I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the SmileLab at Northeastern University, advised by Prof. Yun Raymond Fu (Member of Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; Fellow of ACM, AAAI, AAAS, IEEE, and the National Academy of Inventors).

My research advances efficient and reliable foundation models, including Fine-Tuning, Multimodal Learning, Reasoning. I am particularly interested in bridging these areas to enable scalable adaptation of LLMs/VLMs,Agents and Embodied AI.

Prior to my Ph.D., I obtained my M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northeastern University and my B.S. degree in Communication Engineering from Xidian University (XDU). I was also a visiting student at Southeast University.

Beyond academia, I have industry experience in applied AI research. I am a Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon’s Industrial Robotics Group (IRG) in this summer, working on long-horizon robot tasks with world model and reasoning. Previously, I was a Research Intern at Socure (Summer 2025), working on low-level vision. I also worked as an Applied Scientist Intern at AInnovationLabs (Dec 2022 – Dec 2024), focusing on healthcare AI, 3D human pose estimation, and pedestrian re-identification.

Open to exciting research collaborations and actively seeking internship opportunities for Fall 2026 or Spring/Summer 2027. Feel free to reach out! 🔥

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Selected Publications

Rethinking Fine-Tuning: Unlocking Hidden Capabilities in Vision-Language Models Mingyuan Zhang, Yue Bai, Yifan Wang, Yiyang Huang, and Yun Fu Preprint, 2025 Paper

Boosting Large Language Models with Mask Fine-Tuning Mingyuan Zhang*, Yue Bai*, Huan Wang, Yizhou Wang, Qihua Dong, Yitian Zhang, and Yun Fu Preprint, 2025 Paper Code

Cautious Next Token Prediction Yizhou Wang, Lingzhi Zhang, Yue Bai, Mang Tik Chiu, Zhengmian Hu, Mingyuan Zhang, Qihua Dong, Yu Yin, Sohrab Amirghodsi, and Yun Fu ACL 2025 Paper Code

Experience

Amazon IRG Applied Scientist Intern, May. 2026 - Aug. 2026 Mentor: Dr. Kai Gao Manager: Dr. Jeroen van Baar Focus Areas: Long-horizon robot task, World Model with reasoning

Socure Research Intern, Jun. 2025 - Aug. 2025 Mentor: Dr. Weiqiang Mu Manager: Dr. Feng Xiao Focus Areas: Low-Level Vision

AInnovationLabs Applied Scientist Intern, Dec. 2022 - Dec. 2024 Mentor: Prof. Yun Raymond Fu Focus Areas: 3D Human Pose Estimation, Healthcare AI, Pedestrian Re-ID

Neusoft Corporation Software Engineering Intern, Jul. 2020 - Aug. 2020

Southeast University, Nanjing, China Research Assistant, Jun. 2019 - Aug. 2019 Supervisor: Prof. Fengqi Si Focus Areas: Environmental Modeling, Multimodal Data Fusion

SMILELab, Northeastern University, Boston, MA Graduate Student, Sep. 2023 - Present Supervisor: Prof. Yun Raymond Fu Focus Areas: Foundation Models, Model Efficiency, Multimodal Learning, Pruning, AI Agents, Generative AI

Northeastern University, Boston, MA Master Student, Sep. 2021 - Dec. 2022 Supervisor: Prof. Yun Raymond Fu Concentration: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Algorithm

Xidian University, Xi'an, China Undergraduate Student, Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2021 Major: Telecommunications Engineering

Selected Honors & Awards

• Honor of Excellent Students Leader, Xidian University, 2020
• Shaanxi Provincial Bronze Medal, 5th Internet+ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition

Academic Service

Reviewer

• Conference: ACMMM 2024, AAAI 2025, UAI 2025, ACMMM 2025, NeurIPS 2025
• Journal: TKDD, TPAMI

Teaching

• TA of EECE5639 Computer Vision, Spring 2026, NEU BOS

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