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Academic Achievements
1. Paper 'MindJourney: Test-Time Scaling with World Models for Spatial Reasoning' accepted to NeurIPS 2025
2. Paper 'Ella: Embodied Social Agents with Lifelong Memory' published at MAS Workshop @ ICML 2025
3. Released 'Virtual Community: An Open World for Humans, Robots, and Society'
4. Paper 'Do Vision-Language Models Represent Space and How? Evaluating Spatial Frame of Reference Under Ambiguities' accepted to ICLR 2025 (Oral)
5. Paper 'COMBO: Compositional World Models for Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation' accepted to ICLR 2025
6. Paper 'Explainable Procedural Mistake Detection' accepted to EMNLP 2025
7. Paper 'A Combinatorial Approach to Neural Emergent Communication' accepted to COLING 2025
Research Experience
1. Research Assistant at SLED lab, advised by Prof. Joyce Chai before joining JHU
2. Worked with Chuang Gan, Freda Shi, Parisa Kordjamshidi, Honglak Lee
Education
1. Ph.D. in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, advised by Prof. Tianmin Shu and Prof. Daniel Khashabi
2. M.S. in Robotics from the Robotics Institute, Graduate Certificate in Cognitive Science from the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of Michigan
3. Bachelor's in Computer Science from College of Information & Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst
Background
Research Interests: Embodied AI, Multimodality, Natural Language Processing; Goal is to create Scalable Cognitive Agents that perceive, act, and learn from experiences like humans in physical and virtual worlds.