I am now a PhD student at the Nanyang Technological University, CCDS, supervised by Prof. Mengmi Zhang.

I am working as a research intern at Peking University, advised by Prof. Li Yuan since April 2023. Before joining PKU, I have been an AI4Edu Algorithm Researcher and lead the developer team of OpenXLab-Edu at Shanghai AI Lab in 2021-2023.

🤔 My research interests include Neuron-Inspired Multi-Modal AI methods and their downstream applications on cross fields. I keep collobration with my friends Dr. Hao Li on Multi-Modal Tasks, Dr. Shuai Zhao on LLMs-related Tasks and Dr. Xinyi Wu on AI4Education. Specially, I aim to develop models with human reasoning capabilities and liberate human productivity.

🤝 Looking for collobration. If you are interested in working with me in AI tasks or AI4Sci tasks, please drop me an email.

🔥 News

• 05/2025:  🎉🎉 Two papers are accepted by ACL2025(1 main & 1 findings)!
• 04/2025:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing!
• 01/2025:  🎉🎉 Two papers are accepted by IEEE Trans on Nuclear Science and Journal of Instrumentation!
• 09/2024:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by NIPS2024!
• 07/2024:  🎉🎉 One paper is accepted by ECCV2024!
• Reviewer Service: ACM MM24&25, ECCV24, KDD25, ICCV25, NIPS25

📝 Preprint

• Seeing sound, hearing sight: Uncovering modality bias and conflict of ai models in sound localization, Yanhao Jia, Ji Xie, S Jivaganesh, Hao Li, Xu Wu, Mengmi Zhang.

• Towards Robust Evaluation of STEM Education: Leveraging MLLMs in Project-Based Learning, Yanhao Jia, Xinyi Wu, Qinglin Zhang, Yiran Qin, Luwei Xiao, Shuai Zhao.

• Investigating Vulnerabilities and Defenses Against Audio-Visual Attacks: A Comprehensive Survey Emphasizing Multimodal Models, Jinming Wen, Xinyi Wu, Shuai Zhao, Yanhao Jia, Yuwen Li.

📝 Publications

• ACL 2025 Uni-Retrieval: A Multi-Style Retrieval Framework for STEM’s Education, Yanhao Jia^*, Xinyi Wu^*, Hao Li, Qinglin Zhang, Yuxiao Hu, Shuai Zhao, Wenqi Fan.

• ECCV 2024 FreestyleRet: Retrieving Images from Style-Diversified Queries, Hao Li^*, Yanhao Jia^*, Peng Jin, Zesen Cheng, Kehan Li, Jialu Sui, Chang Liu, Li Yuan.

• Nuclear Science and Techniques OML: An online multi-particle locating method for high-resolution single event effects studies, Yanhao Jia, Jianwei Liao, Haibo Yang, Qihao Duan, Longjie Wang, Jiangyong Du, Honglin Zhang, Chengxin Zhao.

• IEEE Trans on Nuclear Science Hi’Beam-SEE: A Real-time High-resolution Single Event Effects Locating Device for Heavy Ion Facilities, Jianwei Liao, Yanhao Jia, Shun Liao, Jiangyong Du, Haibo Yang, Ju Huang, Honglin Zhang, Xianglun Wei, Peixiong Zhao, Xianqin Li, Xiaoyang Niu, Weijia Han, Rui He, Chaojie Zou, Wenchao Sun, Xiangwei Peng, Chengxin Zhao.

• NIPS 2024 Spiking Transformer with Experts Mixture, Zhaokun Zhou, Yijie Lu, Yanhao Jia, Kaiwei Che, Jun Niu, Liwei Huang, Xinyu Shi, Yuesheng Zhu, Guoqi Li, Zhaofei Yu, Li Yuan.

• Nuclear Science and Techniques A real-time calibration method based on time-to-digital converter for accelerator timing system, Qihao Duan, Liang Ge, Yanhao Jia, Jieyu Zhu, Wei Zhang.

• Journal of Instrumentation FOML, A deep learning based fast online multi-track locating algorithm for MPGD with silicon pixel sensors, Jiangyong Du, Xiangyu Deng, Yanhao Jia, Jianwei Liao, Chengxin Zhao.

• ACL 2025 (Findings) Unlearning Backdoor Attacks for LLMs with Weak-to-Strong Knowledge Distillation, Shuai Zhao, Xiaobao Wu, Cong-Duy T Nguyen, Yanhao Jia, Meihuizi Jia, Feng Yichao, Anh Tuan Luu.

• IEEE Trans on Affective Computing Exploring Cognitive and Aesthetic Causality for Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis, Luwei Xiao, Rui Mao, Shuai Zhao, Qika Lin, Yanhao Jia, Liang He, Erik Cambria.

👨‍💻 Open-Source Projects

• OpenXLab-Edu

📖 Educations

• 2024.07 - (now), Ph.D. in Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University
• 2021.09 - 2024.06, M.S. in Computer Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2017.09 - 2021.06, B.S. in Computer Science, Shandong University

💻 Internships

• 2023.05 - (now), Research Intern, Peking University
• 2024.07 - 2025.03, Research Intern, Centre for Frontier AI Research, A*STAR
• 2021.11 - 2023.03, AI Research Engineer, Shanghai AI Lab
• 2021.08 - 2021.09, AI Teaching Assistant, State Gird Fujian Electric Power Company