Awarded the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) (2024–2028)
Dean’s List for the School of Engineering for 8 semesters
University’s Scholarship Scheme for Continuing Undergraduate Students (2021–2023)
Conference reviewer for ACL Rolling Review
Paper 'MIND: Multimodal Shopping Intention Distillation from Large Vision-language Models for E-commerce Purchase Understanding' accepted to EMNLP 2024 main conference
Paper 'Towards Multi-Agent Reasoning Systems for Collaborative Expertise Delegation: An Exploratory Design Study' posted on arXiv in 2025
Co-authored paper 'CAT: A Contextualized Conceptualization and Instantiation Framework for Commonsense Reasoning' published at ACL 2023
Background
First-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST
Research interests include: multimodal reasoning and its applications in e-commerce (e.g., MIND project)
Multi-agent interaction and collaborative reasoning, especially collective intelligence in agent systems
Social intelligence of VLMs/LLMs—how agents interact with humans and society
Reasoning capabilities of VLMs/LLMs, particularly from a meta-cognition perspective (System 2 thinking and beyond)