Patrick Jiang

Hello! I’m Patrick Jiang, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UIUC and a member of DMG. I’m advised by Prof. Jiawei Han and co-advised by Prof. Jimeng Sun.

Recently, I was a Research Fellow at Anthropic, and a Student Researcher at Google Research. I have also worked with Chroma, Google DeepMind, Thinking Machines Lab, and other industry partners.

My recent research centers on how language models search, both outward and inward. Outward, I study agents that seek information, use tools, and reason over external evidence; my prior work helped pioneer training search agents with on-policy RL. Inward, I study how a model’s own search is shaped by its goals and internal representations, and how to keep that search aligned.

I’m on 2027 job market - feel free to reach out!