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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Recipient of the ACM SIGIR 2025 Test of Time Award; Published two papers at NeurIPS 2025: 'On the Value of Cross-Modal Misalignment in Multimodal Representation Learning' and 'Solving the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem via Trace-Guided Cost Augmentation'; Winner of the Open Catalyst Challenge at NeurIPS AI for Science 2023, where his team used AI to discover new energy materials; Author of books 'Be Cause: You Are the Cause!' and 'Seven Wisdoms for Success'.
Research Experience
Director, Causal AI Group; Interim Director, Responsible AI Research Centre (RAIR); Director of Advanced Reasoning and Learning, Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML); Professor, University of Adelaide.
Background
Research interests include causality, AI, mind, and metaphysics. Profile: Professor Javen Qinfeng Shi is a scientist and mystic bridging cutting-edge AI with the inner mysteries of consciousness.
Miscellany
Personal interests include writing and speaking. Author of 'Be Cause: You Are the Cause!' and 'Seven Wisdoms for Success'.