Topic: From Individual Intelligence to System Intelligence: A Panoramic Overview of Graph Engineering in the Multi-Agent Era
Speaker: Prof. Qinggang Zhang (School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University)
Abstract
When Multi-Agent Systems are applied to long-horizon tasks such as scientific exploration and software development, simply increasing the number of agents does not directly improve overall capability. What truly drives system performance is whether tasks are decomposed soundly, whether agents collaborate efficiently, and whether the execution process is trackable, diagnosable and recoverable. From the perspective of the transition from individual intelligence to system intelligence, this talk introduces Graph Engineering, a new-generation engineering paradigm. Through task organization graphs, agent collaboration graphs and state evolution graphs, it formalizes task structures, collaboration relationships and runtime states, laying a unified structural foundation for the autonomous organization, efficient collaboration and continuous evolution of multi-agent systems.
Speaker Bio
Prof. Qinggang Zhang is a Professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University. He received his bachelor's degree from the School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, and his PhD from the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He joined the School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University in May 2026. His research focuses on large language models, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, model self-evolution, and trustworthy and safe AI. As a core member, he has participated in one major project under the Ministry of Science and Technology's STI 2030 — "New Generation Artificial Intelligence" Major Project. Over the past three years, he has published more than 20 CCF Category A papers as first or corresponding author, spanning premier conferences and journals in machine learning and information retrieval, including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, KDD, ACL, WWW, TKDE and TOIS. His honors include the ACL 2025 Outstanding Paper Award (highlight) and the Outstanding PhD Thesis Award from the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Time: Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 15:30–17:10
Venue: Undergraduate Classroom, 4th Floor, Zhengxin Building, Qianwei Campus, Jilin University
