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.