About Me

Hi👋, my name is Qi Zhang (张棋 in Chinese). You can also call me Max. I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Computer & Information Sciences Department of Temple University. I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Eduard Dragut. I also closely work with Dr. Cornelia Caragea and Dr. Longin Jan Latecki.

My primary research interests lie in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Machine Learning (ML). Specifically, I focus on the following directions:

LLM for Structured Knowledge Extraction (LLM4StructKE): Leveraging LLMs to extract entities, relations, and complex structured knowledge from text.
Structured Knowledge for LLMs (StructKE4LLM): Injecting and utilizing structured knowledge to enhance LLM reasoning, factuality, and adaptability.
LLM Agents: Developing LLM-based agent systems with capabilities for tool use, safety assurance, and multi-step reasoning.

News

09-2025 Start Applied Scientist Intern at AWS. I am fortunate to work with Dr. Qian Cui and Dr. Zhilu Zhang.

05-2025 Start summer research intern at Intuit AI Research Center. I am fortunate to work with Dr. Xiang Gao and Dr. Yuguang Yao.

04-2025 One paper has been accepted to ACL!!!

01-2025 One paper has been accepted to NAACL, see you in Albuquerque, New Mexico!!!

Selected Publications

underline means equal contribution.

Metacognitive Self-Correction for Multi-Agent System via Prototype-Guided Next-Execution Reconstruction

Qi Zhang, Xu Shen, Song Wang, Zhen Tan, Xinyu Zhao, Laura Yao, Vaishnav Tadiparthi, Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub, Ehsan Moradi Pari, Kwonjoon Lee, Tianlong Chen

Preprint

DynClean: Training Dynamics-based Label Cleaning for Distantly-Supervised Named Entity Recognition

Qi Zhang, Huitong Pan, Zhijia Chen, Login Jan Latecki, Cornelia Caragea, Eduard Dragut

NAACL 2025, Findings

Taxonomy-Driven Knowledge Graph Construction for Domain-Specific Scientific Applications

Huitong Pan, Qi Zhang, Eduard Dragut, Cornelia Caragea, Longin Jan Latecki

ACL 2025, Findings

Querying Climate Knowledge: Semantic Retrieval for Scientific Discovery

Mustapha Adamu, Qi Zhang, Huitong Pan, Eduard Dragut, Longin Jan Latecki

ACM SIGIR 2025 Workshop MANILA

ClimateIE: A Dataset for Climate Science Information Extraction

Huitong Pan, Mustapha Adamu, Qi Zhang, Eduard Dragut, Longin Jan Latecki