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Education, research experience, selected projects, and academic service. Download the PDF using the icon above.

Research Interests

  • Mechanistic interpretability of factual reasoning and knowledge editing
  • Reinforcement learning for latent reasoning
  • Multimodal understanding for coding tasks and learning agents

Education

  • 2024 - Present
    M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
    HKUST (Guangzhou), Information Hub
    • GPA 4.1/4.3
    • Full Postgraduate Student Scholarship
  • 2020 - 2024
    B.Sc. in Statistics, Honors Degree (Top 5%)
    Chongqing University, HongShen Honor School
  • 2022
    Summer School
    University of California, Irvine

Research Experience

  • 2026 - Present
    Ph.D. Student
    HKUST (Guangzhou), LAI Lab and LARK Lab
    • Advised by Chengwei Qin and Zhijiang Guo
    • LLM reasoning, mechanistic interpretability, and agents
  • 2026 - Present
    Research Intern
    Tencent Hunyuan
    • Supervised by Han Hu
    • LLM reasoning and world models
  • 2024 - Present
    M.Phil. Student
    HKUST (Guangzhou), DI2 Lab and LARK Lab
    • Advised by Yutao Yue and Zhijiang Guo
  • 2024
    Research Intern
    KAUST
    • Supervised by Di Wang
    • Explainable AI and machine learning

Selected Projects

  • EMNLP 2026
    SWITCH - Switchable Latent Reasoning with On-Policy Reinforcement Learning
    • Learned boundary tokens make on-policy RL well-defined over hidden-state recurrence.
    • Reached 79.3% on MATH-500 and 89.2% on GSM8K with Qwen3-8B.
  • ICLR 2026
    ACE - Attribution-Controlled Knowledge Editing for Multi-hop Factual Recall
    • Identified query-value neuron pathways in multi-hop factual recall and used them for knowledge editing.
  • TMLR
    CAT and ConceptGuard
    • Developed concept-level backdoor attacks and the first defense tailored to them.

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    • Honors Degree, Chongqing University (Top 5%)
  • 2022
    • Outstanding Student Scholarship, Chongqing University
    • MIT Outstanding Machine Learning Project (Top 5%)

Academic Service

  • Reviewer for ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and ICRA.