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Kaidi Zhang

Profile

I am a PhD researcher in the Analytics, Technology and Operations Department (ATOD) at Leeds University Business School. My current research focuses on using large language models (LLMs) to audit UK Modern Slavery Statements, aiming to help researchers, industry experts, and policymakers efficiently analyse large volumes of text.

Research interests

My research interests focus on complex reasoning and AI agents powered by large language models (LLMs), and their applications in healthcare and business.

Academic Activities & Honours:

  • Best Paper Award, Advances in Financial AI Workshop, ICLR 2025; Accepted at NeurIPS 2025 (Co-author).

  • Poster Presenter, 2026 MED Research Day, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen); Accepted at Nicotine & Tobacco Research and Machine Learning: Health.

  • Session Chair, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)

Qualifications

  • MSc
  • BSc