Siyuan Liu (刘思远)

Photo by Yuhao, at HK

I am an incoming Ph.D. student at School of Computer Science in Nanjing University, advised by Prof. Yinghuan Shi. I obtained Bachelor degree from Nanjing University in 2026. Previously, I was grateful to work with Prof. Kai Han and Prof. Rui Yan during my research internship.

My current research interests primarily lie in MLLM.

Email: liusiyuan [at] smail.nju.edu.cn

News

[Aug, 2026] One paper is accepted by EMNLP 2026 Main Conference.
[Jan, 2026] Delighted to receive Tang Zhongying Moral Education Scholarship in my final year at university.
[Sep, 2025] Glad to be awarded Outstanding Student Leader (Model) of Nanjing University.
[Sep, 2025] Glad to receive National Scholarship for the second time.
[July, 2025] Join Visual AI Lab as a student research assistant.
[July, 2025] Start to work as a student Research Assistant at HKU CDS.
[May, 2025] I am awarded Outstanding Youth League Cadre (Model) of Nanjing University (南京大学优秀共青团干部标兵). Thanks for teacher Qifang Li's guidance!
[April, 2025] My personal homepage is launched! Here we go!

^* denotes equal contribution.

ViCuR: Visual Cues as Recoverable Privilege for Multimodal On-Policy Distillation
Kanghui Tian^*, Siyuan Liu^*, Ziang Yan, Sheng Xia, Shuai Dong, Yi Wang
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2026
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The University of Hong Kong, Visual AI Lab
Student Research Assistant, 2025.7 - 2025.11
Advised by Prof. Kai Han

	Nanjing University Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Technology 2026.9 - Present
	Nanjing University B.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology 2022.9 - 2026.6

National Scholarship (Top 0.2% national-wide, the highest honor in China university), 2023, 2025
Guo Xie Birong Scholarship Special Award, 2024
Mobile Light Digital Intelligence Innovation Scholarship, 2024
Outstanding Student Leader (Model) of Nanjing University, 2025
Outstanding Student (Model) of Nanjing University, 2024