Zijing Shi

About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII), University of Technology Sydney. I completed my Ph.D. at UTS in February 2026, advised by Prof. Ling Chen. I have also been fortunate to learn from A/Prof. Meng Fang.

I study AI agents, from RL agents in game environments to today’s LLM agents in real-world settings. I see these agents as systems that bridge humans and the world, and my goal is to make them both intelligent and trustworthy.

News

• Apr 2026🔥 Our paper WebDecept on web agent safety has been accepted to ACL 2026.
• Jan 2025Our paper MC-DML on planning in game agents has been accepted to ICLR 2025.
• Dec 2023One paper has been accepted at AAAI 2024 (Oral, SRRAI Track).
• Jan 2023One paper has been accepted at EACL 2023.
• Jan 2023One paper has been accepted at ICLR 2023.

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Research

Agentic Reasoning and Planning

TL;DR: Building language agents that can reason, plan, and act in interactive environments.

Game agents Web agents Multi-agent simulation

Trustworthy and Aligned Agents

TL;DR: Studying value alignment and social bias to make language agents safer and more responsible in open-ended settings.

Value alignment Social bias in LLMs

Selected Papers View all on Google Scholar →

Awards

• 2025UTS AAII Student Best Paper Award in the category of AI Theory and Algorithms.
• 2024Nominated by UTS for Apple Scholar and Google PhD Fellowship competition.
• 2023UTS HDR WiEIT Award (Women in Engineering and IT).
• 20231st place, UTS School of Computer Science Research Showcase.
• 2021Distinguished Graduate Student.

Teaching

Service

Peer reviewer