Henry Peng Zou

Applied Scientist, Amazon

Joined

May 2023

Names

Henry Peng Zou (Preferred)

Emails

****@uic.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@amazon.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Applied Scientist

Amazon (amazon.com)

2025 – Present

PhD student

Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago (uic.edu)

2020 – 2025

Applied Scientist Intern

AWS AI Labs, Amazon (amazon.com)

2024 – 2024

Applied Scientist Intern

Amazon Fashion, Amazon (amazon.com)

2023 – 2023

Intern

Amazon (amazon.com)

2022 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Philip S. Yu

Present

Expertise

Large Language Models

2023 – Present

Vision Language Models

2023 – Present

Multimodal Learning

2022 – Present

Semi-Supervised Learning

2022 – Present

Machine Learning

2021 – Present

Publications

GAM: Hierarchical Graph Memory for LLM-based Agents
Zhaofen Wu, Hanrong Zhang, Fulin Lin, Wujiang Xu, Xinran Xu, Yankai Chen, Henry Peng Zou, Shaowen Chen, Weizhi Zhang, Xue Liu, Philip S. Yu, Hongwei Wang
- ICLR 2026 Workshop MemAgents Oral
- Readers: Everyone
DeepResearchGuard: Deep Research with Open Domain Evaluation and Multi-Stage Guardrails for Safety
Wei-Chieh Huang, Henry Peng Zou, Yaozu Wu, Weizhi Zhang, Yankai Chen, Dongyuan Li, Yangning Li, Angelo Zangari, Jizhou Guo, Liancheng Fang, Langzhou He, Chunyu Miao, Renhe Jiang, Philip S. Yu
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
PSG-Agent: Personality-Aware Safety Guardrail for LLM-based Agents
Yaozu Wu, Jizhou Guo, Dongyuan Li, Henry Peng Zou, Wei-Chieh Huang, Yankai Chen, Zhen Wang, Weizhi Zhang, Yangning Li, Meng Zhang, Renhe Jiang, Philip S. Yu
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
PersonaAgent: When Large Language Model Agents Meet Personalization at Test Time
Weizhi Zhang, Xinyang Zhang, Chenwei Zhang, Liangwei Yang, Jingbo Shang, Zhepei Wei, Henry Peng Zou, Zijie Huang, Zhengyang Wang, Yifan Gao, Xiaoman Pan, Lian Xiong, Jingguo Liu, Philip S. Yu, Xian Li
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
MUSE: Model-Agnostic Tabular Watermarking via Multi-Sample Selection
Liancheng Fang, Aiwei Liu, Henry Peng Zou, Yankai Chen, Hengrui Zhang, Zhongfen Deng, Philip S. Yu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Light-Search: Reducing Retrieval Cost in RAG via Curriculum-Based Policy Optimization
Sida Lin, Jiacheng Liu, Yankai Chen, Weixu Zhang, Henry Peng Zou, Hao Gu, Qiyuan Zhu, Xue Liu, Wei Xue, Yike Guo
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
RECODE-H: A Benchmark for Research Code Development with Interactive Human Feedback
Chunyu Miao, Henry Peng Zou, Yangning Li, Yankai Chen, Yibo Wang, Fangxin Wang, Yifan Li, Wooseong Yang, Bowei He, Xinni Zhang, Dianzhi Yu, Hanchen Yang, Hoang H Nguyen, Yue Zhou, Jie Yang, Jizhou Guo, Wenzhe Fan, Chin-Yuan Yeh, Panpan Meng, Liancheng Fang et al. (9 additional authors not shown)
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Adversarial Encoding Perturbation and Synthesis for Set Representation Auxiliary Learning
Yankai Chen, Xinni Zhang, Henry Peng Zou, Bowei He, Yangning Li, Philip S. Yu, Irwin King, Xue Liu
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
PersonaAgent: When Large Language Model Agents Meet Personalization at Test Time
Weizhi Zhang, Xinyang Zhang, Chenwei Zhang, Liangwei Yang, Jingbo Shang, Zhepei Wei, Henry Peng Zou, Zijie Huang, Zhengyang Wang, Yifan Gao, Xiaoman Pan, Lian Xiong, Jingguo Liu, Philip S. Yu, Xian Li
- MTI-LLM @ NeurIPS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Embracing Trustworthy Brain-Agent Collaboration as Paradigm Extension for Intelligent Assistive Technologies
Yankai Chen, Xinni Zhang, Yifei Zhang, Yangning Li, Henry Peng Zou, Chunyu Miao, Weizhi Zhang, Xue Liu, Philip S. Yu
- NeurIPS 2025 Position Paper Track
- Readers: Everyone

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