Academic Outputs
Workshop Organization
Open Challenge Organization
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.
  - Ph.D Students
    
      - Jundong Xu, NUS
 
      - Meng Luo, NUS
 
      - Pengxin Xu, HITSZ
 
      - Kai Liu, Zhejiang University, Visiting @ NUS
 
      - Tianjie Ju, SJTU, Visiting @ NUS
 
      - Li Zheng, Wuhan University, Remote
 
      - Yuhan Cui, CUHK, Remote
 
      - Hao Li, WHU, Visiting @ NUS
 
      - Zongru Wu, SJTU, Visiting @ NUS
 
      - You Qin, NUS
 
      - Daoan Zhang, University of Rochester, Remote
 
      - Zhengyang Liang, SMU
 
      - Jiachen Tu, UIUC, Remote
 
      - Yiwen Jiang, Monash University, Remote
 
      - …
 
    
   
  - Master Students (incl. RA)
    
      - Yanlin Li, NUS
 
      - Yanguang Zhao, NUS
 
      - Lanhu Wu, NUS
 
      - Minghui Guo, NUS
 
      - Wenhao Xu, NUS
 
      - Pengcheng Zhou, NUS
 
      - Kaiming Jin, NUS
 
      - Shize Zhang, NUS
 
      - Kaiwen Zhang, NUS
 
      - Mingyang Bao, NUS
 
      - …
 
    
   
  - Former Students
    
      - Shengqiong Wu, NUS
 
      - Bobo Li, Wuhan University
 
      - Yu Zhao, Tianjin University
 
      - Yaoting Yang, NUS
 
      - Han Zhang, Xidian University, Remote
 
      - Ji Qi, Tsinghua University
 
      - Yichong Huang, HIT
 
      - Jiang Liu, Wuhan University
 
      - Haidong Xu, HITSZ
 
      - Bin Wang, HITSZ
 
      - Minghui Xu, Wuhan University
 
      - Ling Zhuang, Central China Normal University
 
      - Jingye Li, Wuhan University
 
      - Peng Tao, Wuhan University
 
      - Jun Gao, Wuhan University