My research centers on building AI that not only performs well but also reasons in a way that is intuitive and trustworthy to humans.
I focus on two core questions:
1) How can we build models that have a human-intuitive, stepwise, and organic reasoning trajectory?
2) How can models understand and align information from different sources (e.g., images and text) in a human-like manner?
My Ph.D. research plan is built on my experience in mechanism design and reflections on human cognition. I aim to focus on two primary capabilities of large models:
1. Building a Unified Semantic Space: My first goal is to study how to effectively map diverse information into a unified, interpretable latent space. This goes beyond cross-modal mapping—it underpins logical reasoning. I believe that efficient cross-modal semantic alignment is a first step toward foundational models that can comprehensively understand the world.
2. Realizing Structured Reasoning in Latent Space: After achieving semantic alignment, my next goal is to design structured, chain-of-thought-like reasoning trajectories within this unified latent space. I want models not only to produce answers but also to present a decomposable and traceable reasoning process.
Education
East China Normal University (Project 985)
Sept 2021 – June 2024 M.S. in Computer Science and Technology GPA: 3.77/4.00 (Top 5%); Admitted via recommendation (waiver of entrance exam).
Donghua University (Project 211)
Sept 2017 – June 2021 B.S. in Computer Science and Technology GPA: 4.01/4.30; Rank: 2/180; Outstanding Graduate.
Purdue University Northwest Aug 2019 – Aug 2020 Exchange Student & Research Assistant GPA: 3.90/4.00; Awarded full CSC scholarship; 1st Place, Notre Dame Data Hackathon.
A framework using contrastive learning as a regularizer to learn a more discriminative feature space, increasing the similarity margin for positive/negative pairs by 15% and achieving SOTA performance.
A unified, single-encoder architecture with a quality-aware strategy to address the real-world issue of training a single model on heterogeneous-quality data, reaching SOTA on mixed-quality benchmarks.
Industry Experience
Worldwide Educators Conference (WWEC) June 2024 - Present Technical Manager Managed technical associations and developed an automated tool to generate 1000+ custom conference assets, saving an estimated 100+ hours of manual design work.
Shanghai KeyoneAI Technology Co., Ltd. May 2023 - Oct 2023 AI Full-Stack Developer Intern Engineered a full-stack design tool by fine-tuning Stable Diffusion with LoRA and ControlNet to enable intuitive, controllable features like text-to-image and inpainting.
Shanghai Feifan Technology Co., Ltd. May 2021 - Aug 2021 AI Algorithm Intern Developed a fashion aesthetics recommendation system leading to a 20% inventory reduction for the client by building a color block classification model and a rule-based engine.
Each line in the list is presented with the date, book title, and author. An asterisk (*) at the end indicates a key book.
Books not read on WeChat Read cannot be traced back in time. After experiencing consecutive submission failures in mid-2023, my inner confusion and helplessness erupted, and I began reading a large number of spiritual books, seeking personal life integration. In recent years, I have made breakthroughs in my personal mindset. If we only know too much knowledge, we cannot live this life well. So after overcoming internal friction, I read fewer books.
Undated Books (Mostly from university and before)
The Power, The Magic, Hero (by Rhonda Byrne)
⭐ 九阳剑圣 (Nine Yang Sword Saint)
超神机械师 (The Legendary Mechanic)
⭐ 三体 (The Three-Body Problem)
长生帝子 (Longevity Emperor's Son)
修真界败类 (Scum of the Cultivation World)
活法 (Ikigai)
黎明之剑 (Sword of Dawn)
毛泽东选集 (Selected Works of Mao Zedong)
炁体源流 (The Origin of Qi)
⭐ 深奥的简洁 (Profound Simplicity)
⭐ 什么是技术 (The Question Concerning Technology)
小逻辑 (The Shorter Logic)
⭐ 禅海蠡测 (Measuring the Ocean of Zen with a Conch)
⭐ 爵迹 (L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties)
小时代（I-IV）(Tiny Times)
神印王座 (Throne of Seal)
Reading Journey
2025
⭐ 2025/4 秘密 (The Secret) (Second time)
2024
⭐ 2024/10 被讨厌的勇气 (The Courage to Be Disliked)
2024/9 谁说我不可以 (Who Says I Can't)
⭐ 2024/8 西西弗神话 (The Myth of Sisyphus) by Albert Camus
⭐ 2024/2 当下的力量 (The Power of Now) by Eckhart Tolle
⭐ 2024/1 修行明理手册 (Manual for Practice and Understanding Truth)
2024/1 快乐终极指南 (The Ultimate Guide to Happiness)
2024/1 零极限 (Zero Limits)
2023
2023/12 佛道一如道德经修订本 (Buddhism and Taoism as One: Revised Tao Te Ching)
2023/9 不羁的灵魂 (The Untethered Soul)
2023/9 精力管理 (The Power of Full Engagement)
2023/9 圆觉经略说 (Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment Explained) by Nan Huai-Chin
2023/6 无门关 (The Gateless Gate)
2023/6 佛法与义理 (The Dharma and Principles) by Nan Huai-Chin
2023/6 禅海蠡测（语译）(Measuring the Ocean of Zen with a Conch - annotated)
2023/3 维摩诘的花雨漫天 (Vimalakirti's Flower Rain) by Nan Huai-Chin
2023/3 内向者优势 (The Introvert Advantage)
2022
⭐ 2022/11 大手印浅释 (A Brief Explanation of Mahamudra) by Master Yuanyin
2022/11 定慧初修 (Initial Practice of Samatha-Vipassana)
2022/11 瑜伽师地论·声闻地讲录 (Lectures on the Yogacarabhumi-sastra)
2022/11 人生的起点和终点 (The Start and End of Life)
2022/10 宗镜录略讲 (Brief Lectures on the Zongjing Lu)
2022/10 药师经的济世观 (The World-Saving View of the Medicine Buddha Sutra)
2022/10 答问青壮年参禅者 (Answering Young Chan Practitioners)
2022/10 禅与生命的认知初讲 (Introduction to Zen and the Cognition of Life)
2022/10 静坐修道与长生不老 (Meditation and Immortality)
2022/10 如何修正佛法 (How to Cultivate Buddhist Dharma)
2022/6 大唐兴亡三百年 (Three Hundred Years of the Rise and Fall of the Tang Dynasty)
2022/5 生命进化的跃升 (The Leap of Life's Evolution)
2022/5 中国·政道 (China's Political Way)
⭐ 2022/2 大奉打更人 (Guardians of the Dafeng)
2022/1 窃明 (Qie Ming)
2021
2021/12 津巴多口述史 (The Zimbardo Oral History)
2021/4 修真四万年 (Forty Millenniums of Cultivation)
2021/4 一句顶一万句 (One Sentence is Worth Ten Thousand)
2021/4 断舍离 (Dan-sha-ri)
⭐ 2021/3 诡秘之主 (Lord of Mysteries) by 爱潜水的乌贼
2021/3 重口味心理学 (Provocative Psychology)
2021/2 孺子帝 (The Child Emperor)
2021/2 大秦帝国(12册) (The Great Qin Empire series)
2020
2020/12 五万年中国史 (Fifty Thousand Years of Chinese History)
2020/11 书剑恩仇录 (The Book and the Sword) by Jin Yong
2020/11 牛奶可乐经济学 (Milk and Cola Economics)
2020/9 道林格雷的画像 (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
2020/9 让成长带你穿透迷茫 (Let Growth Guide You Through Confusion) by Yu Minhong
2020/9 愿你的青春不负梦想 (May Your Youth Live Up to Your Dreams) by Yu Minhong
2020/8 天行健 (Tian Xing Jian)
2020/8 鹿鼎记 (The Deer and the Cauldron)
2020/8 大明亡国史：崇祯皇帝传 (History of the Ming Dynasty's Fall: Biography of Emperor Chongzhen)
2020/7 堂吉诃德 (Don Quixote)
2020/6 百年孤独 (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
⭐ 2020/6 亵渎 (Blasphemy)
2020/6 生活是很好玩的 (Life is Fun)
2020/6 世间所有相遇都是久别重逢 (All Encounters in the World Are Reunions After a Long Separation)
2020/6 鼠疫 (The Plague) by Albert Camus
2020/6 海奥华预言 (The Thiaoouba Prophecy)
⭐ 2020/5 活着 (To Live)
2020/5 罗生门 (Rashomon)
⭐ 2020/5 局外人 (The Stranger) by Albert Camus
2020/5 别笑，这是大清正史 (Don't Laugh, This is the Official History of the Qing Dynasty)
2020/5 高情商聊天术 (The Art of High EQ Chat)
2020/5 三重门 (Triple Door)
2020/5 过得刚好 (Just Right)
2020/4 雪中悍刀行 (Sword Snow Stride)
2020/2 与神合一 (Communion with God)
2020/2 与神为友 (Friendship with God)
⭐ 2020/2 与神对话I-III (Conversations with God)
2020/1 娱乐至死 (Amusing Ourselves to Death)
⭐ 2020/1 非暴力沟通 (Nonviolent Communication)
2019
2019/12 知行合一王阳明 (Unity of Knowledge and Action: Wang Yangming)
2019/9 如何有效阅读一本书 (How to Read a Book Effectively)
2019/9 微习惯 (Mini Habits)
⭐ 2019/5 干法 (A Passion for Success) by 稻盛和夫
Gallery
Cycling at Qiandao LakeCycling at Qinghai LakeHiking
