About Me

Hi there! I am a third-year CS PhD student at the University of Notre Dame University of Notre Dame monogram , advised by Professor Xiangliang Zhang and grateful for the guidance of Professor Yapeng Tian. My research focuses on post-training LLMs and MLLMs to build agents that perceive, reason, and act. I also serve as an Area Chair for ARR 2026.

During my Ph.D., I interned at Zillow Zillow logo on self-evolving LLM agents (Summer 2026), Samsung Research America SAMSUNG on long-term memory agents (Spring 2026), and Bosch AI Center Bosch logo on agentic multimodal RAG (Summer 2025).

News

2026.08 Our paper TRUSTMEM was accepted to EMNLP 2026 and received the Samsung Best Paper Award. Samsung Research America internship work. Many thanks to my mentors for their guidance and support.
2026.06 Served as an Area Chair for EMNLP 2026.
2026.06 One paper accepted by COLM 2026.
2026.06 Joined Zillow as an Applied Scientist Intern.
2026.04 We are excited to announce the KnowledgeMR Workshop at CVPR 2026. We invite paper submissions.
2026.04 One first-author paper accepted by ACL 2026. Thanks to my amazing collaborators.
2026.01 Joined Samsung Research America as a Research Scientist Intern.
2025.09 Two papers accepted by EMNLP 2025, including one first-author paper. Thanks to my amazing collaborators.
2025.09 We are excited to announce the AI for Scientific Research Workshop at AAAI 2026. We invite paper submissions.
2025.06 We are excited to announce the KnowledgeMR Workshop at ICCV 2025. We invite paper submissions.
2025.06 We will organize a tutorial on Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning at CVPR 2025. See you in Nashville!
2025.05 Three papers accepted by ACL 2025, including one first-author paper. Thanks to my amazing collaborators.
2025.05 Joined Bosch AI Center as a Research Scientist Intern.
2024.11 One paper accepted by WSDM 2025.
2024.09 One first-author paper accepted by EMNLP 2024. Thanks to my amazing collaborators.
2024.05 I have passed the qualifying exam.
2024.05 One paper accepted by ACL 2024.
2023.10 One paper accepted by EMNLP 2023.

Organization of Tutorials and Workshops

CVPR 2026 / ICCV 2025, KnowledgeMR: Workshop on Knowledge-Intensive Multimodal Reasoning [Link]
AAAI 2026, AI4Research: Workshop on AI for Scientific Research [Link]
CVPR 2025, Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning Tutorial: Frontiers in Integrating Vision, Language, and Symbolic Representations [Link]

Selected Publications

* indicates equal contribution

TRUSTMEM: Learning Trustworthy Memory Consolidation for LLM Agents with Long-Term Memory

Tianyu Yang, Sudipta Paul, Vijay Srinivasan, Vivek Kulkarni, Srinivas Chappidi

EMNLP 2026 (Samsung Best Paper Award)

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Reason Before You Retrieve: Agentic Planning for Multi-modal RAG

Tianyu Yang, Simon Shir, Zhenzhen Li, Minhao Cheng, Xiangliang Zhang

arXiv preprint 2026

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Agentic Multimodal RAG: Roles, Decisions, and Evaluation

Tianyu Yang*, Wenliang Guo*, Xiujin Liu, Shijian Deng, Yilun Zhao, Yapeng Tian, Xiangliang Zhang

in submission 2026

DesignAgent: Interactive 3D Scene Editing via Multimodal Agentic Reasoning

Xiujin Liu*, Tianyu Yang*, Chen Zhao, Yilun Zhao, Xiangliang Zhang

in submission 2026

Multimodal mathematical reasoning teaser

Deconstructing Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning: Towards a Unified Perception-Alignment-Reasoning Paradigm

Tianyu Yang*, Sihong Wu*, Yilun Zhao, Zhenwen Liang, Lisen Dai, Chen Zhao, Minhao Cheng, Arman Cohan, Xiangliang Zhang

ACL 2026

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Quest2DataAgent: Automating End-to-End Scientific Data Collection

Tianyu Yang, Yuhan Liu, Ethan Brown, Sobin Alosious, Jason Rohr, Tengfei Luo, Xiangliang Zhang

EMNLP 2025

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CLIPErase: Efficient Unlearning of Visual-Textual Associations in CLIP

Tianyu Yang, Lisen Dai, Xiangqi Wang, Minhao Cheng, Yapeng Tian, Xiangliang Zhang

ACL 2025

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SaSR-Net: Source-Aware Semantic Representation Network for Enhancing Audio-Visual Question Answering

Tianyu Yang, Yiyang Nan, Lisen Dai, Zhenwen Liang, Yapeng Tian, Xiangliang Zhang

EMNLP 2024

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Education

2023.09 - Present, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
PhD in Computer Science

Personal Service

Area Chair: ARR Rolling Review 2026
Reviewer: ARR Rolling Review (2023-2026), CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, COLM, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, CIKM, ICDM

Experience

2026.06 - 2026.09, Zillow
Applied Scientist Intern
2026.01 - 2026.05, Samsung Research America
Research Scientist Intern
2025.05 - 2025.08, Bosch AI Center
Research Scientist Intern