Zheng Yao

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Bachelor Student, UQ

I am Zheng, currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at the School of Computer Science, The University of Queensland (July 2022 – present). My research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Passage Retrieval, with a particular emphasis on:

  • LLM Evaluation & Benchmark Development

  • Information Retrieval & Machine Learning

Academic Contributions
I am committed to advancing the field through rigorous empirical research. My contributions include:

  1. Yao, Z. (2024). Proposed a multi-model approach for depression detection in Chinese social media (accepted at the 5th International Seminar on AI, Networking and IT).
  2. Liu et al. (2024). Developed FineMath, a fine-grained mathematical evaluation benchmark for Chinese LLMs (arXiv:2403.07747).
  3. Liu et al. (2025). Designed CCDE, a Chinese clinical diagnostic evaluation benchmark for LLMs (submitted to COLING 2025).
  4. Recent work on “Pre-training vs. Fine-tuning: A Reproducibility Study” has been accepted for oral presentation at the SIGIR 2025 Resource & Reproducibility Papers Track.

Professional Experience

  • Research Assistant (Aug. 2023 – Oct. 2024, TJUNLP Lab, Tianjin University): Spearheaded data engineering and model optimization for AI in healthcare and metaphor identification.
  • Academic Intern (2024 – Present, Artificial Intelligence for the Queensland Digital Health Center (QDHeC))

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