Short Bio

I am a senior research scientist in Google DeepMind, working on large language model (LLM). I completed my Ph.D. at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), advised by Prof. Jiawei Han.

What's new!

Nov. 2025 - Gemini 3.0 is publicly released. I contribute to improving its tool use capabilities and its agentic eval infra.

Oct. 2025 - I serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2026 and a Senior Area Chair for EMNLP 2025.

June 2025 - The Gemini 2.5 technical report is publicly released. My contributions center on enhancing Gemini's tool use and agentic capabilities.

Jan. 2025 - Two papers on Reward Model Training and Multi-turn Iterative Preference Optimization are accepted in ICLR 2025.

Jan. 2025 - One paper on LLM-enhanced Hierarchical Text Classification is accepted in WebConf 2025.

Jan. 2025 - One paper on Listwise Preference Optimization is accepted in NAACL 2025.

Area of Interests

My primary areas of interests in research include:

  • Large Language Model
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Multi-agent System

I have also worked on:

  • Taxonomy/KG Construction
  • Semantic Search/Ranking
  • Topic Modeling

Contact

Email mickeysjm[at]gmail.com