• About

    AIMING Lab.  The AIMING Lab is led by Dr. Huaxiu Yao at UNC-Chapel Hill. AIMING stands for Adaptive Intelligence through Alignment, Interaction and Learning. We aim to develop adaptive intelligent agents with strong generalization and adaptation capabilities, achieved through precise alignment, efficient interaction, and continuous learning.

    Lab News

    [2024.09] Five papers were accepted by NeurIPS 2024 (three main track, two D&B track)

    [2024.09] One paper was accepted by EMNLP 2024

    [2024.07] One paper was accepted by ECCV 2024, one paper was accepted by COLM 2024

  • Our team

    Ph.D. Students

    [Fall 2024 - now] Yiyang Zhou, Achievement: ICLR'24, ECCV'24, NeurIPS'24*3, preprint'24*2

    [Fall 2024 - now] Zhaoyang Wang, Achievement: NeurIPS'24, preprint'24*2

    [Fall 2024 - now] Wenhao Zheng, Achievement: NeurIPS'24*2

    [Fall 2024 - now] Peng Xia, visiting PhD student, Achievement: MICCAI'24, EMNLP'24, NeurIPS'24, preprint'24*2

    Interns/Visitors

    [2024 - now] Zhiyuan Fan, independent researcher (gap year), Achievement: preprint'24

    [2024 - now] Siwei Han (she/her), undergrad@Fudan U, Achievement: ICML'24

    [2024 - now] Dongjie Cheng, independent researcher, Achievement: preprint'24

    [2023 - now] Chenhang Cui, independent researcher, Achievement: ICLR'24a, ECCV'24, preprint'23*2, preprint'24*2

    [2023 - now] Zhaorun Chen, M.S. student@Purdue -> Ph.D. student@UChicago, Achievement: ICML'24, NAACL'24, preprint'24

    Alumni

    [2023] Qichuan Yin, undergrad@PKU -> Ph.D. student@UChicago, Achievement: preprint'23

    [2023] Taixi Lu, undergrad@UNC -> Amazon, Achievement: preprint'24

    [2023] Haoqiang Kang, undergrad@UW -> Ph.D. student@UCSD, Achievement: preprint'23a

    [2023] Kartherina Tian (she/her), undergrad@Harvard, Achievement: preprint'23a

    [2023] Xiaohui Zhang, M.S.@BJTU -> Ph.D. student@Notre Dame, Achievement: CVPR'24

    [2022] Fahim Tajwar, undergrad@Stanford -> Ph.D. student@CMU, Achievement: preprint'23a

    [2022 - 2023] Zhenbang Wu, Ph.D. student@UIUC, co-mentored with Prof. Jimeng Sun, Achievement: preprint'22a, NeurIPS'23

    [2022 - 2023] Xinyu Yang, undergrad@SJTU -> Ph.D. student@CMU, Achievements: TMLR'23b, preprint'22a

    [2022] Caroline Choi (she/her), undergrad@Stanford, Achievement: NeurIPS'22b

    [2022] Yiping Wang, undergrad@ZJU -> Ph.D. student@UW, Achievement: NeurIPS'22a

    [2022] Zhiyu Xie (she/her), undergrad@THU -> MS student@Stanford, Achievements: preprint'23a

    [2021 - 2022] Bochuan Cao, undergrad@UESTC -> Ph.D. student@PSU, Achievement: NeurIPS'22b

    [2021 - 2022] Yu Wang, undergrad@USTC -> Ph.D. student@UCSD, Achievements: NeurIPS'21a, ICML'22

    [2021] Yingxin Wu (she/her), undergrad@USTC -> Ph.D. student@Stanford, Achievement: EMNLP'21

    [2021] Yingxiu Zhao (she/her), Ph.D. student@HKUST, co-mentored with Prof. Nevin Zhang, Achievement: ACL'22

    [2020] Jiatu Shi (industry practitioner), senior engineer@Alibaba -> senior engineer@ByteDance, Achievement: WSDM'21

    [2019] Xinshi Zang, undergrad@SJTU -> Ph.D. student@CUHK, Achievement: AAAI'20

  • Lab OPenings

    Prospective Ph.D./MS Students (Fall 2025)

    ConferenceI am actively seeking highly motivated 2-3 Ph.D. students. During this hiring cycle, I am especially interested in seeking students with experience in AI Alignment (e.g., RLHF, modality alignment), Robot Learning/Embodied AI (e.g., VLA), AI Agents and RAG.

     

    Application process:

    1. complete the UNC online application (GRE is not required)

    2. complete the required application form to ensure that your application will not get lost

    3. send an email to huaxiu.recruiting@gmail.com with your CV and transcripts

     

    Expectations

    1. Strong coding skills

    2. Solid background in mathematics and statistics

    3. At least one publication or submission in ML (ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR), CV (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV), NLP (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL), or Robotics (CoRL, RSS, ICRA, IROS) conferences (optional if a candidate is exceptionally strong in coding/maths).

    Prospective Interns (all year)

    I am actively seeking highly motivated multiple interns/visiting students.

     

    Application process:

    1. complete the required application form to ensure that your application will not get lost

    2. send an email to huaxiu.recruiting@gmail.com with your CV and transcripts

     

    For more detailed information about the available positions, please refer to the following advertisements: [English Advertisement], [Chinese Advertisement].