Zhongqi (Nick) Yue

I am a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow (PPF, Principal Investigator), jointly affiliated with Nanyang Technological University and Chalmers University of Technology (with Prof. Fredrik D. Johansson). In 2023, I completed my Ph.D. in NTU under Alibaba Talent Program, supervised by Prof. Hanwang Zhang and co-supervised by Prof. Qianru Sun. During Ph.D., I did an internship in Sea working under Prof. Pan Zhou. Prior to that, I received my bachelor's degree from NTU in 2017 under MOE SM2 scholarship.

My research lies at the intersection of multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), representation learning, and causal generalization, with the broader goal of building AI systems that can learn and reason beyond language. I have published in top-tier venues including NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, and ICCV, receiving multiple oral and spotlight recognitions and a CVPR 2025 Best Student Paper Honorable Mention. My recent works explore post-training for LLMs and MLLMs to advance reasoning, grounding, and agentic capabilities in foundation models.