I'm currently a senior undergraduate student at ShanghaiTech University and I was an exchange student at UIUC(2024 - 2025 academic year), majoring in Computer Science.
I am now researching multimodal learning advised by Prof. Paul Pu Liang at MIT. During my exchange at UIUC, I was fortunate to join the UIUC U Lab, advised by Prof. Jiaxuan You and mentor Mr. Haofei Yu. Previously, I worked at the University of Cambridge advised by Prof. Angelica Aviles-Rivero in the summer of 2024. My research journey began in my sophomore year at ShanghaiTech University, where I was advised by Prof. Ze Xiong on bioelectronics.
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University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignExchange StudentAug. 2024 - May. 2025 -
ShanghaiTech UniversityB.E. in Computer ScienceSep. 2023 - Jul. 2026(expected)
Experience
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Multisensory Intelligence Group, MITResearch Topic: Multimodal LearningJul. 2025 - present -
U Lab, UIUCResearch Topic: Language Agents, Socially Intelligent AIOct. 2024 - Sep. 2025
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Math+ML+X Lab, University of CambridgeResearch Topic: Computer Vision, Medical Image AnalysisJul. 2024 - Nov. 2024 -
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryProject InternJun. 2024 - Aug. 2024 -
WiSe Lab, ShanghaiTech UnviersityResearch Topic: Integrated Electrionc BiosensorsSep. 2023 - Sep. 2024
Selected Publications
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(* equal contribution, # corresponding author)
SOTOPIA-RL: Reward Design for Social Intelligence
Yining Zhao*, Haofei Yu*, Zhengyang Qi*, Kolby Nottingham, Keyang Xuan, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Hao Zhu#, Paul Pu Liang#, Jiaxuan You#
Under Review at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026
MTI-LLM @ NeurIPS 2025
Social Learning
SOTOPIA-RL: Reward Design for Social Intelligence
Yining Zhao*, Haofei Yu*, Zhengyang Qi*, Kolby Nottingham, Keyang Xuan, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Hao Zhu#, Paul Pu Liang#, Jiaxuan You#
Under Review at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026
MTI-LLM @ NeurIPS 2025
Social Learning
CTM-AI: A Blueprint for Implementing a General AI System Inspired by Consciousness
Haofei Yu*, Yining Zhao*, Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum, Paul Pu Liang#
Under Review at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026
Multimodal ML AGI framework
CTM-AI: A Blueprint for Implementing a General AI System Inspired by Consciousness
Haofei Yu*, Yining Zhao*, Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum, Paul Pu Liang#
Under Review at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026
Multimodal ML AGI framework
Building Social World Model with Large Language Models
Haofei Yu, Yining Zhao, Guanyu Lin , Jiaxuan You#
Under Review at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026
Social Learning
Building Social World Model with Large Language Models
Haofei Yu, Yining Zhao, Guanyu Lin , Jiaxuan You#
Under Review at International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026
Social Learning
A User-customized and Untethered Electro-haptic Device for Immersive Human-Machine Interaction
Yining Zhao*, Ziang Cui*, Shanyong Wang*, Yiran Wang, Xingming Wen, Siyuan Chen, Ze Xiong#
Under review.
Human Computer Interaction Bioelectronics
A User-customized and Untethered Electro-haptic Device for Immersive Human-Machine Interaction
Yining Zhao*, Ziang Cui*, Shanyong Wang*, Yiran Wang, Xingming Wen, Siyuan Chen, Ze Xiong#
Under review.
Human Computer Interaction Bioelectronics
A printable liquid metal-montmorillonite ink for high-resolution stretchable bioelectronics
Ziang Cui, Yiqing Zhang, Siyuan Chen, Xingming Wen, Yining Zhao, Yitao Ma, Qihang Yan, Zixiong Wu, Yuxi He, Guohui Wang, Ziyuan Tang, Chenxi Xiao, You Yu, Jianrui Li, Ze Xiong
Journal of Materials Chemistry C (JMCC) 2025, 13, 18638-18648 Cover Work
Bioelectronics
A printable liquid metal-montmorillonite ink for high-resolution stretchable bioelectronics
Ziang Cui, Yiqing Zhang, Siyuan Chen, Xingming Wen, Yining Zhao, Yitao Ma, Qihang Yan, Zixiong Wu, Yuxi He, Guohui Wang, Ziyuan Tang, Chenxi Xiao, You Yu, Jianrui Li, Ze Xiong
Journal of Materials Chemistry C (JMCC) 2025, 13, 18638-18648 Cover Work
Bioelectronics
MOF-based magnetically manipulated microwheel-robots for triglyceride degradation
Zixian Liang, Jiahao Zhang, Qinyi Cao, Wanyuan Li, Yuting Dai, Yining Zhao, Leyan Ou, Dapeng Lei, Kunfeng Liu, Zonghua Luo, Ze Xiong, Guihua Jiang, Yin Ning, Jizhuang Wang, Jinyao Tang, Dan Li
Matter Matter, 2025, 102198 journal IF=17.3
Bioelectronics
MOF-based magnetically manipulated microwheel-robots for triglyceride degradation
Zixian Liang, Jiahao Zhang, Qinyi Cao, Wanyuan Li, Yuting Dai, Yining Zhao, Leyan Ou, Dapeng Lei, Kunfeng Liu, Zonghua Luo, Ze Xiong, Guihua Jiang, Yin Ning, Jizhuang Wang, Jinyao Tang, Dan Li
Matter Matter, 2025, 102198 journal IF=17.3
Bioelectronics