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Jianglin (Johnny) Lu

Email: jianglinlu at outlook dot com

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the SMILE Lab of the Department of ECE, Northeastern University (NEU), under the supervision of Prof. Yun Raymond Fu (Member of Academia Europaea, Fellow of ACM, AAAS, AAAI, IEEE, IAPR). My current research interests primarily focus on generative AI, multimodal LLMs, VLA, reinforcement learning, latent reasoning, AI agents, and world models. I have interned at Amazon Web Services, NEC Labs, Adobe Research and Tencent Music Entertainment.

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

News

Feb 24, 2026 Our paper was cited by Prof. Yoshua Bengio in the International AI Safety Report 2026 ! :fire: :fire:
Feb 20, 2026 Three papers accepted to CVPR 2026. See you in Denver !
Jan 26, 2026 Two papers accepted to ICLR 2026 !
Jan 05, 2026 Joined NEC Labs remotely as a part-time Research Scientist intern ! :sparkles: :smile:
Sep 18, 2025 One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025. See you in San Diego !
Aug 20, 2025 Two papers accepted to EMNLP 2025 !
Jun 25, 2025 One paper selected as ICCV 2025 Highlight. See you in Hawaii ! :fire: :fire:
May 27, 2025 Joined Amazon Web Services as a full-time Applied Scientist intern. See you in Seattle ! :sparkles: :smile:
Apr 21, 2025 Selected as a recipient of an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award ! :trophy: :trophy:
Jan 22, 2025 One paper accepted to ICLR 2025 !
Sep 03, 2024 Joined Adobe Research as a full-time Research Scientist intern. See you in San Jose ! :sparkles: :smile:
Feb 26, 2024 Invited to give a talk at ACLab by Prof. Sarah Ostadabbas [Slides] ! 🎤 🤝
Sep 21, 2023 One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2023. See you in New Orleans !

Selected Publications

  1. CVPR
    Restore-R1: Efficient Image Restoration Agents via Reinforcement Learning with Multimodal LLM Perceptual Feedback
    Jianglin Lu, Yuanwei Wu, Ziyi Zhao, Hongcheng Wang, Felix Jimenez, Abrar Majeedi, and Yun Fu
    In The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Findings track, 2026
  2. ICLR
    Seeing Through Words: Controlling Visual Retrieval Quality with Language Models
    Jianglin Lu, Simon Jenni, Kushal Kafle, Jing Shi, Handong Zhao, and Yun Fu
    2026
    arXiv preprint, 2026
  3. NeurIPS
    The Indra Representation Hypothesis for Multimodal Alignment
    Jianglin Lu, Hailing Wang, Kuo Yang, Yitian Zhang, Simon Jenni, and Yun Fu
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
  4. ICCV
    Outlier-Aware Post-Training Quantization for Image Super-Resolution
    Hailing Wang, Jianglin Lu, Yitian Zhang, and Yun Fu
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Highlight, 2025
  5. EMNLP
    Representation Potentials of Foundation Models for Multimodal Alignment: A Survey
    Jianglin Lu, Hailing Wang, Yi Xu, Yizhou Wang, Kuo Yang, and Yun Fu
    The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025
  6. EMNLP
    Unequal Scientific Recognition in the Age of LLMs
    Yixuan Liu, Abel Elekes, Jianglin Lu, Rodrigo Dorantes-Gilardi, and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
    The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025
    Findings track of EMNLP
  7. ICLR
    Scale-Free Graph-Language Models
    Jianglin Lu, Yixuan Liu, Yitian Zhang, and Yun Fu
    In The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
  8. NeurIPS
    Latent Graph Inference with Limited Supervision
    Jianglin Lu, Yi Xu, Huan Wang, Yue Bai, and Yun Fu
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023
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