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Hello, and welcome to my website. I am Yuanxi Fu, a doctoral student in Information Science at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC [school page]. I made a career transition from chemistry to information science in 2019. After successfully defending my dissertation proposal, I am now on my way to receive a second PhD, this time in information science, which I expect to complete in 2027. You can view my CV here.

My research focuses on information and data management for science. In the past, I have worked on evidence synthesis on controversial scientific topics, which led to a current side project on rerankers (the second retrieval stage in a RAG pipeline). Beside this, I am working on two main projects: my dissertation on unreliability propagation in science and AI-assisted conceptual modeling. In the near future, I hope to work on data infrastructures that will supply high-quality, sustainable data for training AI systems for Science.