I am a research scientist and tech lead at ByteDance Seed, specializing in training multimodal large language models (LLMs) and LLM agents using reinforcement learning (RL). I got my PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore) in 2022, where my research centered on โAdversarial Robustness of Deep Reinforcement Learningโ.
Recent news
- ๐ Received Outstanding Team award from Bytedance Seed.
- ๐ Our Bytedance Seed tech report about Multimoal LLM Agent has been released.
- ๐ Two papers accepted by NeurIPS-2025. โRobust SuperAlignmentโ selected as spotlight.
- ๐ Serve as a judge for GenAI Augmentation Challenge 2025 invited by NTU and ASTAR.
- ๐ Google scholar citation achieved 1000.
- ๐ Two papers accepted by ICCV-2025; One ICCV paper was selected as highlight.
- ๐ Received Spot Bonus award for Breakthrough In New Area from Bytedance Seed (rate=2/366).
- ๐ One paper accepted by ICML-2025 as spotlight (acceptance rate=2.6%).
- ๐ One paper accepted by ICLR-2025.
- ๐ [Feb 2025] As the tech lead and main contributor, our speech to speech LLM trained using Reinforcement Learning has been released on Doubao ่ฑๅ .
- ๐ One paper accepted by AAAI-2025.
- ๐ One paper accepted by KDD-2025.
- ๐ฅ Our paper was nominated as the best paper in SIGIR-2024.
- ๐ Two papers accepted by SIGIR-2024.
- ๐ Received outstanding employee award from Shanda gruop (rate=4/360).
- ๐ฅ My research work on audio watermarking was recently featured on Linkedin
- ๐ One paper accepted by NeurIPS-2023.
- ๐ฅโจ [Aug 2023] I was invited by AI-TIME to give a talk.
- ๐ฅ Our work on ChatGPT driven Voice base Conversational Recommender Systems has been posted by several Chinese media platforms, such as ่ฏญ้ณไนๅฎถ, ็ซๅฑฑ่ฏญ้ณ
- ๐ฅ Our work about Audio QR Code has been highlighted by IJCAI-2023 officially ๐ฌLinked-in, Facebook, Twitter.
- ๐ One paper accepted by InterSpeech-2023.
- ๐ One paper accepted by IJCAI-2023.
- ๐ One paper accepted by SIGIR-2023.
- ๐ One paper accepted by IEEE TPAMI.
- ๐ One paper accepted by CIKM-2022.
- ๐ฅ My research papers are reported by several Chinese media platforms, such as PaperWeekly, ่ฏญ้ณไนๅฎถ๏ผๆทฑ็งๆ๏ผ็ซๅฑฑๅผๆ.
- ๐ One paper accepted by IEEE TPAMI.
- ๐ Two paper accepted by SIGKDD-2022.
- ๐ One paper accepted by IJCAI-2022.
- ๐ One paper accepted by SIGIR-2022.
- ๐ One paper accepted by AAMAS-2022.
- ๐ฅ My research on โadversarial robustness of deep reinforcement learningโ has been featured with title โExpecting the Unexpected from AIโ.
- ๐ Received Research Highlight Award from ASTAR Singapore.
Experience
- ๐ผ [Jun 2024] I returned to Bytedance Seed as a research scientist and tech lead to build up the reinforcement learning pipeline for speech to speech LLMs.
- ๐ผ [Aug 2023] I joined Shanda Group as an AI scientist inspired by Mr Chen Tianqiaoโs ambition on AI, working on internal start-up and venture capital investment consultation on AI.
- ๐ [Jan 2022]I finished my oral defense and received my PhD degree. Many thanks to my supervisor Prof Yew-Soon Ong and many other collaborators.
- ๐ผ [June 2021] I joined Bytedance AI lab (Singapore) as a research scientist
- ๐๐ [May 2021] PhD thesis submission in NTU