Intro

I am a second-year PhD student in Data Science at the National University of Singapore, supervised by Prof. Ng See-Kiong.

My recent research focuses on Autonomous Agents and World Modeling.

I’m always open to collaborations and opportunities across academia, industry, and venture capital. Feel free to reach out via email or DM me on X (Twitter) or LinkedIn.

Research Highlights

World Models

• Agentic world modeling: Foundations, capabilities, laws, and beyond
• Multilingual Agent-Based World Modeling for Social Science
• Self-Evolving World Models for LLM Agent Planning

User Agents

• On the Multi-turn Instruction Following for Conversational Web Agents
• Ask-before-Plan: Proactive Language Agents for Real-World Planning

Multimodal Retrieval

• VLM2Vec-V2: Advancing Multimodal Embedding for Videos, Images, and Visual Documents
• Universal Retrieval for Multimodal Trajectory Modeling
• Mmeb-v3: Measuring the performance gaps of omni-modality embedding models

Education

Services

• Reviewers: ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML (Gold), ACL ARR, COLM, AAAI, TMLR
• Volunteer: ACL 2024
• Teaching Assistants
  • CS5228: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Fall 2026)
  • CP2107: Independent Introduction to CS Research (Summer 2026)

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