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!
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News
| Feb 24, 2026 | Our paper was cited by Prof. Yoshua Bengio in the International AI Safety Report 2026 ! |
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| 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 ! |
| 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 ! |
| May 27, 2025 | Joined Amazon Web Services as a full-time Applied Scientist intern. See you in Seattle ! |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Selected as a recipient of an Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award ! |
| 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 ! |
| 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
- CVPRRestore-R1: Efficient Image Restoration Agents via Reinforcement Learning with Multimodal LLM Perceptual FeedbackIn The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Findings track, 2026
- ICLRSeeing Through Words: Controlling Visual Retrieval Quality with Language Models2026arXiv preprint, 2026
- EMNLPRepresentation Potentials of Foundation Models for Multimodal Alignment: A SurveyThe 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025Cited by Prof. Yoshua Bengio in the International AI Safety Report 2026