Zhenze Mo

Hi, my name is Zhenze Mo (莫镇泽). I study the relationship between human cognition and machine intelligence, using computational methods to understand human behavior and to design more interpretable and adaptive AI systems. I am a Master’s student at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University.

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Publications (* equal contribution)

SUITE: Scaling Up Individualized Theory-of-Mind Evaluation in Large Language Models
Zhenze Mo*, Chance Jiajie Li*, Ao Qu, Yuhan Tang, Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson, Jinhua Zhao
ToM4AI Workshop @ AAAI, 2026 (Spotlight).
HugAgent: Benchmarking LLMs for Simulation of Individualized Human Reasoning
Chance Jiajie Li*, Zhenze Mo*, Yuhan Tang*, Ao Qu, Jiayi Wu, Kaiya Ivy Zhao, Yulu Gan, Jie Fan, Jiangbo Yu, Hang Jiang, Paul Pu Liang, Jinhua Zhao, Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor, Kent Larson
EMNLP, 2026 (Main Conference, Oral).
PersonaLLM Workshop @ NeurIPS, 2025 (Oral).
Simulating Society Requires Simulating Thought
Chance Jiajie Li*, Jiayi Wu*, Zhenze Mo, Ao Qu, Yuhan Tang, Kaiya Ivy Zhao, Yulu Gan, Jie Fan, Jiangbo Yu, Jinhua Zhao, Paul Liang, Luis Alonso, Kent Larson
NeurIPS, 2025 Position Track (5.7%).

Experience

Columbia University Columbia Machine Learning Summer School
Admitted at a 16% acceptance rate
NYC, USA
Summer 2026
MIT JTL MIT JTL Summer Camp
Research Intern
Mentor: Qu Ao, Chance Jiajie Li
Boston, USA
06/2025 - 10/2025
MIT-Tongji MIT-Tongji City Science Lab
Software Engineer
Boston, USA
10/2023 - 10/2024

Teaching

Northeastern Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Teaching Assistant for CS7150 - Deep Learning (Advisor: Lorenzo Torresani), Spring 2026
Teaching Assistant for CS7150 - Deep Learning (Advisor: Steve Schmidt), Fall 2025
Teaching Assistant for CS5180 - Reinforcement Learning (Advisor: Robert Platt), Spring 2025
Stanford Stanford University - Code in Place
Section Leader for CS106A
04/2024 – 06/2024

Academic Service & Talk

Invited Speaker, "Toward Reasoning-Faithful Human Simulation: Modeling human reasoning beyond behavior imitation" (Lightning Talk), Khoury College PhD Open House, Northeastern University, March 2026.
Conference Reviewer: Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2026); Industry Track, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).
Workshop Reviewer: Social Simulation with LLMs @ COLM 2026; Trustworthy AI for Good Workshop @ ICML 2026; Technical AI Governance Research Workshop @ ICML 2026; Language, Agent, and World Models (LAW) Workshop @ NeurIPS 2025.

Miscellaneous

PADI Advanced Open Water & Enriched Air Nitrox Certified Diver.

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