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] 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 (TMLR 2024) 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.

MMToM-QA: Multimodal Theory of Mind Question Answering
Chuanyang Jin, Yutong Wu, Jing Cao, Jiannan Xiang, Yen-Ling Kuo, Zhiting Hu, Tomer Ullman, Antonio Torralba, Joshua Tenenbaum, Tianmin Shu
ACL 2024 (Outstanding Paper Award)
paper / project / code / slides / news

How Far Are We From AGI?
Tao Feng*, Chuanyang Jin*, Jingyu Liu*, Kunlun Zhu*, Haoqin Tu, Zirui Cheng, Guanyu Lin, Jiaxuan You
TMLR 2024
Position Paper for ICLR 2024 AGI Workshop
paper / project

Neural Amortized Inference for Nested Multi-agent Reasoning
Kunal Jha, Tuan Anh Le, Chuanyang Jin, Yen-Ling Kuo, Joshua Tenenbaum, Tianmin Shu
AAAI 2024
Presented at AAAI Summer Symposium (Oral)
paper / project / code / slides

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