About Me

Hi! I am Yijun Ma, a second-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, advised by Prof. Fanny Ye. My research focuses on machine learning and agentic AI, especially foundation models for structured data, self-evolving LLM agents and their applications in healthcare and scientific discovery. Specifically, the topics mainly cover the following aspects:

◦ Graph Learning: Pattern-centric temporal graph learning (TGPM), General graph foundation model (Survey).

◦ AI for Science and Social Good: LLMs and agentic systems for scientific discovery (MDForge, SupraBench, Survey); Policy evaluation for opioid epidemic (Policy4OOD).

◦ Self-Evolving Agentic AI: World model based agents (ProPlay, OCM), Agent for long-horizon planning (FLARE).

For more details, please check my CV here. Feel free to reach out me via email if you are interested in my work and would like to explore potential collaborations.

News

• ✨[2026.08] Two papers are accepted to EMNLP 2026.
• [2026.06] One paper is accepted to GFM@ICML (Oral).
• [2025.10] We have released LLMs4ALL, an extensive survey on LLMs for research and applications in various academic disciplines.

Services

• Reviewer, CIKM 2026.

Contact

• Email: yma7 [AT] nd [DOT] edu.
• Office: 247 Fitzpatrick Hall of Engineering.
• Location: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46565.