🙋 About Me

I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of Engineering at University of Cambridge, Churchill College, supervised by Dr.Stephan Goetz. My research is about the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in the patent domain, including patent analysis and patent text generation. If you are interested in related topics, please feel free to contact me!

Prior to this, I obtained my master degree in Department of Computer Science and Technology at University of Cambridge. My thesis was focused on language models and federated learning, supervised by Dr.Nic Lane. I received my bachelor degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence at the University of Nottingham.

Last updated: 2025.03

⭐ Research Interests

• General LLMs: Investigating the fundamental capabilities, limitations, and optimization of LLMs, such as fine-tuning and evaluation methods.

• LLM Agents: Developing LLM-based agents for decision-making, reasoning, and task-specific adaptations in diverse domains.

• LLMs for Patents: Applying LLMs to solve patent-specific challenges, such as patent generation and analysis, to support intellectual property professionals.

I am open to collaborations in all related areas. I am also willing to help if you are undergraduate students interested in learning how to conduct research with LLMs or planning to apply to Cambridge.

🔥 News

• 2025.03:  🎉🎉 Our survey is accepted to Artificial Intelligence Review.
• 2025.01:  🎉🎉 Two papers are accepted to NAACL 2025.
• 2023.10:  🎉🎉 I start my PhD at University of Cambridge.

📖 Educations

• 2023.10 - 2027.09 (now), PhD in Engineering, University of Cambridge.
• 2022.10 - 2023.07, MPhil in Advanced Computer Science (Distinction), University of Cambridge.
• 2018.09 - 2022.08, Bsc in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence (First-class), University of Nottingham.

📝 Publications

• Artificial Intelligence Review, IF=10.7 Natural Language Processing in Patents: A Survey, Lekang Jiang, Stephan Goetz.

• NAACL 2025 Can Large Language Models Generate High-quality Patent Claims?, Lekang Jiang, Caiqi Zhang, Pascal A Scherz, Stephan Goetz.

• NAACL 2025 Patent-CR: A Dataset for Patent Claim Revision, Lekang Jiang, Pascal A Scherz, Stephan Goetz.

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💬 Invited Talks

• 2022.06, Flower Summit 2022. The C++ ecosystem for Flower, an open-source Federated Learning Framework.

💻 Internships

• 2023.06 - 2023.08, Volemic, London, UK.
• 2021.06 - 2022.02, Cambridge Machine Learning Systems Lab, Cambridge, UK.

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024.04, Master’s Prize.
• 2022.07, Excellent Graduate.
• 2020.07, Dean’s Scholarship.
• 2019.12, Dream Scholarship.
• 2019.07, Dean’s Scholarship.

👀 Outside Academia

• Badminton, I am an active member of the Churchill College Badminton Team, regularly competing in inter-college matches.
• Mobile Games, I play Honor of Kings (王者荣耀), where I have achieved 100 stars in Ranked Matches.

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