." Journal of Chinese Information Processing, 2016.

Combining Word Embedding and Semantic Lexicon for Chinese Word Similarity Computation

Jiahuan Pei, Cong Zhang, Degen Huang, Jianjun Ma, "Combining Word Embedding and Semantic Lexicon for Chinese Word Similarity Computation." In Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Applications (NLPCC 2016).

Semantic graph optimization algorithm based chinesemicroblog opinion summarization

Cong Zhang, Jiahuan Pei, Kaiyu Huang, Degen Huang, Zhangzhi Yin, "Semantic graph optimization algorithm based chinesemicroblog opinion summarization." Journal Of Shandong University, 2017.

Research on Chinese Word Semantic Similarity Computation (Master Thesis)

Jiahuan Pei, "Research on Chinese Word Semantic Similarity Computation (Master Thesis)." Dalian University of Technology, 2017.

Incorporating Prior Knowledge into Word Embedding for Chinese Word Similarity Measurement

Degen Huang, Jiahuan Pei, Cong Zhang, Kaiyu Huang, Jianjun Ma, "Incorporating Prior Knowledge into Word Embedding for Chinese Word Similarity Measurement." ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP 2018).

Syntactic parsing of clause constituents for statistical machine translation

Jianjun Ma, Jiahuan Pei, Degen Huang, Dingxin Song, "Syntactic parsing of clause constituents for statistical machine translation." International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE 2018).

Recognition of Syntactic Relationship between Clauses Using CRFs

Jianjun Ma, Mulangma Zhu, Degen Huang, Jiahuan Pei, "Recognition of Syntactic Relationship between Clauses Using CRFs." In International Journal of Advanced Intelligence, 2018.

SEntNet: Source-aware Recurrent Entity Network for Dialogue Response Selection

Jiahuan Pei, Arent Stienstra, Julia Kiseleva, Maarten Rijke, "SEntNet: Source-aware Recurrent Entity Network for Dialogue Response Selection." In Proceedings of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational AI (IJCAI 2019 SCAI Workshop).

A Modular Task-oriented Dialogue System Using a Neural Mixture-of-Experts

Jiahuan Pei, Pengjie Ren, Maarten Rijke, "A Modular Task-oriented Dialogue System Using a Neural Mixture-of-Experts." In Proceedings of the 42nd International ACM SIGIR Workshop on Conversational Interaction Systems (SIGIR 2019 WCIS Workshop).

Retrospective and Prospective Mixture-of-Generators for Task-oriented Dialogue Response Generation

Jiahuan Pei, Pengjie Ren, Christof Monz, Maarten Rijke, "Retrospective and Prospective Mixture-of-Generators for Task-oriented Dialogue Response Generation." In Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020).

A Cooperative Memory Network for Personalized Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Incomplete User Profiles

Jiahuan Pei, Pengjie Ren, Maarten Rijke, "A Cooperative Memory Network for Personalized Task-oriented Dialogue Systems with Incomplete User Profiles." In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2021 (WWW 2021).

Learning Embeddings to Represent Information Retrieval Systems

Jiahuan Pei, Danushka Bollegala, Omar Zaidan, "Learning Embeddings to Represent Information Retrieval Systems." In AMLC 2022 Deep Metric Learning and Semantic Similarity Search Workshop.

ReMeDi: Resources for Multi-domain, Multi-service, Medical Dialogues

Guojun Yan, Jiahuan Pei, Pengjie Ren, Zhaochun Ren, Maarten Rijke, "ReMeDi: Resources for Multi-domain, Multi-service, Medical Dialogues." In Proceedings of International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2022).

Transformer Uncertainty Estimation with Hierarchical Stochastic Attentions

Jiahuan Pei, Cheng Wang, Gyorgy Szarvas, "Transformer Uncertainty Estimation with Hierarchical Stochastic Attentions." In Proceedings of AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022).

Collaborative Agents for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems (Doctoral Thesis)

Jiahuan Pei, "Collaborative Agents for Task-oriented Dialogue Systems (Doctoral Thesis)." Univeristy of Amsterdam, 2022.

Intent-calibrated Self-training for Answer Selection in Open-domain Dialogues

Wentao Deng, Jiahuan Pei, Zhaochun Ren, Zhumin Chen, Pengjie Ren, "Intent-calibrated Self-training for Answer Selection in Open-domain Dialogues." Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2023.

Pre-trained Language Models in Biomedical Domain: A Systematic Survey

Benyou Wang, Qianqian Xie, Jiahuan Pei, Prayag Tiwari, Zhao Li, Jie Fu, "Pre-trained Language Models in Biomedical Domain: A Systematic Survey." ACM Computing Surveys, 2023.

Syllogistic Reasoning for Legal Judgment Analysis

Wentao Deng, Jiahuan Pei, Keyi Kong, Zhe Chen, Furu Wei, Yujun Li, Zhaochun Ren, Zhumin Chen, Pengjie Ren, "Syllogistic Reasoning for Legal Judgment Analysis." EMNLP 2023.

A Comparative Analysis of Faithfulness Metrics and Humans in Citation Evaluation

Weijia Zhang, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Jiahuan Pei, Yifei Yuan, Jia-Hong Huang, Evangelos Kanoulas, "A Comparative Analysis of Faithfulness Metrics and Humans in Citation Evaluation." LLM4EVAL Workshop at SIGIR 2024.

Assessing Implicit Retrieval Robustness of Large Language Models

Xiaoyu Shen, Rexhina Blloshmi, Dawei Zhu, Jiahuan Pei, Wei Zhang, "Assessing Implicit Retrieval Robustness of Large Language Models." EMNLP 2024.

Autonomous Workflow for Multimodal Fine-Grained Training Assistants Towards Mixed Reality

Jiahuan Pei, Irene Viola, Haochen Huang, Junxiao Wang, Moonisa Ahsan, Fanghua Ye, Yiming Jiang, Yao Sai, Di Wang, Zhumin Chen, Pengjie Ren, Pablo Cesar, "Autonomous Workflow for Multimodal Fine-Grained Training Assistants Towards Mixed Reality." ACL-Findings 2024.

Deciphering Perceptual Quality in Colored Point Cloud: Prioritizing Geometry or Texture Distortion?

Xuemei Zhou, Irene Viola, Yunlu Chen, Jiahuan Pei, Pablo Cesar, "Deciphering Perceptual Quality in Colored Point Cloud: Prioritizing Geometry or Texture Distortion?." ACM Multimedia 2024.

Eliciting Motivational Interviewing Skill Codes in Psychotherapy with LLMs: A Bilingual Dataset and Analytical Study

Xin Sun, Jiahuan Pei, Jan de Wit, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Emiel Krahmer, Jos T.P. Dobber, Jos A. Bosch, "Eliciting Motivational Interviewing Skill Codes in Psychotherapy with LLMs: A Bilingual Dataset and Analytical Study." COLING 2024.

MELoRA: Mini-Ensemble Low-Rank Adapters for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

Pengjie Ren, Chengshun Shi, Shiguang Wu, Mengqi Zhang, Zhaochun Ren, Maarten Rijke, Zhumin Chen, Jiahuan Pei, "MELoRA: Mini-Ensemble Low-Rank Adapters for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning." ACL 2024.

Mixture-of-languages Routing for Multilingual Dialogues

Jiahuan Pei, Guojun Yan, Maarten de Rijke, Pengjie Ren, "Mixture-of-languages Routing for Multilingual Dialogues." ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2024.

Towards Fine-Grained Citation Evaluation in Generated Text: A Comparative Analysis of Faithfulness Metrics

Weijia Zhang, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Yifei Yuan, Jiahuan Pei, Jia-Hong Huang, Evangelos Kanoulas, "Towards Fine-Grained Citation Evaluation in Generated Text: A Comparative Analysis of Faithfulness Metrics." INLG 2024.

Rethinking the Alignment of Psychotherapy Dialogue Generation with Motivational Interviewing Strategies

Xin Sun, Xiao Tang, Abdallah El Ali, Zhuying Li, Xiaoyu Shen, Pengjie Ren, Jan de Wit, Jiahuan Pei, Jos A Bosch, "Rethinking the Alignment of Psychotherapy Dialogue Generation with Motivational Interviewing Strategies." COLING 2025.

Augmentation with Neighboring Information for Conversational Recommendation

Yuanxing Liu, Jiahuan Pei, Wei-Nan Zhang, Ming Li, Wanxiang Che, Maarten de Rijke, "Augmentation with Neighboring Information for Conversational Recommendation." ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2025.

Belief-Calibrated Multi-Agent Consensus Seeking for Complex NLP Tasks

Wentao Deng, Jiahuan Pei, Zhiwei Xu, Zhaochun Ren, Zhumin Chen, Pengjie Ren, "Belief-Calibrated Multi-Agent Consensus Seeking for Complex NLP Tasks." NeurIPS 2025, 2025.

Conversational Education at Scale: A Multi-LLM Agent Workflow for Procedural Learning and Pedagogic Quality Assessment

Jiahuan Pei, Fanghua Ye, Xin Sun, Wentao Deng, Koen Hindriks, Junxiao Wang, "Conversational Education at Scale: A Multi-LLM Agent Workflow for Procedural Learning and Pedagogic Quality Assessment." EMNLP-Findings 2025, 2025.

ExcluIR: Exclusionary Neural Information Retrieval

Wenhao Zhang, Mengqi Zhang, Shiguang Wu, Jiahuan Pei, Zhaochun Ren, Maarten de Rijke, Zhumin Chen, Pengjie Ren, "ExcluIR: Exclusionary Neural Information Retrieval." AAAI 2025, 2025.

LEGO Co-builder: Exploring Fine-Grained Vision-Language Modeling for Multimodal Assembly Assistants

Haochen Huang, Jiahuan Pei, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Xin Sun, Moonisa Ahsan, Chuang Yu, Zhaochun Ren, Pablo Cesar, Junxiao Wang, "LEGO Co-builder: Exploring Fine-Grained Vision-Language Modeling for Multimodal Assembly Assistants." arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.05515, 2025.

MultiJustice: A Chinese Dataset for Multi-Party, Multi-Charge Legal Prediction

Xiao Wang, Jiahuan Pei, Diancheng Shui, Zhiguang Han, Xin Sun, Dawei Zhu, Xiaoyu Shen, "MultiJustice: A Chinese Dataset for Multi-Party, Multi-Charge Legal Prediction." NLPCC 2025, 2025.

Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference: System Demonstrations

Lucie Flek, Shashi Narayan, Jiahuan Pei, "Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference: System Demonstrations." Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference: System Demonstrations, 2025.

Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference

Lucie Flek, Shashi Narayan, Jiahuan Pei, "Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference." Proceedings of the 18th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 2025.

Rethinking the Alignment of Psychotherapy Dialogue Generation with Motivational Interviewing Strategies

Script-Strategy Aligned Generation: Aligning LLMs with Expert-Crafted Dialogue Scripts and Therapeutic Strategies for Psychotherapy

Xin Sun, Jan de Wit, Zhuying Li, Jiahuan Pei, Abdallah El Ali, Jos A Bosch, "Script-Strategy Aligned Generation: Aligning LLMs with Expert-Crafted Dialogue Scripts and Therapeutic Strategies for Psychotherapy." CSCW 2025, 2025.

Talking-to-Build: How LLM-Assisted Interface Shapes Player Performance and Experience in Minecraft

Xin Sun, Lei Wang, Yue Li, Jie Li, Massimo Poesio, Julian Frommel, Koen Hinriks, Jiahuan Pei, "Talking-to-Build: How LLM-Assisted Interface Shapes Player Performance and Experience in Minecraft." ICMI 2025, 2025.

Trustworthy AI Psychotherapy: Multi-Agent LLM Workflow for Counseling and Explainable Mental Disorder Diagnosis

Mithat Can Ozgun, Jiahuan Pei, Koen Hindriks, Lucia Donatelli, Qingzhi Liu, Junxiao Wang, "Trustworthy AI Psychotherapy: Multi-Agent LLM Workflow for Counseling and Explainable Mental Disorder Diagnosis." CIKM 2025, 2025.

Aligning Human-AI-Interaction Trust for Mental Health Support: Survey and Position for Multi-Stakeholders

Xin Sun, Yue Su, Yifan Mo, Qingyu Meng, Yuxuan Li, Saku Sugawara, Mengyuan Zhang, Charlotte Gerritsen, Sander L Koole, Koen Hindriks, Jiahuan Pei, "Aligning Human-AI-Interaction Trust for Mental Health Support: Survey and Position for Multi-Stakeholders." arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.20166, 2026.

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Control of Heater Position and Heating Power in a Smart Greenhouse

Ratta Chindasilpa, Durrotun Nashihin, Jiahuan Pei, Long Cheng, Xiaohan Zhou, Qingzhi Liu, "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Control of Heater Position and Heating Power in a Smart Greenhouse." Smart Agricultural Technology, 2026.

Herculean: An Agentic Benchmark for Financial Intelligence

Xueqing Peng, Zhuohan Xie, Yupeng Cao, Haohang Li, Lingfei Qian, Yan Wang, Vincent Jim Zhang, Huan He, Xuguang Ai, Linhai Ma, Ruoyu Xiang, Yueru He, Yi Han, Shuyao Wang, Yuqing Guo, Mingyang Jiang, Yilun Zhao, Youzhong Dong, Xiaoyu Wang, Yankai Chen, Ye Yuan, Qiyuan Zhang, Fuyuan Lyu, Haolun Wu, Yonghan Yang, Zichen Zhao, Yuyang Dai, Fan Zhang, Rania Elbadry, Ayesha Gull, Muhammad Usman Safder, Nuo Chen, Fengbin Zhu, Tianshi Cai, Zimu Wang, Polydoros Giannouris, Yuechen Jiang, Zhiwei Liu, Mohsinul Kabir, Yuyan Wang, Yixiang Zheng, Yangyang Yu, Weijin Liu, Wenbo Cao, Anke Xu, Peng Lu, Jerry Huang, Fengran Mo, Mingquan Lin, Prayag Tiwari, Yijia Zhao, Victor Gutierrez Basulto, Xiao-Yang Liu, Kaleb E Smith, Jiahuan Pei, Arman Cohan, Jimin Huang, Yuehua Tang, Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Xi Chen, Xue Liu, Junichi Tsujii, Jian-Yun Nie, Sophia Ananiadou, "Herculean: An Agentic Benchmark for Financial Intelligence." arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.14355, 2026.