Hi, I'm Jiacheng Pang.
I build multimodal and multi-agent LLM systems with applications in affective computing and social intelligence.
I am currently a CS(AI) Master's student at USC Viterbi (graduating in December 2025).
I am also working as a research assistant at the
Intelligent Human Perception Lab, USC ICT
with Prof. Mohammad soleymani and
Ashutosh Chaubey, where I focus on building and evaluating multimodal LLMs for paralinguistic understanding.
I am also working at the Melady Lab at USC Viterbi
with Prof. Yan Liu and Wei Yang
on multi-agent collaboration and reinforcement learning.
Areas of Interests:
Multimodality
Multi-agent
Large Language Models
Multimodality
Multi-agent
Large Language Models
Education
- University of Southern California
M.S. Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), GPA: 3.92/4.00, (Jan. 2024 - Dec. 2025) - Northeastern University
B.S. Computer Science, GPA: 3.74/4.00, (Sep. 2018 - May 2022)
Honors: Dean's List of all semesters, magna cum laude
Publications
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AVERE: Improving Audiovisual Emotion Reasoning with Preference Optimization.ICLR 2026Adaptive Collaboration with Humans: Metacognitive Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent LLMs with Continual Learning.ICLR 2026Toward Evolutionary Intelligence: LLM-based Agentic Systems with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learningunder review at KeAIA Survey of Reasoning and Agentic Systems in Time Series with Large Language Models.under review at TMLR
Experience
Graduate ResearcherJune 2025 - Present · Los Angeles, USAGraduate ResearcherJune 2025 - Present · Los Angeles, USASoftware EngineerSept. 2022 - Nov. 2023 · Yinchuan, ChinaData Science Researcher InternJan. 2021 - July 2021 · Beijing, China