About Me
Hi there👋, I am currently a master student at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen). I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Benyou Wang at FreedomAI Lab.
My research focuses on foundation models, particularly large language models and multimodal language models. I am interested in understanding how these models acquire and organize representations, how data and learning objectives shape their generalization, and how such insights can guide the development of more capable and efficient models. Recently, I have also become interested in embodied and agentic systems, particularly in how to develop reliable systems for scientific discovery and healthcare.
📝 Publications
Why Vision Fails as a Universal Bridge: Rectifying Modality Asynchrony in Multilingual MLLMs |
Yihang Du†, Juhao Liang†, Zhengzhao Lai, Siyu Li, Yan Hu.
“We uncover a modality-asynchrony phenomenon in multilingual multimodal large language models and introduce ANCHOR, a framework that promotes earlier visual–linguistic alignment to improve cross-lingual visual reasoning.”
Can Multimodal LLMs See Materials Clearly? A Multimodal Benchmark on Materials Characterization |
Zhengzhao Lai, Youbin Zheng, Zhenyang Cai, Haonan Lyu, Jingpu Yang, Hongqing Liang, Yan Hu, Benyou Wang
“MatCha is the first benchmark for materials characterization image understanding featuring the evaluation of multimodal large language models in real-world scientific scenarios.”
🎨 Portfolio
Something novel and cool, which makes up a part of me 😊
Large Language Models for Chemistry and Molecule
Leveraged LLMs for chemical reaction prediction and molecular property estimation.
August, 2024 ~ December, 2024
[CODE]
In-Context Learning Enhanced Molecule Property Prediction via LLMs
Improved the performance of LLMs in molecule property prediction task by in-context learning.
July, 2024 ~ August, 2024
[CODE]
Joined the team to build combat robots for the National RoboMaster Competition (organized by DJI), achieving national third prize.
June, 2022 ~ January, 2024
Intelligent Robot Dog Inspection Competition
Controlled Unitree’s Go1 robot dog to autonomously walk along a traction course and detect targets along the way.
March, 2023 ~ July, 2023
💻 Experience
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2026.05 - Present, Machine Learning Research Intern, Foundation VLM Team, Xingchen-AGI Lab, TeleAI. Advisor: Kaicheng Yang.
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2026.01 - 2026.05, Research Intern, SRL Lab. Advisor: Prof. Yue Song.
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2024.08 - 2026.05, Research Assistant, FreedomAI Lab. Advisor: Prof. Benyou Wang and Dr. Yan Hu.
🎖 Honors and Awards
Scholarship:
- 2026 First-Class Merit Scholarship
- 2026 Tier-1 Academic Scholarship
- 2023-2025 Third-class Scholarship (Top 25%)
Competition:
- 2024.08 🥉 National Third Prize — 23rd National RoboMaster Competition.
- 2023.12 🥈 National Second Prize — 5th National Campus AI Algorithm Elite Competition.
- 2023.08 🥉 National Third Prize — 22nd National RoboMaster Competition.
🎓 Educations
- 2025.09 - Now, Master Student, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China.
- 2021.09 - 2025.06, Undergraduate, Northeastern University, China.