Jiageng Liu

Jiageng Liu (刘家耕)

I am a second-year M.S. student in the College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, working closely with Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang.

Previously, I received my Bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Turing Class, Chu Kochen Honors College & College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, advised by Prof. Zhou Zhao.

My research interests lie in Embodied AI and Computer Vision.

I am actively seeking PhD positions in Embodied AI and Computer Vision. My goal is to build and leverage world models. Feel free to have a chat with me if you are interested!

Email: [email protected]
CV / Google Scholar / Github / Linkedin

The photo was taken in ZJU for my graduation.

News

[2025.12] Started a research internship at Honda Research Institute USA.
[2025.09] Our work on MindJourney was accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
[2024.10] ARCHITECT was accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
[2024.09] Started my M.S. in CICS at UMass Amherst.
[2024.03] RILA was accepted to CVPR 2024.
[2023.12] Received the National Scholarship in China.

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[2023.09] One paper was accepted to NeurIPS 2023.
[2023.06] Joined MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab as an intern.
[2022.06] I had the honor of starring in the promotional video of Zhejiang University.

Research

My research revolves around embodied AI and generative simulation, exploring how agents interact with complex 3D environments. I'm also excited about bridging large language models with multi-modal tasks in computer vision.

	Edit3r: Instant 3D Scene Editing from Sparse Unposed Images Jiageng Liu, Weijie Lyu, Xueting Li, Ming-Hsuan Yang Preprint coming soon.
	Virtual Community: An Open World for Humans, Robots, and Society Qinhong Zhou, Jiageng Liu, and collaborators* [pdf] [web]
	MindJourney: Test-Time Scaling with World Models for Spatial Reasoning NeurIPS 2025 (Poster) Yuncong Yang, Jiageng Liu, Zheyuan Zhang, et al. [pdf] [web] [bibtex]
	ARCHITECT: Generating Vivid and Interactive 3D Scenes with Hierarchical 2D Inpainting NeurIPS 2024 (Poster) Yian Wang, Xiaowen Qiu, Jiageng Liu, et al.* [pdf] [web] [bibtex]
	RILA: Reflective and Imaginative Language Agent for Zero-Shot Semantic Audio-Visual Navigation CVPR 2024 (Poster) Zeyuan Yang, Jiageng Liu, Peihao Chen, et al. [pdf] [web] [bibtex]
	Connecting Multi-modal Contrastive Representations NeurIPS 2023 (Poster) Zehan Wang, Yang Zhao, Xize Cheng, Haifeng Huang, Jiageng Liu, Li Tang, Linjun Li, et al. [pdf] [web] [bibtex]
	WordDiffuser: Helping Beginners Cognize and Memorize Glyph-semantic Pairs Using Diffusion ISCID 2023 Yuhang Xu, Wanxu Xia, Yipeng Chen, Jiageng Liu, et al. [pdf] [bibtex]

Experience & Education

2025.12 - Present	Research Intern, Honda Research Institute USA Multi-modal scene representation and navigation in Habitat; Advisor: Nirav Savaliya.
2025.06 - 2025.11	Research Leader, Vision and Learning Lab, UC Merced Led Edit3r on instant 3D scene editing from sparse, unposed images; Advisor: Ming-Hsuan Yang.
2025.02 - 2025.06	Research Leader, Microsoft Research MindJourney: Test-time scaling with controllable world models for 3D spatial reasoning; Advisor: Jianwei Yang.
2024.07 - 2024.10	Research Participant, UMass Amherst Virtual Community for scalable embodied AI worlds; Advisor: Chuang Gan.
2023.11 - 2024.06	Research Leader, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab ARCHITECT and RILA for 3D scene generation and audio-visual navigation; Advisor: Chuang Gan.
2024.09 - 2025.12 (expected)	M.S. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences (GPA: 4.00/4.00).
2020.09 - 2024.07	B.S. in Artificial Intelligence, Zhejiang University Turing Class, Chu Kochen Honors College; GPA: 3.75/4.00 (Major GPA 3.96/4.00).

Last update: Dec. 2025

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