Hi there! I am Haoran Ye (叶皓然), a Ph.D. student at SIST, Peking University, advised by Prof. Guojie Song and co-advised by Prof. Xin Zhang. My research interests include agentic AI, AI + psychology, human-centered AI, and learning to optimize.

📖 Education

• Sep 2024 - Jun 2029 (anticipated), Ph.D. Student in AI, School of Intelligence Science and Technology (SIST), Peking University
  • Advised by Guojie Song and co-advised by Xin Zhang
  • Rank: 1/33
  • GPA: 3.87/4.00
• Sep 2020 - Jun 2024, B.Eng. in AI, School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University
  • Advised by Zhiguang Cao, Helan Liang, and Yong Li
  • Rank: 1/250
  • Average Grade: 95/100
  • Student of the Year 2024, Jiangsu (江苏) Province (Ranked 2nd among all undergraduate students in Jiangsu Province)

📑 Selected Publications (Full List)

Learning for (combinatorial) optimization

• NeurIPS 2024 ReEvo: Large Language Models as Hyper-Heuristics with Reflective Evolution, Haoran Ye, Jiarui Wang, Zhiguang Cao, Federico Berto, Chuanbo Hua, Haeyeon Kim, Jinkyoo Park, Guojie Song
• NeurIPS 2023 DeepACO: Neural-enhanced Ant Systems for Combinatorial Optimization, Haoran Ye, Jiarui Wang, Zhiguang Cao, Helan Liang, Yong Li
• AAAI 2024 GLOP: Learning Global Partition and Local Construction for Solving Large-scale Routing Problems in Real-time, Haoran Ye, Jiarui Wang, Helan Liang, Zhiguang Cao, Yong Li, Fanzhang Li
• KDD 2025 TransPlace: Transferable Circuit Global Placement via Graph Neural Network, Yunbo Hou, Haorao Ye, Shuwen Yang, Yingxue Zhang, Siyuan Xu, Guojie Song
• KDD 2024 RoutePlacer: An End-to-End Routability-Aware Placer with Graph Neural Network, Yunbo Hou, Haoran Ye, Yingxue Zhang, Siyuan Xu, Guojie Song
• KDD 2025 D&B Track RL4CO: an Extensive Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization Benchmark, Federico Berto, Chuanbo Hua, Junyoung Park, Laurin Luttmann, Yining Ma, Fanchen Bu, Jiarui Wang, Haoran Ye, Minsu Kim, and more authors

Human-centered AI; AI + Psychology; Safety and value alignment

• Survey Large Language Model Psychometrics: A Systematic Review of Evaluation, Validation, and Enhancement, Haoran Ye, Jing Jin, Yuhang Xie, Xin Zhang, Guojie Song
• ACL 2025 Main, Generative Psycho-Lexical Approach for Constructing Value Systems in Large Language Models, Haoran Ye, Tianze Zhang, Yuhang Xie, Liyuan Zhang, Yuanyi Ren, Xin Zhang, Guojie Song
• AAAI 2025 Measuring Human and AI Values Based on Generative Psychometrics with Large Language Models, Haoran Ye, Yuhang Xie, Yuanyi Ren, Hanjun Fang, Xin Zhang, Guojie Song
• ACL 2024 Main ValueBench: Towards Comprehensively Evaluating Value Orientations and Understanding of Large Language Models, Yuanyi Ren, Haoran Ye, Hanjun Fang, Xin Zhang, Guojie Song

Agentic AI and foundation models

• Meta-R1: Empowering Large Reasoning Models with Metacognition, Haonan Dong, Haoran Ye, Wenhao Zhu, Kehan Jiang, Guojie Song

🎖 Selected Honors and Awards

• Sep 2025, National Scholarship
• Jun 2025, PKU Presidential Scholarship (the only recipient in the 2024 SIST cohort)
• Dec 2024, “Building Heart” (立心) Scholarship, SIST, Peking University

• Oct 2024, Excellent Undergraduate Thesis of Jiangsu (江苏) Province
• Jun 2024, Student of the Year, Jiangsu (江苏) Province (Ranked 2nd among all undergraduate students in Jiangsu Province)
• Mar 2024, May Fourth Medal of Innovation, Soochow University (I was the only undergraduate student who received this award)
• May 2023, Excellent Student in Study and Research, Soochow University (I was the only junior-year undergraduate student who received this award)
• Dec 2022, National Scholarship; Provincial Merit Student; Pacemaker to Merit Student

💼 Services

• Reviewer (since 2024): NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL ARR, TMLR, etc.

🌈 Language Proficiency

• Mandarin (Native)
• English (Fluent; CET-6: 636)

⛹️‍♀️ Extracurricular Activities

• 2024 - Present:
  • 🥳 Individual Medals in PKU Sports Festival and PKU Cup: 🥇x3, 🥈x4, 🥉x1
  • 🤸 Member of the PKU Jump Rope Team
  • 🏀 Captain of the Men’s Basketball Team, SIST, PKU; scored 10+ points on average in 2025 PKU Cup; led the team to its first-ever top 8 finish
  • 🏊‍♂️ 6th place in the Men’s 100m Breaststroke, PKU Cup
  • 💪 4th place in Men’s Physique (Group B) at the first Fitness and Bodybuilding Championship of PKU
• 2020 - 2024:
  • 💬 Debating Team of SUDA; Participated in a series of debating competitions, including the Chinese Debate World Cup
  • 🏀 Captain of the Men’s Basketball Team, SCST, SUDA
  • 💪 Full marks in the National Student Physical Health Standard Test