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About Me

I am currently a first-year MPhil student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Zhijiang Guo. I received my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Central South University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Jinpeng Wang and Dr. Kevin Lin.

My research interests include multimodal large language models, reinforcement learning and recursive self-improvement. My recent work focuses on visual code generation.

News

Aug. 2026

One paper was accepted by EMNLP 2026 Findings.

Aug. 2026

Honored to join LARK Lab, advised by Prof. Zhijiang Guo.

May 2026

Congratulations! VCode was selected as an oral presentation at the CVPR 2026 Visual Concepts Workshop.

Apr. 2026

Honored to be named an Outstanding Graduate of Central South University.

Feb. 2026

Grateful to receive the CSU-JPG Lab Annual Award.

Nov. 2025

We released VCode, a multimodal coding benchmark with SVG as symbolic visual representation.

Feb. 2025

Luckily joined CSU-JPG Lab as an undergraduate research assistant.

Publications

CVPRW

VCode: a Multimodal Coding Benchmark with SVG as Symbolic Visual Representation

Kevin Lin*, Yuhao Zheng*, Hangyu Ran*, Dantong Zhu, Dongxing Mao, Linjie Li, Philip Torr, Alex Jinpeng Wang (*Equal contribution)

CVPR 2026 Visual Concepts Workshop Oral

[Project] [Paper] [Code] [Demo] [Twitter]

Experiences

Aug. 2026 - Present

LARK Lab

MPhil Student

Fortunate to be advised by Prof. Zhijiang Guo. Research interests include multimodal large language models, reinforcement learning, and recursive self-improvement.

Dec. 2025 - Present

Inclusion AI, Ant Group

Research Intern

Focus on multimodal generation and reasoning, and participate in visual code generation research.

Feb. 2025 - Jul. 2026

CSU-JPG Lab, Central South University

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Advised by Prof. Jinpeng Wang and Dr. Kevin Lin.

Honors & Awards

Outstanding Graduate, Central South UniversityJun. 2026
CSU-JPG Lab Annual AwardFeb. 2026
Ganglian Logistics Education Fund ScholarshipDec. 2025
First-Class Scholarship, Central South UniversityDec. 2025
Yangguang Outstanding Student ScholarshipDec. 2024
First-Class Scholarship, Central South UniversityDec. 2024
First Prize, China Robot Competition and RoboCup China OpenMay 2024

Many thanks to Yaoyao for sharing this great template yaoyao-liu/minimal-light.