About
Hi! 👋 I am Yihang Du (杜艺航). I am an incoming PhD student at FreedomAI Lab@CUHK-Shenzhen, advised by Prof. Benyou Wang.
Generally, I am interested in advancing the capabilities and efficiency of Multimodal Language Models (MLLMs) to enable more human-like perception and reasoning.
Collaboration: I’m actively seeking to collaborate on MLLM research. Feel free to drop me an email to discuss, or just for a casual chat.
Update
Jun' 26
Completed my undergraduate studies.
Jan' 26
A paper is accepted by Bioinformatics.
Sep' 25
I’m excited to join the FreedomAI Lab as an RA for the rest of my undergrad. Enjoy Shenzhen life!
Sep' 25
Our paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
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Apr' 25
Our paper is accepted by IJCAI 2025. See you in Guangzhou!
Publications
[Google Scholar] († denotes equal contribution)
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IJCAI 2025
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Bioinformatics
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NeurIPS 2025
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Nature Communications
Education
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Ph.D. student in Computer Science
Advisor: Prof. Benyou Wang
Zhongnan University of Economics and Law
B.Sc. in Statistics
Outstanding Graduate; Outstanding Bachelor's Thesis
Experience
Shenzhen Loop Area Institute
Research Intern
CUHK-Shenzhen
Research Assistant at FreedomAI Lab
Supervisor: Prof. Benyou Wang and Dr. Yan Hu
Emory University
Research Assistant
Supervisor: Prof. Xiaobo Sun
Misc
I am a big fan of Podcasts and I enjoy playing table tennis. I am trying to learn tennis.
I love photography. I capture the beauty of my travels with a SONY A7M4. Here are some of my photos.
