Published in top-tier venues such as ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, CVPR, AAAI, etc. Awarded the World AI Conference Rising Star in 2023. Papers selected as Most Influential Papers by Paper Digest and ESI Highly Influential Papers, and received the 2024 WAIC Outstanding Paper Award. Recipient of the 2023 WAIC Rising Star award and ranked as Top 2% Scientists Worldwide 2024 (Single Year) by Stanford University. Served as (Senior) Area Chair or Senior Program Committee of top-tier conferences. Organized WSDM 2022, EMNLP 2023, ACL 2024, ACM MM 2025. Associate Editor for journals like TALLIP and Neurocomputing. Ph.D. thesis awarded the Excellent Doctoral Thesis of Chinese Information Processing Society (CIPS). Won more than ten honors and awards during the Ph.D. stage.
Research Experience
Previously, an associate researcher at Skywork AI Singapore and SEA AI lab. Currently working with Prof. Mong-Li Lee, Prof. Wynne Hsu, Prof. Tat-Seng Chua, and Prof. Shuicheng Yan.
Education
Ph.D. from Wuhan University.
Background
A senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore, with research interests in NLP, CV, and their intersection (i.e., Multimodal/Vision-Language Learning). The long-term goal is to achieve human-level AI centered around multimodal LLMs & generalists.
Miscellany
Extensively explores AI for medicine, healthcare, clinical psychology, and social studies, integrating advanced LLM/agent methodologies. Open to collaborations on the above topics, supporting remote collaboration. Provides sufficient GPUs for promising students.