I am a junior undergraduate student majoring in Artificial Intelligence at Northeastern University. Currently, I have been working as a Research Assistant working on Embodied AI, Spatial Intelligence and Robotics under the supervision of Prof. Yao (Mark) Mu at Shanghai AI Lab & ScaleLab, SJTU. Meanwhile, I closely collaborate with Zhixuan Liang from MMLab@HKU. Our collaboration focuses on robotic behavior code generation through reinforcement learning in closed-loop physical simulations.

My research interests mainly focus on：

• Grounding language in spatial understanding and robotic manipulation,

• Learning robotic poses and structures in specific task and workspace settings

I am looking for a Ph.D. position starting in 2026 Fall. Please feel free to reach out!

📖 Past Research Experiences

Tsinghua University – Pervasive HCI Lab

📅 June 2024 – January 2025
👨‍🏫 Advisor: A/Prof Nan Gao, A/Prof Chun Yu.

• Conducted research on family education support by integrating large language models (LLMs) and human-computer interaction (HCI) technologies.
• Developed novel methods to infer human behaviors and mental states from dialogue data, enhancing self-awareness and promoting well-being.
• Combined LLM-driven analysis with expert qualitative coding to process real-world data and built a recommendation system for family education strategies.

Northeastern University – Information Retrieval Group (NEUIR)

📅 Second Year Undergraduate
👨‍🏫 Advisor: A/Prof Zhenghao Liu

• Focused on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) methods to enhance LLM knowledge capabilities.
• Explored cognitive science-inspired augmentation techniques to integrate external knowledge with parametric memory.
• Investigated self-generated common sense knowledge and reasoning instructions to improve LLM reasoning ability.

📝 Publications

(*indicates equal contribution) 

Nan Gao, Yibin Liu, Xin Tang, Yanyan Liu, Chun Yu, Yun Huang, Xuhai “Orson” Xu, Jun Wei, Yuanchun Shi. The Homework Wars: Exploring Emotions, Behaviours, and Conflicts in Parent-Child Homework Interactions. Under major revision for ACM IMWUT/UbiComp 2025. (Paper)

Yibin Liu, Zhenghao Liu, Yukun Yan, Shi Yu, Shuo Wang, Liner Yang, Yu Gu, Ge Yu, Huimin Chen. Self-Guide: A LLM Reasoning Enhancement Method Based on Self-Guided Planning. CCL 2024 / Journal of Chinese Information Processing, accepted. (Paper EN / Paper CN/ Code)

💬 Talks

• 2024.08, “Retrieval-Augmented Generation Modeling” for Mingtong Weilai (Beijing).

👥 Academic Service

• Reviewer for Chinese CHI 2024.

🏆 Awards

• 2024.11 Outstanding Individual in Technological Innovation of Northeastern University.
• 2024.05 Finalist of Mathematical Contest in Modeling / Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM 2024, Top 1.69% in 10,387 teams).
• 2023.10 National Level Third Prize in 2023 RoboCup China Competition Simulation 3D League Simulation (RoboCup 2023).
• 2023.10 National Level Second Prize in 2023 FIRA SimuroSot China Competition (RoboCup 2023).
• 2023.11 Future Technology Taihu Scholarship
• 2023.09 Excellent Student Scholarship in Northeastern University