Academic Outputs

Workshop Organization

Co-organizing the 1^st Any-to-Any Multimodal Learning (A2A-MML 2026) Workshop @ CVPR 2026
Co-organizing the 1^st Cognition-oriented Multimodal Affective and Empathetic Computing (CogMAEC 2025) Workshop @ ACM Multimedia 2025
Co-organizing the 1^st MLLM for Unified Comprehension and Generation (MUCG 2025) Workshop @ ACM Multimedia 2025
Co-organizing the 1^st Multimodal Knowledge and Language Modeling (MKLM 2025) Workshop @ IJCAI 2025
Co-organizing the 1^st Large Language Models and Structure Modeling (XLLM 2025) Workshop @ ACL 2025
Co-organizing the 2^nd Deep Multimodal Generation and Retrieval (MMGR 2024) Workshop @ ACM Multimedia 2024
Co-organizing the 1^st Deep Multimodal Learning for Information Retrieval (MMIR 2023) Workshop @ ACM Multimedia 2023

Open Challenge Organization

Co-organizing the Multimodal Conversational Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (PanoSent) Grand Challenge @ ACM Multimedia 2025
Co-organizing the Avatar-based Multimodal Empathetic Conversation (AvaMERG) Grand Challenge @ ACM Multimedia 2024
Co-organizing the Speech Event Extraction (SpeechEE) Shared Task @ ACL-XLLM 2025
Co-organizing the Chinese Dialogue-Level Dependency Parsing (DiaDP) Shared Task @ ACL-XLLM 2025
Co-organizing the Visual Spatial Description (VSD) Grand Challenge @ ACM Multimedia 2024
Co-organizing the Nominal Compound Chain Extraction (NCCE) Shared Task @ NLPCC 2024
Co-organizing the Dialogue-level Coreference Resolution and Relation Extraction Shared Task @ NLPCC 2024
Co-organizing the Conversational Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis (DiaASQ) Shared Task @ NLPCC 2023

Invited Talks

2025.9: Toward Unified and Advanced Multimodal Generalist, Australian National University
2025.6: On Path to Multimodal Generalist General-Level and General-Bench, AI Time 2025, (slides)
2025.6: Toward Unified and Advanced Large Multimodal Foundation Model, MSRA
2025.6: On Path to Multimodal Generalist General-Level and General-Bench, NICE 2025, (slides)
2025.5: Toward Next-generation Large Multimodal Foundation Model, Central South University
2024.8: Towards AGI: from Unified MLLM to Multimodal Generalist, MLNLP 2024, (slides)
2024.1: From Multimodal LLM to AGI, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
2023.12: From Multimodal LLM to AGI, CIPS Youth Working Committee in A Star, Singapore
2023.9: LLM-Empowered Text-to-Vision Diffusion Models, MLNLP 2023, (slides)
2023.8: LLM-Empowered Text-to-Vision Diffusion Models, WING lab @ NUS, (slides)
2023.8: Scene Graph-driven Structured Vision-Language Learning, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (slides)
2023.4: Towards Human-level AI, Huawei Cloud, (slides)
2023.2: Towards Human-level AI, NExT++ @ NUS, (slides)
2022.10: On the Structure-aware NLP and Beyond, Jianghan University, (slides)
2022.9: Neural Models for End-to-end Complex Information Extraction, SEA AI Lab, (slides)
2022.6: On the Structure-aware NLP and Beyond, NExT++ @ NUS, (slides)
2021.10: Language Semantic Vs. Syntactic Structure Parsing, Wuhan University, (slides)
2020.8: Deep Learning in NLP, Wuhan University, (slides)
2019.11: Implicit Objective Network for Emotion Detection, NLPCC 2019, (slides)

Tutorials

2025.9: A Beginner’s Guide to AI Research–Insights from a Multimodal AI Perspective, National University of Singapore, (slides)
2025.6: Evaluations and Benchmarks in the Context of Multimodal LLM, CVPR 2025, Nashville TN, USA
2024.10: From Multimodal LLM to Human-level AI: Architecture, Modality, Function, Instruction, Hallucination, Evaluation, Reasoning and Beyond, ACM MM 2024, Melbourne, Australia
2024.6: From Multimodal LLM to Human-level AI: Modality, Instruction, Reasoning and Beyond, CVPR 2024, Seattle WA, USA
2024.5: From Multimodal LLM to Human-level AI: Modality, Instruction, Reasoning, Efficiency and Beyond, LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italia
2022.10: Python Introduction and Preliminary for Research, Wuhan University
2020.4: How to AI Research and Paper Writing for AI Beginner, Wuhan University, (slides)

Teaching Assistant

Hands-on Learning Large Language Models, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, May, 2024
C programming and Algorithm, Wuhan University, Autumn 2019
Natural Language Understanding, Wuhan University, Autumn 2020
Deep Learning, Wuhan University, Spring 2021

Mentoring

Those are the students I am currently collaborating with.