AutoToM: Scaling Model-based Mental Inference via Automated Agent Modeling, NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper
World-in-World: World Models in a Closed-Loop World, arXiv 2025
The Essence of Contextual Understanding in Theory of Mind: A Study on Question Answering with Story Characters, ACL 2025
The Stochastic Parrot on LLM's Shoulder: A Summative Assessment of Physical Concept Understanding, NAACL 2025 Oral paper
Few-Shot Character Understanding in Movies as an Assessment to Meta-Learning of Theory-of-Mind, ICML 2024
Dynamic Relation Transformer for Contextual Text Block Detection, ICDAR 2024 Oral paper
Research Experience
Interned at AI (Jun 2023 — Aug 2024) and Research Asia (Sep 2022 — May 2023). Head Course Assistant for EN.601.664 Artificial Intelligence @ JHU (Fall 2025). Reviewer for LAW @ NeurIPS 2025.
Education
Master's student in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (Aug 2024 — Present), advised by Prof. Tianmin Shu.
Background
Research Interests: Developing planning algorithms with theory-of-mind reasoning and physical world understanding.