Xinnong Zhang

Xinnong Zhang

Ph.D. student

I am Xinnong Zhang (张辛农), a 4th-year Ph.D. student at Fudan University. I’m advised by Prof. Zhongyu Wei, and I carry out my research at Shanghai Innovation Institute (SII) and the Fudan DISC Lab. Currently, I’m a visiting researcher at King’s College London (KCL), advised by Prof. Yulan He and Hanqi Yan. My email is xnzhang23 AT m DOT fudan DOT edu DOT cn.

Research Interests

Currently, I’m excited about the following topics:

  • Bootstrapping Computational Social Science via Large Language Models
  • Social Simulation Powered by LLM Agents
  • Auditable Future Prediction

What’s New

  • [2026.06.04] Let’s see how memes can influence LLM-generated stance on social media 😼 Revising Context, Shifting Simulated Stance (EMNLP26).
  • [2026.04.17] Our Survey on Social Simulation has been accepted by ACM Computing Surveys!
  • [2025.04.14] SocioVerse is now released with a 1-million-user dataset open source! Try on [Homepage] <!–
  • [2025.01.23] AgentSense has been accepted by NAACL’25 main conference!
  • [2024.12.05] Our Survey on Social Simulation has been released! [Paper], [Repo].
  • [2024.10.29] AI-Press, AgentSense, and ElectionSim, altogether three new works are now released! It’s been quite tough days, and now I’m planning on a vacation : ) –>

Publications