About
I am a 1st-year CS PhD student at Johns Hopkins University, advised by Prof. Tianmin Shu. I obtained my B.A. in Honors CS and Mathematics from New York University, where I received CS Prize for the Most Promising Student. Previously, I was a research intern at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Shanghai AI Lab.
Here are some research directions I’m excited about:
Deliberate Reasoning: combine language models, agent models, and world models in a cognitively grounded way, and promote more robust and versatile reasoning across multiple modalities.
AI 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.
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 agents.
Besides academics, I enjoy roaming in movies and books. I am an avid reader of scientific fiction and history, as well as a dedicated writer read by more than 17,000,000 times on different platforms. I also enjoy playing “Go”, piano, badminton, hiking and so much more.
News
- [Oct, 2024] Our work on MMToM-QA was covered by Futurity, Synced & JHU News
- [Sep, 2024] Invited talk at University of Washinton
- [Aug, 2024] MMToM-QA (slides) won the Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2024!
- [May, 2024] Released our position paper for ICLR 2024 AGI Workshop
- [May, 2023] Released
– SOTA 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
- Outstanding Paper Award, ACL 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
