Yi Lu

About Me

I am a recent graduate from the University of Toronto’s Master of Science in Applied Computing programme. My research interests lies broadly in Multi-Modal Language Model, Reinforcement Learning, Agentic MLLMs and Generative AI.

Currently I am working as a part-time research intern at Texas A&M University under the supervision of Prof. Yu Zhang, with the topic of LLM Agents. During my master’s study, I served as a full-time co-op applied research intern at ModiFace (L’Oréal’s AI Lab) focusing on controllable video generation. Prior to that, I worked as a part-time research intern in TIGER Lab under the supervision of Prof. Wenhu Chen focused on Agentic-RL based Tool-calling LLMs. I was fortunate to work under the supervision of the wonderful Jiawang Cao and Wenbo Zhu during my research internship at Opus AI Research, where I worked on Multimodal Reasoning and MLLM Benchmarking, with two papers published in top conferences.

I am actively seeking research collaborations and research internship opportunities in MLLM Post Training, Multimodality RL and Controllable Image/Video Generation.

🎓 I’m currently looking for a PhD position starting from 2026 fall in Hong Kong or the US, and full-time research internships starting from 2026 March. Feel free to contact me regarding any related opportunities. Here is my resume.

Research Interests

• Multimodality and Generative AI
• LLM/MLLM Agentic Post Training (Reasoning, RL, Benchmarking)
• Controllable Image/Video Generation

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• The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2026

Last Updated: October 2025

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