About me 👋

I’m a CS Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a member of the IDEA Lab@UIUC led by Professor Hanghang Tong. My research interests lie in machine learning and optimal transport, with applications in cross-modal learning, graph learning, LLMs, and multi-agent systems.

Contact: qiyu6[AT]illinois[DOT]edu

News 🎉

[01/2026] ICLR'26: One paper has been accepted by ICLR'26
[12/2025] EACL'26: One paper has been accepted by EACL'26
[02/2025] Starting PhD@UIUC: I will join IDEA Lab@UIUC as a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Professor Hanghang Tong starting Fall 2025!
[01/2025] WWW'25: One paper has been accepted by WWW'25
[11/2024] RA@IDEA: I will join IDEA Lab@UIUC in Spring 2025 as a research assistant under the supervision of Professor Hanghang Tong
[07/2024] RA@NCSA: I will join NCSA@UIUC in Fall 2024 as a research assistant under the supervision of Professor Aiman Soliman and Professor Zeynep Madak-Erdogan
[05/2024] Graduation@UIUC: I receive my CS Master's degree from UIUC