Jiatao Li

I am a master’s student at Carnegie Mellon University, working with Prof. Louis-Philippe Morency. I received my bachelor’s degree from Peking University, where I worked with Prof. Xiaojun Wan. I was an undergraduate visiting researcher (UGVR) at Stanford University, advised by Prof. Diyi Yang.

I study how AI systems adapt to tasks, users, and social contexts.

Publications

• When AI-Text Detectors Become Evidence: Rethinking Detection for Human Decisions.
  Jiatao Li, Mao Ye, Xinyu Hu, Cheng Peng, Xunjian Yin, Xiaojun Wan
  EMNLP 2026 (Findings). (Long Paper) [pdf]

• Who Writes What: Unveiling the Impact of Author Roles on AI-generated Text Detection
  Jiatao Li, Xiaojun Wan
  ACL 2025. (Long Paper) [pdf]

• Where Do LLMs Go Wrong? Diagnosing Automated Peer Review via Aspect-Guided Multi-Level Perturbation
  Jiatao Li, Yanheng Li, Xinyu Hu, Mingqi Gao, Xiaojun Wan
  CIKM 2025. (Long Paper) [pdf]

• Evaluating Self-Generated Documents for Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Large Language Models
  Jiatao Li, Xinyu Hu, Xunjian Yin, Xiaojun Wan
  NAACL 2025 (Findings). (Long Paper) [pdf]

Preprints

• SMART-RAG: Selection using Determinantal Matrices for Augmented Retrieval
  Jiatao Li, Xinyu Hu, Xiaojun Wan
  arXiv:2409.13992 [pdf]

• Analyzing Cognitive Differences Among Large Language Models through the Lens of Social Worldview
  Jiatao Li, Yanheng Li, Xiaojun Wan
  arXiv:2505.01967 [pdf]

Awards

• 2026: Beijing Outstanding Graduate
• 2026: Peking University Outstanding Graduate
• 2025: Peking University Person of the Year Nomination (45/65k+, blog spotlight in Chinese)
• 2025: National Scholarship (1%, Rank1)
• 2025: Peking University Merit Student (Rank1)
• 2024: Leo KoGuan Scholarship (1%)
• 2023-2024: Peking University Merit Student Pacesetter (1%, Rank 1)
• 2024: CSDN Blog Star of the Year (Top 87)
• 2023: Peking University Person of the Year Nomination (Youngest Nominee, 45/65k+, blog spotlight in Chinese)
• 2023: Peking University May 4th Scholarship (1%, Rank 1)
• 2023: CSDN Blog Star (Beijing Top10)
• 2023: Kaggle House Price Prediction Competition (1%)
• 2023: Tianchi BMW Hackathon (Rank 1)
• 2023: Peking University Hackathon WebGPU Track (Rank 2)
• 2023: Greater Bay Area International Algorithm Competition, Finalist