Jiaqi Xiong

Jiaqi Xiong

Master student at University of Oxford.

Hi! I am Jiaqi Xiong (熊嘉琪)

I am a Master student in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. I obtained my dual bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Aberdeen (with first-degree honours) and South China Normal University (SCNU) in 2025, where I completed my thesis under supervision of Chris Norval. My research focuses on applying graph neural networks (GNNs) to the biological/social sciences and sports analytics, and building trustworthy Agentic AI systems.

🙋 I am actively seeking PhD positions for Fall 2026 and RA/intern position for 2026 summer! If you are interested in me, please contact me!

🔥 News

  • 2025.11:  🎉 One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025 workshop.
  • 2025.10:  🎉 Joined the University of Oxford as a master student.
  • 2025.06:  🎉 Obtain bachelor’s degree from University of Aberdeen and South China Normal University.
  • 2025.06:  🎉 One paper accepted to BMC Bioinfomatics.
  • 2025.01:  🎉 One paper accepted to 33th conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology.

📖 Educations

  • 2025.10 - 2026.06, Master of Science in Social Data Science, University of Oxford.
  • 2021.09 - 2025.06, Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence, University of Aberdeen.
  • 2021.09 - 2025.06, Bachelor of Engineering in Artificial Intelligence, South China Normal University.

📝 Publications

  • Psychometrically Grounded Evaluation of LLM Personas
    Jiaqi Xiong
    PersonaLLM Workshop @ NeurIPS 2025

  • Cross-Attention Graph Neural Networks for Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks with Skewed Degree Distribution
    Jiaqi Xiong*, Nan Yin*, Shiyang Liang*, Haoyang Li, Yingxu Wang, Duo Ai, Fang Pan, Jingjie Wang
    BMC Bioinformatics, Paper code

  • MutBERT: Probabilistic Genome Representation Improves Genomics Foundation Models
    Weicai Long, Houcheng Su, Jiaqi Xiong, Yanlin Zhang
    ISMB 2025 paper

  • PillarTrack: Boosting Pillar Representation for Transformer-based 3D Single Object Tracking on Point Clouds
    Weisheng Xu*, Sifan Zhou*, Jiaqi Xiong, Ziyu Zhao, Zhihang Yuan
    Preprint paper

🎖 Honors and Award

🏅Honors and Scholarship

  • 2025.06 Honorary Scholarship for Undergraduate Graduates, Aberdeen Institute of South China Normal University.
  • 2025.03 First Prize, Innovation Award Scholarship, South China Normal University.
  • 2025.01 First Prize, Outstanding Student Scholarship, South China Normal University.
  • 2024.02 Second Prize, Outstanding Student Scholarship, South China Normal University.
  • 2023.03 Second Prize, Outstanding Student Scholarship, South China Normal University.

🏆Competition Awards

  • 2025.04 Silver Prize, China International College Students’ Innovation Competition 2025.
  • 2024.08 Third Prize, National Final of China Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Competition.
  • 2024.07 First Prize, Guangdong College Computer Design Competition.
  • 2024.07 FIrst Prize, Network Technology Challenge of China Collegiate Computing Competition.
  • 2024.05 Silver Prize, The 14th “Challenge Cup” Guangdong College Students Entrepreneurship Competition.
  • 2024.04 Second Prize, The 15th Lanqiao Cup National Software Competition.
  • 2023.11 Second Prize, Asia-Pacific Mathematical Modeling Contest (APMCM).
  • 2023.10 Second Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modelling (CUMCM).
  • 2023.05 Honorable Mention, Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) 2023.