Hongyi Du ☕️
Hongyi Du Hong-yee Du

Incoming M.S. Student & Research Assistant

About Me

Hongyi Du is an incoming M.S. student and researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Jiaxuan You, Prof. Jiawei Han, and Prof. ChengXiang Zhai. His research centers on LLM multi-agent systems — spanning multi-agent communication protocols, self-evolving and organization-level agents, and graph-grounded agents. He is the first author of ProtocolBench (accepted to ICML 2026), which benchmarks LLM multi-agent communication protocols and introduces ProtocolRouter for adaptive protocol selection, and co-first author of MultiAgentBench (ACL 2025, 200+ citations). He currently leads SocioGenesis, a long-horizon LLM-agent organization testbed (a Together AI collaboration), and contributes to the UIUC ATLAS Moonshot on graph-grounded educational agents.

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Interests
  • LLM Multi-Agent Systems
  • LLM-Agent Organizations & Self-Evolution
  • Multi-Agent Communication Protocols
  • Graph-Grounded Agents
Education
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

📚 My Research

I dive into the wild world of LLM multi-agent systems — communication protocols, self-evolving and organization-level agents, and graph-grounded agents — building plug-and-play frameworks where data, simulations, and evaluation metrics party together at scale.

Please reach out to collaborate! 🤝

Pinned Publications
Recent Publications
(2026). Ψ-Bench: Evaluating Persona-Sensitive Influencing in Persuasive Dialogues. Under review at EMNLP ‘26.
(2025). Which LLM Multi-Agent Protocol to Choose?. In ICML ‘26.
(2025). ModelingAgent: Bridging LLMs and Mathematical Modeling for Real-World Challenges. In EMNLP ’25 Findings.
(2025). MultiAgentBench: Evaluating the Collaboration and Competition of LLM Agents. In ACL ’25.
(2024). EscapeBench: Towards Advancing Creative Intelligence of Language Model Agents. In ACL ’25.
Recent News

Joined the UIUC ATLAS Moonshot 🚀

Invited by Prof. Jiawei Han to join the UIUC ATLAS Moonshot, building an Upskill-as-You-Go AI education and reskilling ecosystem!