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👨‍🎓 About Me

Hi there! 👋 I’m a First Year PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara NLP Group, Department of Computer Science, advised by Dr. Eric Xin Wang. I graduated from the School of Engineering at the University of Liverpool.

My research interests lie in trustworthy AI and the algorithmic foundations of multimodal large models, with a focus on:

• 🎯 Multimodal reasoning and visual grounding
• 🛡️ Reliability and robustness of LLMs and VLMs
• 🔍 Autonomous agent frameworks with self-evolution

I am always open to collaboration and the exchange of ideas. If you’d like to discuss potential research opportunities or simply connect, please don’t hesitate to reach out!

🔥 News

📝 Selected Publications

Only (co-)first author papers are listed. See more on the Google Scholar.
(*indicates equal contribution)

ICLR 2026

Reasoning Within the Mind: Dynamic Multimodal Interleaving in Latent Space

Chengzhi Liu ^*, Yuzhe Yang^*, Yue Fan, Qinyue Wei, Sheng Liu, Xin Eric Wang

🌐 Project 📄 Paper 📢 Talk

ICLR 2026

Presenting a Paper is an Art: Self-Improvement Aesthetic Agents for Academic Presentations

Chengzhi Liu ^*, Yuzhe Yang^*, Kaiwen Zhou, Zhen Zhang, Yue Fan, Yanan Xie, Peng Qi, Xin Eric Wang

🌐 Project 📄 Paper

NeurIPS 2025

More Thinking, Less Seeing? Assessing Amplified Hallucination in Multimodal Reasoning Models

Chengzhi Liu^*, Zhongxing Xu^*, Qinyue Wei, Juncheng Wu, James Zou, Xin Eric Wang, Yuyin Zhou, Sheng Liu

🌐 Project 📄 Paper

ICLR 2025

Multimodal Situational Safety

Kaiwen Zhou^*, Chengzhi Liu^*, Xuandong Zhao, Anderson Compalas, Dawn Song, Xin Eric Wang

🌐 Project 📄 Paper

AAAI 2025 Oral

Incomplete Modality Disentangled Representation for Ophthalmic Disease Grading and Diagnosis

Chengzhi Liu^*, Zile Huang^*, Zhe Chen, Feilong Tang, Yu Tian, Zhongxing Xu, Zihong Luo, Yalin Zheng, Yanda Meng

🌐 Project 📄 Paper

ICLR 2025

Intervening Anchor Token: Decoding Strategy in Alleviating Hallucinations for MLLMs

Feilong Tang^*, Zile Huang^*, Chengzhi Liu, Qiang Sun, Harry Yang, Ser-Nam Lim

📄 Paper

📖 Education

🧑‍⚖️ Academic Services