About
I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, advised by Prof. Tianmin Shu. I obtained my B.A. in Honors Computer Science and Mathematics from New York University in 2024, where I was awarded the CS Prize for the Most Promising Student. I have spent time as a research intern at MIT.
I love working on exciting and game-changing research problems. Here are my current areas of focus:
Social Intelligence: create agents that can perceive, reason about, learn from, and respond to affect, behavior, and cognition of humans or other agents, and foster strategic collaborations among them.
System-2 Reasoning: in addition to System-1 intuitive thinking, develop System-2 deliberate reasoning that integrates language models, agent models, and world models in a cognitively grounded way.
Agents: build the next generation of language agents that can interact with the world through reasoning, planning, managing memory, and learning from human and environment feedback.
Besides academics, I enjoy playing Go, piano, badminton, hiking, and so much more.
News
- [Oct, 2024] MMToM-QA is covered by Futurity, Synced, and JHU News.
- [Sep, 2024] Invited talk @ University of Washinton on “Towards Multimodal Theory of Mind”.
- [Aug, 2024] MMToM-QA won the Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2024.
- [May, 2024] Released the position paper for ICLR 2024 AGI Workshop.
- [May, 2023] Released fast-DiT, state-of-the-art diffusion models with 2x speedup.
- [Apr, 2023] Received NYU Computer Science Prize for the Most Promising Student.
Selected Publications
For a more complete list, see the publication page, or my Google Scholar page.
You can also check out the project page to view my undergrad and high school projects. A mountain of gratitude to those who have kindly mentored me and inspired me with their vision and passion!
Selected Honors & Awards
- ACL Outstanding Paper Award, 2024
- NYU Presidential Honors Scholar and Summa cum Laude (Top 5%), 2024
- NYU Computer Science Prize for the Most Promising Student (1 person/year), 2023
- NYU Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund, 2023
- COMAP International Scholarship Award (Top 0.1%), 2022
- MAA Award in Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Top 0.1%), 2022
- Distinguished Honor Roll of American Mathematics Contest (Top 1%), 2020
- Bronze Medal of Shing-Tung Yau Computer Science Award (Top 1%), 2019
- Finalist of FIRST Robotics Competition World Championship (Top 0.2%), 2019
- NFLS Outstanding Student Leader Award and Zhou Enlai Scholarship (Top 3%), 2019
- First Prize of Chinese Mathematical Olympiad (Top 0.1%), 2018
