Wenxiao Zhang
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2026-07

Our paper MIRAGE: How Conversation State Shapes Historical Evidence Use in Multimodal Personal Agents was accepted at ACM MM 2026!

2026-06

Our paper CARE: Pre-Execution Command Verification for Shell-Executing LLM Agents was accepted at ISSRE 2026!

2026-01

Our paper "Enhancing reliability in LLM-integrated robotic systems: A unified approach to security and safety" was published in the Journal of Systems and Software!

2024-11

Joined Telstra as a Data Science Specialist, building GraphRAG and agentic retrieval for frontline customer service.

2024-03

Started my PhD in Computer Science at UWA, researching reliable and secure LLM agent systems!

2024-02

Began tutoring at UWA: Cloud Computing, Intelligent Agents, Web Development, Cybersecurity, and Databases.

About

I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UWA, building reliable and secure LLM agent systems, with a focus on agentic retrieval, multi-hop reasoning, multimodal agents, and execution safety.

Alongside research I build production AI. At Telstra I shipped an enterprise GraphRAG and agentic-retrieval platform for frontline customer service, with an automated RAG evaluation system delivered on Azure ML.

I also teach and tutor across a broad range of Computer Science units at UWA such as Cloud Computing, Intelligent Agents, Agile Web Development, Cybersecurity, and Databases, where I support students with technical concepts, practical lab work, and problem-solving skills.

  • LLM Agent Safety
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Multi-Hop Reasoning
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Knowledge Graphs

Education

PhD in Computer Science

The University of Western Australia

2024/03 – 2027/03 (expected) · Reliable and secure LLM agent systems

Master of Software Engineering

The University of Western Australia

2021/02 – 2023/07 · WAM 80.42

BEng in Electronic and Information Engineering

Xiamen University of Technology

2016/09 – 2020/06 · WAM 85.69

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

Victoria University of Wellington

2018/07 – 2018/11 · International student exchange program

Experience

Data Science Specialist

Telstra

2024/11 – 2025/07

Enterprise GraphRAG and agentic retrieval for frontline customer service; automated RAG evaluation (AutoEval) on Azure ML with Docker, CI/CD and TDD.

Academic Tutor

The University of Western Australia

2024/02 – present

Cloud Computing (AWS), Intelligent Agents, Web Development, Cybersecurity (CTF), and Database Systems.

Software Developer

China Telecom

2021/11 – 2022/02

Rebuilt CMS frontend with Vue.js; designed RESTful APIs with Spring Boot and MyBatis.

Software Developer

Gillion Technologies

2019/12 – 2020/05

Enterprise maritime transport management system; scalable frontend/backend and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Agentic / LLM

  • RAG

  • MCP

  • Skills

Engineering

  • Prompt Engineering

  • Context Engineering

  • Harness Engineering

  • Loop Engineering

Tech Stack

  • Python

  • TypeScript

  • SQL/Cypher

  • Django

  • Docker

  • Neo4j

  • PostgreSQL

  • React/Next.js

  • AWS

  • Azure

  • REST/microservices

  • CI/CD

  • Git

  • TDD