Lianhui Qin

📧 lianhui@ucsd.edu

📍Office: CSE 2116

UC San Diego
Computer Science & Engineering

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Teaching

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at UC San Diego. My research interests broadly span natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. My group’s research is generously supported by grants from Google, Amazon, Apple, the AI for Science program, and other sponsors. I received my PhD from University of Washington (UW, NLP) working with Yejin Choi.

Research

Building AI agents that can interact, reason, and generalize in complex environments.

• Controllable, constrained, and creative reasoning (e.g., Diffusion-RL; Latent Reasoning; COLD-Decoding)
• Self-evolving, any-time learning — agents that continue to learn during deployment, not only during training (e.g., Agentic Context Management, Self-Evolving Agent for ARC)
• Open-ended world and agent modeling (e.g., SimWorld Studio, Swappable Agent Framework, SimWorld)
• AI reasoning for science and real-world systems (e.g., Coding-Agent for Scientific Simulators, Chemistry Reasoning)

News

• [Upcoming] More talks at NeurIPS 2026 workshops. Stay tuned!
• [2026-09] Talk at the Agent in World workshop at ECCV 2026 on “Scaling Embodied AI through Automatic Environment Generation with Evolving Coding Agents.”
• [2026-08] Talk at the Apple Workshop on Language Interaction, hosted by Apple, on “Evolving Coding Agents for Automatic Environment Generation and Scalable Embodied AI.”
• [2026-07] Two talks at ACL workshops: ALVR: Automatic Environment Generation for Scaling Embodied Learning; and KnowFM : Agents Reason, Learn, and Act in Complex Embodied and Scientific Environments .
• [2026-05] We’re thrilled to release SimWorld Studio, an open-source platform for automatic 3D environment generation with coding agents..
• [2026-01] We're honored to receive the ARC Prize 2025 Paper Track Runner-Up Award for ArcMemo.
• [2025-11] Our lab is grateful to receive research support from Apple, Amazon, and Google.
• [2025-10] We’re partnering with Microsoft Research on Multi-agent collaberation and LLM memory.
• [2025-09] We’re excited to have 5 papers accepted to the NeurIPS 2025 including 1 spotlight.
• [2024-09] My CSE291: Large Model Reasoning lectures start on September 27th!
• [2024-07] I'm super excited to join UCSD CSE!
• [2024-06] I finished visiting AI2 mosaic as an Young Investigator.

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