Albert Wenhui Tan

About me

Albert Wenhui Tan

PhD Candidate · Renmin University of China

I am a PhD candidate at the Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, under the supervision of Professor Ruihua Song.

My research interests mainly fall in multimodal large language models, efficient/agentic reasoning, and embodied AI.

Multimodal LLMs Reasoning Embodied AI

Background

Education

  • PhD in Artificial Intelligence

    Renmin University of China

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  • Bachelor in Computer Science

    Northeastern University (China)

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Industry

Internships

  • Xiaohongshu, RedAI-Infra (ACE Talent)

    – Present

  • Xiaomi, MiLM Plus

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  • Microsoft Research Asia, Multimodal Computing Group

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Research

Main Publications

* Equal contribution, as marked in the original publication list.

Timeline

Milestones

  1. Completed the “Big Three” machine learning conference milestone: ICLR, NeurIPS, and ICML.

  2. Received my first award: Best Paper Award at MMM 2025.

  3. Started my first internship at Microsoft Research Asia under the supervision of Bei Liu and Jianlong Fu.

  4. Started pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Professor Ruihua Song.

  5. Had my first paper accepted.

  6. Began studying machine learning under the supervision of Professor Peng Cao.

Recognition

Honors and Awards