Hang Jiang

@hjian42

Assistant Professor at @Northeastern | PhD from @MIT. Prev: @allen_ai @googleai @stanfordnlp. Views my own.

Cambridge, MA

hjian42.github.io

Joined March 2019

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Hang Jiang
@hjian42
Oct 11
We live in an increasingly divided world. Good facilitation helps us listen, share perspectives, and bridge differences. I believe AI can bring people closer together, not by replacing human dialogue, but by making it better. 🤝 Excited to share FaciliTrain at #CSCW2026! We use
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Hang Jiang
@hjian42
Sep 14
Happy to be part of the team behind Social Simulation Arena and proud that Northeastern is contributing to this cross-institutional effort to build a rigorous, prospective standard for evaluating social simulation. Excited to see where this goes! #NortheasternUniversity
Social Simulation Arena
@socialsimarena
Sep 14
Social simulation is now a product. Evaluation still has no common standard. What if we tested every simulator against the real future? We built Social Simulation Arena with researchers from MIT, Stanford, Harvard, CMU, UC Berkeley, and beyond. Persona-prompted populations.
Hang Jiang
@hjian42
Sep 10
Proud to be part of this work and especially proud of the team behind it! HugAgent asks a question I find increasingly important: Can LLMs simulate not just what people believe, but how individuals reason and change their minds? Excited to see this work at #EMNLP2026!
Chance Jiajie Li
@jajamooa
Sep 10
tl;dr: Give an LLM a person's own words, and it can recover what they believe surprisingly well. But predicting how that same person will update their beliefs is much harder. More transcript or memory doesn't close the gap. Our paper, HugAgent: A Human Simulation Benchmark for
Hang Jiang
@hjian42
Aug 17
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Hang Jiang
@hjian42
Dec 17, 2025
A bit late to share, but excited to be starting a new chapter. I defended my PhD from @MIT in May 2025. In January 2026, I will be joining Northeastern University (@Northeastern) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, with a joint appointment in the D'Amore-McKim School of
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