Yuanchen Bei

I am a Ph.D. Student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Hanghang Tong.

My research interests mainly include memory for (M)LLM agents, relational data mining, graph learning, and computational social science. In my free time, I am also interested in finance and economics.


News

  • 2026.01: 📖 Our new benchmark on “Multimodal Long-Term Memory for MLLM Agents” is available here.

Research Highlight

🤝 Open to collaboration: Please kindly reach out to me if you have cooperation interests in related topics!

Memory for (M)LLM Agents

Relational Data Mining

Graph Learning

  • General GNNs: CorGCN (KDD 2025), CMGNN (NeurIPS 2025)
  • Graph Pre-Training: CPDG (ICDE 2024)

Computational Social Science

  • E-Commerce Popularity Bias: USIM (NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight), ColdLLM (WSDM 2025)
  • AI for Social Good

Selected Open-Source Project

  • Mem-gallery: Benchmarking Multimodal Long-Term Conversational Memory for MLLM Agents. Including 10+ memory models with a new evaluation dataset. GitHub stars

  • ColdRec: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Cold-Start Recommendation. Including 20+ cold-start recommendation models with comprehensive evaluations. GitHub stars

  • Graph for AI Agents Literature Library GitHub stars

  • GraphRAG Literature Library GitHub stars

  • Cold-Start Recommendation Literature Library GitHub stars


Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Reviewer (KDD 2025, TNNLS)
  • National Scholarship (Bachelor, Master)
  • First Class Scholarship (Bachelor, Master)
  • Outstanding Graduate (Master)
  • Outstanding Undergraduate (Bachelor)

Academic Services

  • Conference Reviewer: ICLR (2025-2026), KDD (2024-2026), ICML 2026, WWW 2026, WSDM 2026, SIGIR 2025, SIGIR-AP 2025, MM 2025, CIKM 2025, ECAI 2024.
  • Journal Reviewer: ACM TKDD, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TII, IEEE TIP.

Experiences

  • 2025.03 - 2025.06, Research Intern, Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China.
  • 2024.06 - 2024.10, Research Assistant, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China.
  • 2023.05 - 2023.11, Research Intern, Alibaba Group, Hangzhou, China.
  • 2022.02 - 2022.08, Research Intern, Meituan, Beijing, China.