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About

Hi, I'm Yichi — I study when multimodal and embodied models break, and how to measure it.

I am an undergraduate in Artificial Intelligence at Beijing University of Technology (Project 211 & Double First-Class), and a research intern at HKUST (Guangzhou) advised by Prof. Renjing Xu. My work sits where trustworthy multimodal AI meets embodied intelligence — probing how vision-, language-, and action-models fail under adversarial and physical stress, and building benchmarks that make those failures measurable. So far I've contributed to four published / accepted papers and two works under review, including a Best Student Paper Award at the IJCAI 2025 workshop.

INTERESTS  ·  Embodied AI  ·  Explainable AI (XAI)  ·  Model Compression  ·  AI for Security
Fig. 01 — Research map Two threads, one question. Hover a node to trace it.
Adversarial & Trustworthy Multimodal AI Embodied AI & World Models TVPI · Visual Prompt Injection Jailbreak-AudioBench Transfer Attack across MLLMs Physical Threats in VLA bridge HumanoidArena Dexterous World Model
Map Hover a node to trace a thread · click to open the paper.
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News

  1. Jan 2026 Began a research internship at HKUST (Guangzhou) with Prof. Renjing Xu. → Research
  2. 2026 Two papers under review at NeurIPS 2026 D&B and ACM MM 2026. → Publications
  3. 2026 Won a Bronze Medal (solo) at Kaggle BirdCLEF+ 2026 — 299 / 4084 teams. → Honors
  4. Sep 2025 Jailbreak-AudioBench accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Datasets & Benchmarks Track. → Paper
  5. Aug 2025 Received the Best Student Paper Award at the IJCAI 2025 workshop for TVPI. → Paper
  6. 2025 Transfer Attack for Bad and Good accepted at ACM Multimedia 2025. → Paper
  7. 2025 Led my team to 5th / 258 (Top 2%) in the IJCAI 2025 Workshop Challenge. → Honors
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Education

Beijing University of Technology

2021 — 2025

B.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence  ·  GPA 88.36 / 100

Project 211 Double First-Class
Selected coursework
Advanced Mathematics 99 Deep Learning 97 Analog Electronic Technology 92 Complex Functions 92
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Research Experience

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

Jan 2026 — Present

Research Intern  ·  Advisor: Prof. Renjing Xu

  • Contributed to four published / accepted works and two works under review (NeurIPS 2026 D&B; ACM MM 2026).
  • Focus on the adversarial robustness of multimodal LLMs and the reliability of embodied world models — from typographic prompt injection to whole-body benchmarking.
Embodied AI Explainable AI Model Compression AI for Security
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Publications

* equal contribution
IJCAI 2025 · Workshop ★ Best Student Paper

Exploring Typographic Visual Prompts Injection Threats in Cross-Modality Generation Models

Hao Cheng*, Erjia Xiao*, Yichi Wang*, Lingfeng Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Jiahang Cao, Kaidi Xu, Mengshu Sun, Xiaoshuai Hao, Jindong Gu, Renjing Xu

NeurIPS 2025 · Datasets & Benchmarks

Jailbreak-AudioBench: In-Depth Evaluation and Analysis of Jailbreak Threats for Large Audio Language Models

Hao Cheng*, Erjia Xiao*, Jing Shao*, Yichi Wang, Le Yang, Chao Shen, Philip Torr, Jindong Gu, Renjing Xu

NeurIPS ↗
ACM Multimedia 2025

Transfer Attack for Bad and Good: Explain and Boost Adversarial Transferability across Multimodal Large Language Models

Hao Cheng*, Erjia Xiao*, Jiayan Yang, Jinhao Duan, Yichi Wang, Jiahang Cao, Qiang Zhang, Le Yang, Kaidi Xu, Jindong Gu, Renjing Xu

DOI ↗
Bridges both threads
IROS'25
IROS 2025 · Workshop

Manipulation Facing Threats: Evaluating Physical Vulnerabilities in End-to-End Vision-Language-Action Models

Hao Cheng*, Erjia Xiao*, Yichi Wang*, Chengyuan Yu, Mengshu Sun, Qiang Zhang, Yijie Guo, Kaidi Xu, Jize Zhang, Chao Shen, Philip Torr, Jindong Gu, Renjing Xu

Under review
NeurIPS'26
NeurIPS 2026 · D&B Under review

HumanoidArena: Benchmarking Egocentric Hierarchical Whole-body Learning

Taowen Wang, Zikang Xie, Bin Yang, Yunheng Wang, Zizhao Yuan, Yuetong Fang, Yixiao Feng, Yichi Wang, Xingyu Chen, Haodong Chen, Qiwei Wu, Weisheng Xu, Lihan Chen, Lusong Li, Zecui Zeng, Renjing Xu

Under review
ACM MM'26
ACM Multimedia 2026 Under review

Not All Actions Are Equal: Rethinking Conditioning for Dexterous World Model

Zizhao Yuan, Taowen Wang, Zhengtu Liang, Qiwei Liang, Yichi Wang, Yunheng Wang, Yuetong Fang, Lusong Li, Zecui Zeng, Renjing Xu

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Honors & Awards

International
Best Student Paper Award — IJCAI 2025 Workshop on Deepfake Detection, Localization & Interpretability
INTERNATIONAL · CO-FIRST AUTHOR
5th / 258 Teams — IJCAI 2025 Workshop Challenge Top 2%
INTERNATIONAL · TEAM LEAD · TIANCHI / ALIBABA CLOUD
Bronze Medal — Kaggle BirdCLEF+ 2026 299 / 4084
INTERNATIONAL · SOLO · TOP 8%
National
First Prize — Advanced Robotic Vision: 3D Recognition (Finals)
NATIONAL · TEAM LEAD · CHINA ROBOT COMPETITION & ROBOCUP CHINA OPEN 2025
Third Prize — Advanced Robotic Vision: Industrial Metrology (Finals)
NATIONAL · TEAM LEAD · CHINA ROBOT COMPETITION & ROBOCUP CHINA OPEN 2025
First Prize — Datawhale AI Summer Camp
NATIONAL · TEAM LEAD · ML USER-ACQUISITION PREDICTION
Provincial
Two × Second Prize — 3D Recognition & Industrial Metrology
PROVINCIAL · TEAM LEAD · ROBOCUP CHINA 2025 SPECIAL EVENT, YANTAI
University · Beijing University of Technology
Outstanding Student Award
2022 — 2023
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Award
2024 — 2025
Academic Excellence Scholarship ×3, Top 10%
2021–22 · 2023–24 · 2024–25
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Contact

Open to PhD opportunities & research collaboration.

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