Hi, there! 👋 I’m Jiale. I am a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for AI for Social Science at Shenzhen Loop Area Institute (SLAI). Before joining SLAI, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the School of Business and Management, HKUST. I received my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from BUPT in 2023, during which I was also a visiting Ph.D. student at SUTD. I received my Bachelor degree in Communication Engineering from XDU in 2018.

My research focuses on AI for economic and social systems, particularly Economic World Models, , and economic and financial agents. I study how AI agents perceive, reason, interact, and adapt in dynamic economic environments, and how such agentic systems can be used to model, simulate, and understand real-world economic and financial processes.

I am actively looking for potential collaborators, especially students passionate about AI research. For research assistant or Ph.D. opportunities, please contact me at jialehan@slai.edu.cn. Students & openings

News

2026
Our paper, WonderEcon: an interactive LLM-agent economic simulation system, received the Best Demonstration Award at EMNLP 2026. [Paper] [GitHub] [Website] 🏅
Three papers were accepted to EMNLP 2026—one to the Main Conference and two to Findings. Congratulations and thanks to all our co-authors! 🎉
We released From Economic Agents to Agentic Economies: A Systems Blueprint for Economic World Models. [arXiv] [Hugging Face] [GitHub] We would be delighted to hear your thoughts and sincerely appreciate any feedback or discussion.
I joined the Center for AI for Social Science at Shenzhen Loop Area Institute (SLAI) as a Research Assistant Professor.
I concluded my postdoctoral fellowship at the HKUST Business School.

Background

Research Experience

Shenzhen Loop Area Institute

Research Assistant Professor, Center for AI for Social Science.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Business and Management. Supervisor: Prof. Yi Yang.

Education

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology. Supervisor: Prof. Bo Cheng.

Singapore University of Technology and Design

Visiting Ph.D. Student. Supervisor: Prof. Wei Lu.

Xidian University

B.Eng. in Telecommunications Engineering. Supervisor: Prof. Quanxue Gao.

Publications

* Equal contribution. † Corresponding author. The full publication list is available on Google Scholar.

Working Papers

  • Hypergraph Modeling of Supply Chains: Unveiling the Impact of High-Order and Temporal Dynamics on Credit Risk Prediction. Jiale Han, Yi Yang, Yangyang Fan, Zhongju Zhang. Production and Operations Management (UTD 24), Second-Round Major Revision.
  • HoneyImage: Verifiable, Harmless, and Stealthy Dataset Ownership Verification for Image Models. Zhihao Zhu, Jiale Han, Yi Yang. Management Information Systems Quarterly (UTD 24), Major Revision. [Paper]
  • RAG Meets Temporal Graphs: Time-Sensitive Modeling and Retrieval for Evolving Knowledge. Jiale Han, Austin Cheung, Yubai Wei, Zheng Yu, Xusheng Wang, Bing Zhu, Yi Yang. Under Review. [Paper] [Code]

Selected Publications

  • Human or Machine? A Preliminary Turing Test for Speech-to-Speech Interaction. Xiang Li, Jiabao Gao, Sipei Lin, Xuan Zhou, Chi Zhang, Bo Cheng, Jiale Han†, Benyou Wang. ICLR 2026. [Paper] [Code]
  • CGSVD: Cascaded Granular Singular Value Decomposition for Large Language Model Compression. Yuli Chen, Shuhao Zhang, Jiale Han, Fanshen Meng, Haishen Jiang, Bo Cheng, Qiang Tong, Xiulei Liu. ICML 2026. [Paper]
  • Beyond A Fixed Seal: Adaptive Stealing Watermark in Large Language Models. Shuhao Zhang, Yuli Chen, Jiale Han†, Bo Cheng†, Jiabao Ma. ACL Findings 2026. [Paper]
  • TTS-Hub: Leveraging Modular LoRAs and Arithmetic Composition for Controllable Text-to-Speech. Xiang Li, Shiqi Zhang, Zichen Xu, Wenyuan Gu, Hongru Xiao, Bo Cheng, Li Zhou, Jiale Han†, Benyou Wang. EMNLP 2026. [Paper]
  • Analyze–Compose–Execute: A Dynamic Dialogue Framework for Multi-Agent Debate. Wenyuan Gu, Haowen Wang, Jiale Han†, Xiang Li, Zhixuan Wu, Hongru Xiao, Bo Cheng†. AAAI 2026.
  • DLP: Dynamic Layerwise Pruning in Large Language Models. Yuli Chen, Bo Cheng†, Jiale Han†, Yingying Zhang, Yingting Li, Shuhao Zhang. ICML 2025. [Paper] [Code]
  • Adapting General-Purpose Embedding Models to Private Datasets Using Keyword-based Retrieval. Yubai Wei, Jiale Han, Yi Yang. ACL Findings 2025. [Paper] [Code]
  • Explain-Analyze-Generate: A Sequential Multi-Agent Collaboration Method for Complex Reasoning. Wenyuan Gu*, Jiale Han*, Haowen Wang, Xiang Li, Bo Cheng. COLING 2025. [Paper]
  • VideoQA-TA: Temporal-Aware Multi-Modal Video Question Answering. Zhixuan Wu, Bo Cheng, Jiale Han, Jiabao Ma, Shuhao Zhang, Yuli Chen, Changbo Li. COLING 2025, Outstanding Paper. [Paper] [Code]
  • Towards Hard Few-Shot Relation Classification. Jiale Han, Bo Cheng, Zhiguo Wan, Wei Lu. IEEE TKDE 2023. [Paper]
  • Generative Prompt Tuning for Relation Classification. Jiale Han, Shuai Zhao, Bo Cheng, Shengkun Ma, Wei Lu. EMNLP Findings 2022. [Paper] [Code]
  • Exploring Task Difficulty for Few-Shot Relation Extraction. Jiale Han, Bo Cheng, Wei Lu. EMNLP 2021. [Paper] [Code]
  • Learning Discriminative and Unbiased Representations for Few-Shot Relation Extraction. Jiale Han, Bo Cheng, Guoshun Nan. CIKM 2021. [Paper]
  • Open Domain Question Answering based on Text Enhanced Knowledge Graph with Hyperedge Infusion. Jiale Han, Bo Cheng, Xu Wang. EMNLP Findings 2020. [Paper]
  • Two-Phase Hypergraph based Reasoning with Dynamic Relations for Multi-Hop KBQA. Jiale Han, Bo Cheng, Xu Wang. IJCAI 2020. [Paper]
  • Hypergraph Convolutional Network for Multi-Hop Knowledge Base Question Answering. Jiale Han, Bo Cheng, Xu Wang. AAAI 2020. [Paper]

Invited Talks

  • XAGI 2026 — “From Economic Agents to Agentic Economies: A Systems Blueprint for Economic World Models,” AI + Finance session, Beijing, Oct. 17, 2026.

Awards

  • Best Demonstration Award, EMNLP 2026.
  • Outstanding Paper, the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2025.
  • Outstanding Graduate Award of BUPT, 2023.
  • Silver Reviewer Award, ICML 2026.

Academic Services

Business and Information Systems

  • Journal Reviewer: MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing.

Artificial Intelligence

  • Workshop Organizer: 2nd International Workshop on Graph-Augmented LLMs (GaLM@CIKM 2026).
  • Area Chair: ACL ARR 2026, 2025.
  • Conference Program Committee: ICML 2026, ICASSP 2026; NeurIPS 2025, AAAI 2025, MM 2025, ICLR 2025, ACL ARR 2025, IJCAI 2025, ICME 2025, COLING 2025; ACL ARR 2024, COLING 2024, NLPCC 2024, WiNLP 2024; ACL ARR 2023, NLPCC 2023; EMNLP 2022, COLING 2022, NLPCC 2022; ACL ARR 2021, NLPCC 2021.
  • Journal Reviewer: ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
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