I’m Yu YAN, a first-year MPhil student at the Language and Intelligence (LAI) Lab, Thrust of Artificial Intelligence in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), where I am co-advised by Prof. Chengwei Qin and Prof. Renjing Xu. Before that, I earned my bachelor’s degree in Finance at IUEC and Statistics at WISE from Xiamen University.

News

• 2026.08: ✨ Unified-MAS has been accepted by EMNLP 2026 Conference.
• 2025.03: ✨ I completed my first paper for submission to the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).

Education

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  the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) 2025.09 - Present

  Mphil in AI Thrust
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  Xiamen University (GPA: 3.70 / 4.00 Rank: 7/40) 2021.09 - 2025.06

  Bachelor's degree in Finance at IUEC and Statistics at WISE

Publications

(^*: equal contribution)

arXiv 2027

LumiBench: Benchmarking Illumination Robustness in Robotic Manipulation Policies

Yiman Pang^*, Haoming Gu^*, Wenjie Zhang, Yu Yan, Xiangyu Chen, Mingqian Zhou, Zhengtu Liang, Boyang Cai, Tao Wang, Renjing Xu

arXiv preprint, 2027

We propose LumiBench, a physical benchmark for evaluating the illumination robustness of robotic manipulation policies across varying lighting conditions.

Homepage

EMNLP 2026

Unified-MAS: Universally Generating Domain-Specific Nodes for Empowering Automatic Multi-Agent Systems

Hehai Lin, Yu Yan, Zixuan Wang, Bo Xu, Sudong Wang, Weiquan Huang, Ruochen Zhao, Minzhi Li, Chengwei Qin

EMNLP 2026 Conference

Paper Code

Internships

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  Paradoox AI 2025.03 - Present

  Research Assistant at LAI Lab
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  QuantEcon 2024.10 - 2025.08

  Research Assistant, advised by Prof. Thomas J. Sargent (Nobel Laureate in Economics)
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  DeepWisdom 2025.03 - 2025.06

  Product Operation - Multi-Agent System Focus
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  GF Securities 2025.01 - 2025.02

  Intern in Equity Capital Markets (ECM) - IPO Focus

Honors and Awards

• First Place, ICRA 2026 What Bimanuals Can Do (WBCD) Challenge 2026
  Vienna, Austria
• National First Prize, 18th "Challenge Cup" Competition 2024
  Fujian, China
• Provincial Award, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Training Program 2024
  Fujian, China
• Provincial Third Prize, 2023 National Collegiate Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2023
  Fujian, China

Skills

• English Proficiency
  CET-6: 601; IELTS: 6.5
• Technical Skills
  Python, R, MATLAB
• Leadership
  Peer tutor at SOE/WISE, teaching probability theory and statistics; host of college events; Outstanding Volunteer at the 11th ASEAN Leadership Conference.