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Leheng Sheng — CV

Education

National University of Singapore · 2024.8 – present
Ph.D. student, School of Computing

Tsinghua University · 2022.9 – 2024.6
M.S. in Finance (Fintech), School of Economics and Management

National University of Singapore · 2023.6 – 2023.12
Visiting Student, School of Computing, NExT++ Research Center
Supervised by Prof. Tat-Seng Chua and Dr. An Zhang

Southeast University · 2018.9 – 2022.6
B.E. in Computer Science and Technology, Chien-Shiung Wu College (Honors)

Bashu Secondary School · 2015.9 – 2018.6

Internships

Research Intern, Pretrain Team · ByteDance Seed · Aug 2025 – present
Topic: General & long-context LLM reasoning and pretrain-stage reasoning.

Research Intern · NExT++ Lab, NUS · Jun 2023 – Jan 2024
Topic: LLM-based agent simulation for recommendation; large-scale LLM agent simulation platform.

Quantitative Research Assistant · CITIC Securities, Research Department · Mar 2021 – Nov 2021
Topic: Fund style classification.

Honors and Awards

• Second Class Academic Scholarship at Tsinghua University (Top 10%)
• National Scholarship at Southeast University (Top 3%)
• Outstanding Graduate (Top 6%)
• Outstanding Student Leader of Jiangsu Province
• Finalist at the Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM), 2020
• Model of Merit Student of Southeast University (Top 1%)