Patrick Jiang

Hello! I’m Patrick Jiang, a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UIUC (DMG).

Recently, I was a Research Fellow at Anthropic, and a Student Researcher at Google Research. I have also worked with Chroma (now Replit), 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 how to teach LLMs to search through post-training, and how to build systems that make their search more effective. 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 the 2027 job market. Feel free to reach out!