CS Ph.D. @ Johns Hopkins University, advised by Prof. Alan Yuille
Research Intern @ NVIDIA, mentored by Dr. Zhiding Yu
I work on embodied AI and robotics, connecting vision-language reasoning with spatial representations and robot action. My research spans explicit 3D reasoning and memory-conditioned world models for geometrically consistent, camera-controlled video generation.
Open to Research Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer opportunities in embodied AI and robotics in the San Francisco Bay Area. Expected graduation: May 2027.
I received my M.S.E. from JHU in 2024, advised by Prof. Zongwei Zhou, and my bachelor's degree from Wuhan University in 2022, advised by Prof. Deng-Ping Fan. Previously, I interned at Philips Research, Microsoft Research Asia, Tencent WeSure, and Kuaishou, working on generative data augmentation, causal modeling, and applied machine learning.
* equal contribution
Flash Primitive Decoding predicts complete visual primitives in parallel, improving geometric accuracy beyond its autoregressive target. It reduces 3D robot trajectory ADE by 42.6% on average, accelerates robot inference by up to 5.2×, and raises MolmoSpaces manipulation success from 62.6% to 70.2%.
Pose-aligned 3D memory grounds camera-controlled video generation in observed scene geometry, preserving consistency under strong parallax and aggressive 6-DoF motion. Fixed-size world tokens keep denoising conditioning cost independent of memory length. The model earned 67.3% of 1,500 votes in a five-way human preference study.
Explicit 3D locations and orientations connect perception, geometric computation, and compositional reasoning in VLMs. SFT-to-GRPO post-training improves generalization to unseen spatial questions, reaching 60.3% accuracy on 3DSRBench with a 7B model and outperforming Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking by 9.2%.
Research Intern · Jan 2026 – Present
System-1 VLM for Physical AI.
Research Intern · 2024
Conditional diffusion for synthetic data augmentation.
Research Intern · 2022
Causal modeling for segmentation under domain shift.
Computer Vision Intern · 2021
Production OCR and automated data labeling.
Video Transmission Algorithm Intern · 2020
Reinforcement learning for congestion control.
* equal contribution
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2023 – Present
M.S.E. in Computer Science, 2024
Advisor: Prof. Alan Yuille
B.S.E., 2022
Embodied Spatial Reasoning (NeurIPS 2026, ICCV 2025),
Learning from Situated and Embodied Interaction (COLM 2026),
Body Maps (MICCAI 2024, ISBI 2024).
CVPR2026, ECCV2026, ICLR2027/2026, NeurIPS2026/2025/2024, ICML2024, MICCAI2024/2023.