Honghui Bao

About Me

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, advised by Prof. Philip S. Yu.

My research interests lie in Large Language Models and Personalized Agents. Previously, I worked on building Recommendation Foundation Models (e.g., OpenOneRec).

Prior to joining UIC, I completed my MComp at NExT++, National University of Singapore, under the supervision of Prof. Wenjie Wang and Prof. Tat-Seng Chua. I received my B.Eng. degree from the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, in 2023.

Updates

• [Jul. 2026] We released a survey on Agentic Recommender Systems.
• [Jun. 2026] We released OneReason Technical Report.
• [Apr. 2026] Our paper OneRec-Think, on explicit reasoning in generative recommendation, was accepted to ACL 2026.
• [Jan. 2026] We released OpenOneRec Technical Report.
• [Aug. 2025] We released OneRec-V2 Technical Report.
• [Jul. 2025] Our paper HUM, on LLM-based heterogeneous recommendation, was accepted to RecSys 2025 as an Oral Presentation.
• [Jul. 2024] Our paper LETTER, on LLM-based generative recommendation, was accepted to CIKM 2024.

Experience

Research Intern, Kuaishou OneRec
Advised by Dr. Shiyao Wang
Aug. 2025 - Jul. 2026 · Beijing, China

Research Assistant, NExT++, NUS
Mentored by Prof. Wenjie Wang, advised by Prof. Tat-Seng Chua
Aug. 2023 - Jul. 2025 · Singapore

Selected Publications

For a more up-to-date list of publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.