Jingru Gan’s Homepage
I am currently a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), under supervision of Professor Wei Wang. My research focuses on LLMs (Agentic Systems) for Scientific Discovery and Knowledge-based VQA.
Recent Updates
- [1/15/2026] New preprints released: Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery
- [1/15/2026] New preprints released: Can Large Language Models Graduate in Materials Science?
- [5/16/2025] Our benchmarking work MetamatBench: Integrating Heterogeneous Data, Computational Tools, and Visual Interface for Metamaterial Discovery is accepted by KDD DB Track!
- [3/5/2025] We will present our work MatLLMSearch: Crystal Structure Discovery with Evolution-Guided Large Language Models at ICLR 2025 Workshops AgenticAI (oral) and AI4Mat!
- [2/8/2025] Our paper MatLLMSearch: Crystal Structure Discovery with Evolution-Guided Large Language Models is released! Check out our project.
- [2/1/2025] Our work on Latent Crystallographic Microscope: Probing the Emergent Crystallographic Knowledge in Large Language Models is presented at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop: MechInterp!
- [12/20/2024] Our demo paper MetaScientist: A Human-AI Synergistic Framework for Automated Mechanical Metamaterial Design is accepted to NAACL 2025 Demo Track!
- [10/1/2023] One paper on open-set knowledge-based visual question answering is released.
- [10/9/2021] I was honored to receive the SIGMM Student Travel Grant Award. Thanks SIGMM for their generosity!
- [7/4/2021] One paper on multimodal entity linking got accepted to ACM Multimedia 2021 with an overall acceptance rate of 27.9% (542 / 1,942).
Contact Information
Jingru Gan
jrgan@cs.ucla.edu
Scalable Analytics Institute (ScAI)
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596 USA