Man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. –Edwin Hubble

Manjie Xu is a Master’s student (Class of 2022) at the School of Computer Science & Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, and an incoming Ph.D. student at Peking University. I’m in the Cognitive Reasoning Lab (CoRe Lab) , Peking University and Perception, Interaction, Embodiment Lab (Pie Lab), BIT. I also work at RedNote. I’m currently under the supervision of Prof. Wei Liang and Prof. Yixin Zhu.

Previously, I majored in Brain Science and Artificial Intelligence at Kuang Yaming Honor School, Nanjing University. I have research experience at the National Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI and Tencent AI Lab.

Interest

My research focuses on developing intelligent agents that are not only adaptive to their environments but also synergistic in their interactions with humans. Drawing inspiration from both theoretical frameworks and empirical studies—particularly those revealing the advanced cognitive abilities of even very young children—I aim to integrate human-like learning and reasoning processes with modern machine learning techniques. My current pursuits are twofold: 1) designing algorithms and agents with human-level reasoning capabilities to benefit downstream tasks, and 2) developing systems that can proactively engage with and learn from online environments.

Specifically, in light of the significant advancements in pre-trained large language models (LLMs), I’m also interested in customing LLMs for domain-specific tasks like reasoning and generation and make llm-guided agents that can interact with the environment.

News

2025.05: Two papers accepted by Interspeech 2025.
2025.01: One paper accepted by ICASSP.
2024.05: One paper accepted by ICML 2024.
2024.01: One paper accepted by IEEE VR.
2023.09: Three papers accepted by NeurIPS 2023.
2023.04: Two papers accepted by ICML 2023.

Research Topics

Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Multimodal Reasoning, Human-Robot Interaction,

Service

He is a reviewer of ECCV, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR and ICML.

Fellowships & Awards

National Scholarship (Beijing Institute of Technology)
Xiaomi Scholarship (Special Award) (Beijing Institute of Technology)
Outstanding Academic Scholarship (Nanjing University, Beijing Institute of Technology)
People‘s Scholarship of China (Nanjing University)
Honors Graduate, KUANG YAMING HONORS SCHOOL, Nanjing University

Teachers and friends

Yixin Zhu, Wei Liang, Chi Zhang, Guangyuan Jiang, Peiyu Yu, Minglu Zhao, Yuzhe Shi, Lifeng Fan, Song-Chun Zhu, Yachong Guo, Zhihua Zhou, Zan Wang, Yixuan Li, Jiaxin Li, Chenxing Li, Xuxi Zhou, Xinyi Tu