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Research interests
Computer Science / Information Technology - AI / ML / NLP
Computer Science / Information Technology - Multimedia knowledge reasoning
Computer Science / Information Technology - Reasoning and Agents
Computer Science / Information Technology - Computational Social Science
Computer Science / Information Technology - Multimedia knowledge reasoning
Computer Science / Information Technology - Reasoning and Agents
Computer Science / Information Technology - Computational Social Science
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Education/Academic qualification
PhD in Computer Science, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Institute
2024
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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Self-Evolving Agents for Open-World Tool Ecosystems
HUANG, S. (CoI), TIAN, Q. (CoI), GENG, X. (CoI), FUNG, Y. R. (PI) & CHEN, Z. (CoI)
1/05/26 → 30/04/27
Project: Research
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Anti-scam Detection via Language and Visual Data Analysis
CHEN, Q. (CoPI), XING, Y. (CoI), HE, Y. (CoI), FUNG, Y. R. (PI) & HE, Z. (Team member)
18/12/25 → 18/12/27
Project: Research
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Robust Multi-Speaker Separation and Noise Reduction System Based on Self-Supervised Learning and Acoustic Scene Modeling
FUNG, Y. R. (PI)
BYD Auto Industry Company Limited
17/11/25 → 16/11/26
Project: Research
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Continual Learning Methods and Application Technologies for Multilingual Large Language Models in Cross-Domain Scenarios
GUO, D. (Team member), LI, H. (Team member), ZHOU, M. (CoPI), MIN, R. (Team member), YANG, X. (Team member), SONG, Y. (CoI), FUNG, Y. R. (CoPI) & QIN, Z. (Team member)
Ministry of Sciences and Technology of the People’s Republic of China
1/11/25 → 31/10/27
Project: Research
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Research output
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AdaCtrl: Towards Adaptive and Controllable Reasoning via Difficulty-Aware Budgeting
HUANG, S., Wang, H., Zhong, W., SU, Z., Feng, J., Cao, B. & FUNG, M., 13 Apr 2026, In: Transactions on Machine Learning Research. 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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Are Your Agents Upward Deceivers?
GUO, D., LIU, Q., LIU, D., Ren, Q., SHAO, S., Qiu, T., LI, H., FUNG, M., BA, Z., DAI, J., JI, J., CHEN, Z., TAO, J., YANG, Y., SHAO, J. & Hu, X., Jul 2026, Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. ML Research Press, 41 p. (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research; vol. 306).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
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ClinTutor-R1: Advancing Scalable and Robust One-to-Many Alignment in Clinical Socratic Education
HE, Z., YANG, H., QIN, Z. & FUNG, M., 6 Jul 2026.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference Paper › peer-review
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Dancing in Chains: Strategic Persuasion in Academic Rebuttal via Theory of Mind
HE, Z., LYU, Z. & FUNG, M., 23 Apr 2026, 14th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2026. International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR, 36 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
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Mathematical Proof as a Litmus Test: Revealing Failure Modes of Advanced Large Reasoning Models
GUO, D., LIU, J., FAN, Z., HE, Z., LI, H., LI, Y., WANG, Y. & FUNG, M., Jul 2026, Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vol. 1: Long Papers. p. 12764-12804 41 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference Proceeding/Report › Conference Paper published in a book › peer-review
Open Access
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ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2026 (MMSys) Hong Kong
Hui, P. (Participant), FUNG, M. (Participant), BRAUD, T. C. (Participant) & PANG, C. C. (Participant)
4 Apr 2026 → 8 Apr 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference / Workshop
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Enhancing MLLM Agent Reasoning and Creativity
FUNG, M. (Invited speaker)
Dec 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited
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Multimodal Deep Research Agents
FUNG, M. (Invited speaker)
2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited
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Towards Deeper Multi-Modal LLM Agent Reasoning
FUNG, M. (Invited speaker)
2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited