Ruochi Li😺

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at North Carolina State University, advised by Dr. Edward Gehringer and co-supervised by Dr. Junhua Ding. I also work closely with Dr. Haihua Chen and Dr. Yang Zhang. My research focuses on AI for Science (AI4Science) and multimodal large language models, with particular emphasis on scientific novelty assessment, AI-assisted peer review, and layout-grounded evidence retrieval and reasoning in multimodal GraphRAG.

I have published multiple papers at leading conferences, including NeurIPS, WWW, EMNLP, and ICDM. Drawing on language modeling and multimodal learning, my work aims to support scientific evaluation and discovery while advancing AI capabilities in complex, knowledge-intensive tasks.

Ruochi Li
News

Sep. 2026 One paper accepted to NeurIPS.

Aug. 2026 One paper accepted to EMNLP.

May 2026 I joined Meituan as an AI Agent Engineering Intern.

Jan. 2026 One paper accepted to WWW.

Aug. 2025 One paper accepted to ICDM.

Publications

For a complete list, see my Google Scholar profile.

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TopoGraphRAG-Bench construction pipeline for single-hop retrieval, bridge-chain reasoning, multi-source synthesis, and counterfactual topology validation. TopoGraphRAG-Bench: Evaluating Multimodal GraphRAG on Layout-Grounded Evidence Reasoning

Ruochi Li, Jianzhe Lin, Haoxuan Zhang, Haihua Chen, Junhua Ding, Edward Gehringer, Yang Zhang

NeurIPS 2026

A topology-aware benchmark for multimodal GraphRAG, assessing the retrieval and composition of heterogeneous, layout-grounded document evidence under controlled reasoning topologies.

MetaGAI benchmark construction and validation framework, combining multi-source evidence retrieval, multi-agent draft generation and synthesis, and human expert validation. MetaGAI: A Large-Scale and High-Quality Benchmark for Generative AI Model and Data Card Generation

Haoxuan Zhang, Ruochi Li, Yang Zhang, Zhenni Liang, Junhua Ding, Ting Xiao, Haihua Chen

Findings of EMNLP 2026

A large-scale benchmark for generative AI documentation, combining cross-source evidence triangulation, multi-agent curation, and human-in-the-loop validation to assess the faithfulness and completeness of model and data cards.

AdaQE-CG framework combining MetaGAI dataset construction, context-aware query expansion for intra-paper extraction, and inter-card completion using the MetaGAI pool. AdaQE-CG: Adaptive Query Expansion for Web-Scale Generative AI Model and Data Card Generation

Haoxuan Zhang, Ruochi Li, Zhenni Liang, Mehri Sattari, Phat Vo, Collin Qu, Ting Xiao, Junhua Ding, Yang Zhang, Haihua Chen

WWW 2026

An adaptive retrieval-augmented framework that integrates context-aware query expansion with cross-card knowledge transfer to generate comprehensive, structured documentation for generative AI models and datasets.

Evaluation framework for LLM-generated scientific peer reviews, including section classification, review collection and generation, knowledge graph construction, and comparative analysis. Unveiling the Merits and Defects of LLMs in Automatic Review Generation for Scientific Papers

Ruochi Li, Haoxuan Zhang, Edward Gehringer, Ting Xiao, Junhua Ding, Haihua Chen

ICDM 2025 Best Poster Award

A systematic investigation of LLM-generated scientific peer reviews, combining semantic and graph-structural analyses to characterize their descriptive strengths, limitations in critical assessment, and sensitivity to paper quality.

ReviewGuard framework for peer review acquisition, review categorization and annotation, deficient review feature analysis, and detection model development. ReviewGuard: Enhancing Deficient Peer Review Detection via LLM-Driven Data Augmentation

Haoxuan Zhang, Ruochi Li, Sarthak Shrestha, Shree Harshini Mamidala, Revanth Putta, Arka Krishan Aggarwal, Ting Xiao, Junhua Ding, Haihua Chen

JCDL 2025

An LLM-driven framework for identifying deficient scientific peer reviews, combining human-validated annotation and targeted synthetic augmentation to strengthen automated review quality assessment.

Four roles of LLMs in scientific innovation: scientist, collaborator, assistant, and evaluator, organized by autonomy, cognitive function, and scientific contribution. Evolving Roles of LLMs in Scientific Innovation: Assistant, Collaborator, Scientist, and Evaluator

Haoxuan Zhang, Ruochi Li, Yang Zhang, Ting Xiao, Jiangping Chen, Junhua Ding, Haihua Chen

arXiv preprint, 2025 (updated 2026)

A role-based synthesis of LLMs in scientific innovation, examining how autonomy, cognitive function, and human oversight shape their capabilities as research assistants, collaborators, scientists, and evaluators.

Quality-aware medical concept normalization workflow combining data quality evaluation, quality improvement, LLM-based augmentation, and multi-source data fusion. Quality-aware multi-source data fusion and enhancement for Medical Concept Normalization using Large Language Models

Yuhan Zhou, Ruochi Li, Ana Cleveland, Junhua Ding, Kewei Sha, Haihua Chen

Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2026

A quality-aware framework for medical concept normalization, integrating controlled LLM-based augmentation with multi-source data fusion to expand concept coverage and address long-tailed clinical terminology.

Medical concept normalization modeling paradigms, including CNNs, RNNs, transformer encoders, graph neural networks, and large language models. A comprehensive survey on medical concept normalization: Datasets, techniques, applications, and future directions

Haihua Chen, Yuhan Zhou, Ruochi Li, Aryan Murthy Illa, Ana Cleveland, Junhua Ding

Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2026

A comprehensive review of medical concept normalization, organizing datasets, ontologies, modeling paradigms, and evaluation practices to clarify the field's methodological evolution and open challenges.

Enhancing data quality in medical concept normalization through large language models

Haihua Chen, Ruochi Li, Ana Cleveland, Junhua Ding

Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2025

A data-centric investigation of medical concept normalization, examining how LLM-based augmentation and systematic quality assessment affect dataset integrity, model performance, and the reliability of evaluation.

Experience

Academic Experience

2023 – Present

North Carolina State University

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science

Research Advisor: Dr. Edward Gehringer

2021 – 2023

Northeastern University

Master's Degree in Computer Science

2017 – 2021

North Carolina State University

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Work Experience

May 2026 – Aug 2026

Meituan

AI Agent Engineering Intern

June 2022 – Aug 2022

Karyopharm Therapeutics

Data Scientist Intern

Service and Teaching

Journal Reviewer

  • Computer Standards & Interfaces
  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
  • Journal of Cloud Computing
  • The Electronic Library

Conference Reviewer

  • ACL
  • WWW
  • ICDM
  • JCDL

Teaching

Teaching Assistant

  • CSC 216 — Software Development Fundamentals
  • CSC 517 — Object-Oriented Design and Development
  • CSC 422 — Automated Learning and Data Analysis
Awards and Honors
2025

Best Poster Award

25th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)

2025

Student Travel Award

25th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)

2024

Best Paper Award

36th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)

2024

Paper Award (Third Prize)

South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association (SCC/MLA)

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