About
I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, advised by Tianmin Shu.
I received my B.A. in Honors Computer Science and B.A. in Mathematics from New York University in 2024, where I was awared the Computer Science Prize for the Most Promising Student. I have also spent time as a research intern at MIT. I received an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2024 for my work on multimodal Theory of Mind.
I love working on exciting and game-changing research problems. My current areas of focus include:
Social Intelligence: Creating capable and friendly agents that can perceive, reason about, learn from, and respond to the behavior and cognition of humans or other agents; promoting strategic communication and collaboration among them.
Advanced Reasoning: Improving and integrating System-2 deliberate reasoning with System-1 intuitive thinking; combining language models, agent models, and world models in a scalable, cognitively grounded way.
Besides academics, I enjoy playing Go, piano, badminton, hiking, and so much more.
News
- [Apr, 2025] Co-organizing the Workshop on Continual Robot Learning from Humans at RSS 2025.
- [Feb, 2025] Introducing AutoToM: an automated and SOTA Theory of Mind method (Arxiv, Twitter).
- [Jan, 2025] MuMA-ToM was accepted at AAAI 2025 as an Oral Presentation!
- [Oct, 2024] MMToM-QA was 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!
Selected Publications
(* denotes equal contribution; † denotes project lead)
For a more complete list, please see my publication page or Google Scholar page.
You can also take a look at my undergrad 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
- 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 1%), 2018
- First Prize of Chinese Mathematical Olympiad (Top 0.1%), 2018