Jiageng Liu

Jiageng Liu (刘家耕)

I am a Ph.D. student in the UCLA Mobility Lab at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), advised by Prof. Jiaqi Ma.

Previously, I received my M.S. in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I worked closely with Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang at UC Merced.

Before that, 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.

Email: jiagengliu02@g.ucla.edu
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The photo was taken in ZJU for my graduation.

News

[2026.06] One paper was accepted as an oral paper at ECCV 2026.
[2026.06] Started my Ph.D. in the UCLA Mobility Lab.
[2026.01] One paper was accepted to ICLR 2026.
[2025.12] Started a research internship at Honda Research Institute USA.
[2025.09] One paper was accepted to NeurIPS 2025.

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[2024.10] One paper was accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
[2024.09] Started my M.S. in CICS at UMass Amherst.
[2024.03] One paper was accepted to CVPR 2024.
[2023.12] Received the National Scholarship in China.
[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 focuses on embodied AI, spatial intelligence, and multimodal world modeling. I study how agents perceive, reason, and act in complex 3D environments, with interests in vision-language models, generative simulation, 3D scene understanding and editing, and test-time reasoning. More broadly, I aim to build interactive systems that tightly couple perception, memory, and action.

Availability

Feel free to reach out if you'd like to schedule a meeting.

	AutoAgent0: An Agentic Runtime for Safe Closed-Loop Driving Preprint, 2026 Jiageng Liu, Seth Z. Zhao, Zewei Zhou, Alejandro Huerta, Aidan Bayer-Calvert, Yuxin Bao, Haotian Lin, Robert Spataru, Zijun Cui, Yining Hong, Bolei Zhou, Jiaqi Ma [pdf] [web] [bibtex]
	ESI-Bench: Towards Embodied Spatial Intelligence that Closes the Perception-Action Loop Preprint, 2026 Yining Hong, Jiageng Liu, Han Yin, Manling Li, Leonidas Guibas, Fei-Fei Li, Jiajun Wu, Yejin Choi [pdf] [web] [code] [dataset] [bibtex]
	Do Joint Audio-Video Generation Models Understand Physics? Preprint, 2026 Zijun Cui, Xiulong Liu, Hao Fang, Mingwei Xu, Jiageng Liu, Zexin Xu, Weiguo Pian, Shijian Deng, Feiyu Du, Chenming Ge, Yapeng Tian* [pdf] [web] [code] [dataset] [bibtex]
	LSM-VLM: Long-Short Memory VLM with World-Model for 3D Spatial Reasoning Preprint, 2026 Jiageng Liu, Nirav Savaliya, Faizan Siddiqui, Sahith Reddy Chada, Enna Sachdeva [pdf] [bibtex]
	Edit3r: Instant 3D Scene Editing from Sparse Unposed Images ECCV 2026 (Oral) Jiageng Liu, Weijie Lyu, Xueting Li, Yejie Guo, Ming-Hsuan Yang [pdf] [web] [bibtex]
	Virtual Community: An Open World for Humans, Robots, and Society ICLR 2026 (Poster) Qinhong Zhou, Hongxin Zhang, Xiangye Lin, Zheyuan Zhang, Yutian Chen, Wenjun Liu, Zunzhe Zhang, Sunli Chen, Lixing Fang, Qiushi Lyu, Xinyu Sun, Jincheng Yang, Zeyuan Wang, Bao Chi Dang, Zhehuan Chen, Daksha Ladia, Quang Vinh Dang, Jiageng Liu*, Chuang Gan [pdf] [web]
	MindJourney: Test-Time Scaling with World Models for Spatial Reasoning NeurIPS 2025 (Poster) Yuncong Yang, Jiageng Liu, Zheyuan Zhang, Siyuan Zhou, Reuben Tan, Jianwei Yang, Yilun Du, Chuang Gan [pdf] [web] [bibtex]
	ARCHITECT: Generating Vivid and Interactive 3D Scenes with Hierarchical 2D Inpainting NeurIPS 2024 (Poster) Yian Wang, Xiaowen Qiu, Jiageng Liu, Zhehuan Chen, Jiting Cai, Yufei Wang, Tsun-Hsuan Wang, Zhou Xian, Chuang Gan* [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, Anoop Cherian, Tim K. Marks, Jonathan Le Roux, Chuang Gan [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, Yongqi Wang, Aoxiong Yin, Ziang Zhang, Zhou Zhao [pdf] [web] [bibtex]
	WordDiffuser: Helping Beginners Cognize and Memorize Glyph-semantic Pairs Using Diffusion ISCID 2023 Yuhang Xu, Wanxu Xia, Yipeng Chen, Jiageng Liu, Weitao You [pdf] [bibtex]

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS 2025, NeurIPS 2026, CVPR 2026
Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (OJ-ITS)

Experience

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.
2023.11 - 2024.06	Research Leader, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab ARCHITECT and RILA for 3D scene generation and audio-visual navigation;

Education

2026.05 - Present	Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA Mobility Lab; advised by Jiaqi Ma.
2024.09 - 2025.12	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: May. 2026

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