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Papers, talks, and other updates since 2023, grouped by year.

2026

  • Sep 2026Three papers accepted by NeurIPS 2026, one as a Spotlight.
  • Sep 2026One paper accepted by the NeurIPS 2026 Evaluations and Datasets Track as an Oral.
  • Aug 2026One paper accepted by EMNLP 2026.
  • Jul 2026One paper accepted by COLM 2026.
  • Jul 2026Named to AI25, the list of 25 AI innovators under 25 from Sequoia China and MIT Technology Review China.
  • Jun 2026Received a Laude Institute Slingshots grant in its third cohort.
  • Jun 2026One paper accepted by IJCV.
  • Jun 2026Two papers accepted by ECCV 2026.
  • Jun 2026Organized the 2nd Workshop on Knowledge-Intensive Multimodal Reasoning at CVPR 2026.
  • May 2026Joined Google DeepMind as a student researcher.
  • May 2026Berkeley EECS News covered our FrontierCS blog post on CALICO.
  • May 2026Two papers accepted by ICML 2026.
  • Feb 2026Began hosting interviews for Z Potentials.
  • Feb 2026Two papers accepted by CVPR 2026.
  • Jan 2026Five papers accepted by ICLR 2026.

2025

  • Dec 2025One paper accepted by IEEE TIP.
  • Dec 2025Gave an oral presentation at NeurIPS 2025 on RISEBench, our benchmark for reasoning-informed visual editing. Slides.
  • Oct 2025Video-MMLU received the Outstanding Paper Award and a travel grant at the ICCV 2025 Workshop on Knowledge-Intensive Multimodal Reasoning.
  • Sep 2025One paper accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
  • Sep 2025Two papers accepted by the NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track, one as an Oral.
  • Sep 2025Received a $5,000 Lambda Research Grant.
  • Sep 2025Gave an invited talk, “Better and Longer Video Understanding,” at Abaka AI and 2077AI. Slides.
  • Sep 2025Joined Princeton University as a CS Ph.D. student.
  • Aug 2025One paper accepted by IEEE TPAMI.
  • Aug 2025LiveCodeBench Pro presented at the Open AGI Symposium at UC Berkeley. Slides.
  • Jul 2025Interviewed by DeepTech and MIT Technology Review China. Post.
  • Jun 2025One paper accepted by ICCV 2025.
  • Jun 2025Featured in MIT Technology Review as one of the lead authors of LiveCodeBench Pro.
  • Jun 2025One paper accepted by IROS 2025 as an Oral.
  • May 2025One paper accepted by ACL 2025.
  • May 2025Master's thesis nominated for the Distinguished Thesis Award by the ECE Department of the University of Washington.
  • Apr 2025Hosted the Lambda-sponsored CVPR 2025 Video Understanding Challenge at the LOVEU workshop.
  • Mar 2025One paper accepted by IEEE TVCG.
  • Mar 2025Graduated from the University of Washington with a master's thesis on Large Multimodal Models for Video Captioning.
  • Feb 2025Three papers accepted by CVPR 2025.
  • Jan 2025Two papers accepted by ICLR 2025.

2024

  • Jul 2024Two papers accepted by ECCV 2024.
  • Jun 2024Joined Pika Labs as a research intern working on video understanding and generation models.
  • Apr 2024Hosted the CVPR 2024 Long-form Video Understanding Challenge at the LOVEU workshop.
  • Feb 2024Two papers accepted by CVPR 2024, one of them among the 2.8% of submissions selected as Highlights.
  • Feb 2024Gave an invited talk at the AAAI 2024 Imageomics workshop.

2023

  • Dec 2023One paper accepted by AAAI 2024.
  • Jul 2023Two papers accepted by ICCV 2023.
  • Feb 2023Joined Microsoft Research Asia as a research intern.