I am currently an M.Eng. student in TMI, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. My earlier academic training includes a B.S. in Mathematical Economics from Fudan University and a brief period in Georgia Tech's OMSCS program. Prior to graduate study, I spent three years working on data-driven growth strategy at a FinTech SaaS company.

I am interested in how general intelligent systems, from humans to language models, reason, and how such reasoning can be evaluated with care. My recent work has touched on LLM evaluation, logic-and-NLP benchmarks, and AI systems for scholarly workflows.

Publications:

NovGauge — A Fine-Grained Benchmark for Diagnosing LLMs' Capability in Paper Novelty Assessment
Guoqiang Zhang*, Kexin Tan*, Ming Zhang*, et al.
Guoqiang Zhang*, Kexin Tan*, Ming Zhang*, Li Ju, Wenqing Jing, Zhonghan Yue, Jiayi Chen, Shiqiang Wu, Shaofan Liu, Yue Zhang, Yuankai Ying, Yang Shi, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
arXiv preprint, 2026. [paper] [code] [dataset]
OpenNovelty — An LLM-Powered Agentic System for Verifiable Scholarly Novelty Assessment
Ming Zhang*, Kexin Tan*, Yueyuan Huang*, et al.
Ming Zhang*, Kexin Tan*, Yueyuan Huang*, Yujiong Shen, Chunchun Ma, Li Ju, Xinran Zhang, Yuhui Wang, Wenqing Jing, Jingyi Deng, Huayu Sha, Binze Hu, Jingqi Tong, Changhao Jiang, Yage Geng, Yuankai Ying, Yue Zhang, Zhangyue Yin, Zhiheng Xi, Shihan Dou, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
arXiv preprint, 2026. [paper] [code] [project]
LLMEval-Fair — A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study on Robust and Fair Evaluation of Large Language Models
Ming Zhang*, Yujiong Shen*, Jingyi Deng*, Yuhui Wang*, Huayu Sha, Kexin Tan, et al.
Ming Zhang*, Yujiong Shen*, Jingyi Deng*, Yuhui Wang*, Huayu Sha, Kexin Tan, Qiyuan Peng, Yue Zhang, Junzhe Wang, Shichun Liu, Yueyuan Huang, Jingqi Tong, Changhao Jiang, Yilong Wu, Zhihao Zhang, Mingqi Wu, Mingxu Chai, Zhiheng Xi, Shihan Dou, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026 Main. [paper] [code]
LLMEval-Logic — A Solver-Verified Chinese Benchmark for Logical Reasoning of LLMs with Adversarial Hardening
Ming Zhang*, Qiyuan Peng*, Yinxi Wei, Yujiong Shen, Kexin Tan, et al.
Ming Zhang*, Qiyuan Peng*, Yinxi Wei, Yujiong Shen, Kexin Tan, Yuhui Wang, Zhenghao Xiang, Junjie Ye, Zhangyue Yin, Zhiheng Xi, Shihan Dou, Tao Gui, Maxm Pan, Ruizhi Yang, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
arXiv preprint, 2026. [paper]
TaxoBench — Can Deep Research Agents Retrieve and Organize? Evaluating the Synthesis Gap with Expert Taxonomies
Ming Zhang*, Jiabao Zhuang*, Wenqing Jing*, Kexin Tan*, et al.
Ming Zhang*, Jiabao Zhuang*, Wenqing Jing*, Kexin Tan*, Ziyu Kong, Jingyi Deng, Yujiong Shen, Yuhui Wang, Zhenghao Xiang, Qiyuan Peng, Yuhang Zhao, Ning Luo, Renzhe Zheng, Jiahui Lin, Mingqi Wu, Long Ma, Shihan Dou, Maxm Pan, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
arXiv preprint, 2026. [paper]
WisPaper — Your AI Scholar Search Engine
Li Ju*, Jun Zhao*, …, Kexin Tan, et al.
Li Ju*, Jun Zhao*, Mingxu Chai, Ziyu Shen, Xiangyang Wang, Yage Geng, Chunchun Ma, Hao Peng, Guangbin Li, Tao Li, Chengyong Liao, Fu Wang, Xiaolong Wang, Junshen Chen, Rui Gong, Shijia Liang, Feiyan Li, Ming Zhang, Kexin Tan, Junjie Ye, Zhiheng Xi, Shihan Dou, Tao Gui, Yuankai Ying, Yang Shi, Yue Zhang, Qi Zhang
Preprint, 2026. [paper]

*Co-first authors.

Selected experience:

Research Assistant Intern, NLP Lab, Fudan University
Shanghai, China — Oct 2025 to present
Language-model evaluation and interdisciplinary benchmark research at the intersection of logic and NLP.
Growth Lead, Data & Strategy, 1Token Inc.
Shanghai / Remote — Aug 2021 to Jun 2025
Served 50+ institutions worldwide. Built global institution databases, analyzed lead pipelines and funding networks, designed product-led-growth trials, automated cross-team workflows, and improved online growth by 150% through website and SEO optimization.
Research and Strategy Internships
Airwallex; MioTech; Fudan Green Finance Center
Operations strategy, ESG data analysis, economic research assistance, and green-finance literature review.

Education:

The University of Tokyo
M.Eng., Technology Management for Innovation — Apr 2026 to present

Georgia Institute of Technology
Online M.S. in Computer Science — 2024 to 2025
Withdrew from OMSCS due to scheduling conflicts with work.

Fudan University
B.S., Mathematical Economics — 2018 to 2022

Chengdu Foreign Languages School
2012 to 2018 — Graduated with First Place.