Education
HKUST(GZ)
Ph.D. Candidate, Data Science and Analytics Thrust. Spring intake, 2024. Supervised by Prof. Nan Tang and co-supervised by Prof. Yuyu Luo.
AI, Data & FinTech
I build trustworthy AI systems for data and decision intelligence.
Ph.D. Candidate at HKUST(GZ). Supervised by Prof. Nan Tang and co-supervised by Prof. Yuyu Luo. I am also a FinTech entrepreneur advocating trustworthy AI-native systems in finance. Want to learn more about our startup? Visit paradoox.ai.
- Academic:
- cli942@connect.hkust-gz.edu.cn
- Work:
- tiger@paradoox.ai
Research
Good Data for AI
Data cleaning and transformation for reliable AI systems, including weak-to-strong prompting with MegaTran.
Finance
Good AI for Funds
Live evaluation, trading-agent diagnostics, and strategy optimization through DeepFund, TradeLens, and EVOQUANT.
Venture
Paradoox AI
Founder & CEO, building enterprise SaaS for financial institutions to evaluate, diagnose, and manage AI agents.
Research
Selected publications
3 conference papers · 2 workshop papers · First / co-first author
* Equal contribution
EVOQUANT: Self-Evolving Verifier-Guided Strategy Optimization for Robust Quantitative Trading
Jie Mao*, Changlun Li*, Xiang Li, Qiqi Duan, Jinhui Yuan, Xiang Liu, Yuyu Luo, Jing Tang, Nan Tang
The 11th Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2026
Can Agentic Trading Systems Pay for Their Own Intelligence?
Qiqi Duan*, Changlun Li*, Chen Wang*, Fan Zhang, Mengxiang Wang, Dayi Miao, Peixian Ma, Jiangpeng Yan, Liyuan Chen, Shuoling Liu, Preslav Nakov, Yuyu Luo, Nan Tang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Time Travel is Cheating: Going Live with DeepFund for Real-Time Fund Investment Benchmarking
Changlun Li*, Yao Shi*, Chen Wang, Qiqi Duan, Runke Ruan, Weijie Huang, Haonan Long, Lijun Huang, Nan Tang, Yuyu Luo
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 39
Will LLMs be Professional at Fund Investment?
Changlun Li, Yao Shi, Yuyu Luo, Nan Tang
International Symposium on Large Language Models for Financial Services, IJCAI 2025
Oral Paper Award
Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation
Changlun Li, Chenyu Yang, Yuyu Luo, Ju Fan, Nan Tang
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 18(8), 2371–2384
Experience
Education and experience.
Aug 2025 – Present
Founder & CEO
Enterprise SaaS for agent evaluation, diagnosis, and management in financial institutions, bridging KYC to KYA (Know Your Agent).
Jan 2024 – Present
Ph.D. Candidate
HKUST(GZ), Guangzhou
Spring intake, 2024. Supervised by Prof. Nan Tang and co-supervised by Prof. Yuyu Luo. Research interests: AI agents for fund investment and data cleaning.
Jul 2020 – Jan 2024
Data Scientist
Measurable AI · Hong Kong
Transformed receipt data into alternative insights for market analysis and portfolio management.
Feb – Jul 2018
Exchange Student
Tsinghua University · Beijing
Exchange program in the Department of Electrical Engineering.
Sep 2015 – Jul 2020
B.Eng. in Information Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Minor in Computer Science.
Recognition
Merits & service
Personal merits
- Top 10 Most Outstanding Hong Kong Student in GBA 2026
- DSA Research Excellence Award 2025 (Senior Student Track)
Academic service
- Reviewer
- NeurIPS 2026 · ICLR 2027 · ACL ARR 2026 · NLPCC 2026
- Teaching Assistant
- INFO5000 · Fall 2025