
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
[2025.09] Four papers were accepted by EMNLP 2025 (two main track, two findings)
[2025.07] Two papers were accepted by COLM 2025
[2025.05] Three papers were accepted by ICML 2025, four papers were accepted by ACL 2025 (two main track, two findings)
[2025.01] Six papers were accepted by ICLR 2025, two papers were accepted by findings of NAACL 2025, and one paper was accepted by ICRA
[2024.09] Five papers were accepted by NeurIPS 2024 (three main track, two D&B track), One paper was accepted by EMNLP 2024
OUR TEAM
Ph.D. Students
Lu Feng
From Spring 2025
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Current MS Students
- Grace Wang
- Jianwen Chen
Current Interns and Collaborating Students
- Zhaorun Chen
- Shi Qiu
- Fan Nie
- Xinyu Yang
- Kangyu Zhu
- Jianshu She
- Yangfan He
- Yaofeng Su
- Haonian Ji
- Siyang Xin
- Ding Zhong
- Yiming Liang
Current High School Students
- Duan Wang
Lab OPenings
Prospective Ph.D./MS Students (Fall 2026)
I am actively seeking highly motivated 3 Ph.D. students. During this hiring cycle, I am especially interested in seeking students with experience in Reinforcement Learning and Reasoning, AI Agents, Robot Learning/Embodied AI, AI for biomedicine.
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].
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