Bowen Jin

Bowen Jin is a PhD researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign working on LLM reasoning, retrieval-augmented generation, and reinforcement learning for language models. He leads the Search-R1 project, an open-source RL framework for training search-augmented reasoning LLMs, in collaboration with researchers from UMass Amherst and Google Cloud AI Research. His work extends DeepSeek-R1-style RL training to tool-use and retrieval scenarios.