I am a Predoctoral Research Fellow at CSSI, Northwestern University, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Dashun Wang. I received my M.S. in Computer Science from Northwestern University in 2025 and my B.S. from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in 2024. I was also a visiting student in computer science at UC Berkeley in 2023.
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Research
GraphICL: Unlocking Graph Learning Potential in LLMs through Structured Prompt Design
Yuanfu Sun*, Zhengnan Ma*, Yi Fang, Jing Ma, Qiaoyu Tan (* equal contribution)
NAACL 2025
A benchmark of structured prompt templates for evaluating LLMs on text-attributed graphs; general-purpose LLMs with GraphICL outperform specialized graph LLMs and GNNs in resource-constrained and out-of-domain settings.
GraphICL: Unlocking Graph Learning Potential in LLMs through Structured Prompt Design
Yuanfu Sun*, Zhengnan Ma*, Yi Fang, Jing Ma, Qiaoyu Tan (* equal contribution)
NAACL 2025
A benchmark of structured prompt templates for evaluating LLMs on text-attributed graphs; general-purpose LLMs with GraphICL outperform specialized graph LLMs and GNNs in resource-constrained and out-of-domain settings.
Peer Review and the Exposure and Adoption of New Ideas
Binglu Wang, Zhengnan Ma, Dashun Wang, Brian Uzzi
Revise and resubmit at Nature Communications
Using a natural experiment covering over half a million peer review invitations, we show that seeing a manuscript's core ideas shapes the later citing behavior of reviewer invitees who decline, revealing peer review as an engine of idea diffusion.
Peer Review and the Exposure and Adoption of New Ideas
Binglu Wang, Zhengnan Ma, Dashun Wang, Brian Uzzi
Revise and resubmit at Nature Communications
Using a natural experiment covering over half a million peer review invitations, we show that seeing a manuscript's core ideas shapes the later citing behavior of reviewer invitees who decline, revealing peer review as an engine of idea diffusion.
Nanoscope: A General-Purpose Agentic Pipeline to Extract Technology Outcomes
Giorgio Tripodi, Zhengnan Ma, Filipi Silva, Siddharth Patwardhan, Shreyash S. Hadke, Dominic P. Goronzy, Vinod K. Sangwan, Mark Hersam, Dashun Wang
Manuscript in preparation
Nanoscope: A General-Purpose Agentic Pipeline to Extract Technology Outcomes
Giorgio Tripodi, Zhengnan Ma, Filipi Silva, Siddharth Patwardhan, Shreyash S. Hadke, Dominic P. Goronzy, Vinod K. Sangwan, Mark Hersam, Dashun Wang
Manuscript in preparation
Quantifying Progress along Technological Trajectories: Evidence from Perovskite Solar Cell Research
Giorgio Tripodi, Youwei He, Zhengnan Ma, Dashun Wang
Manuscript in preparation
Quantifying Progress along Technological Trajectories: Evidence from Perovskite Solar Cell Research
Giorgio Tripodi, Youwei He, Zhengnan Ma, Dashun Wang
Manuscript in preparation
Competition at the Frontier: Redefining the U.S.–China Technological Race
Renli Wu, Giorgio Tripodi, Zhengnan Ma, Yifan Qian, Dashun Wang
Research in progress
Competition at the Frontier: Redefining the U.S.–China Technological Race
Renli Wu, Giorgio Tripodi, Zhengnan Ma, Yifan Qian, Dashun Wang
Research in progress