Yujun Cai

About Me

I’m currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Queensland (UQ) since Nov. 2024.

🔥 Recruiting Ph.D. students and research interns: I’m actively looking for strong and motivated students. Working either onsite or remotely is fine to research interns. If you are interested in working with me, please feel free to drop me an email with your cv.

I was a Research Scientist in Meta Inc.. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Nanyang Technological University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Tat Jen Cham, Prof. Jianfei Cai, Prof. Junsong Yuan and Prof. Nadia Magnenat Thalmann. Prior to this, I obtained my Bachelor degree from Southeast University.

My research interests include multi-modal understanding and trust-worthy large models.

News

• [Sep. 2025] I will serve as an Associate Editor of Neurocomputing
• [Sep. 2025] I will serve as an Area Chair of ICLR 2025
• [Sep. 2025] One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2025
• [July. 2025] Seven papers accepted to EMNLP 2025

Alumni

• Shuyang Hao (2024.08 - 2025.09), Undergrad@SEU -> PhD student@Lancaster, First Author’s Paper at CVPR 2025, EMNLP 2025
• Cheng Wang (2024.04 - 2024.12) Undergrad@NUS, First Author’s Paper at COLING 2025, NAACL 2025
• Zhaochen Wang (2025.01 - 2025.08), Master@UQ, First Author’s Paper at COLM 2025

Contact

Email vanora.caiyj@gmail.com or yujun.cai@uq.edu.au

Address: 78 Staff House Rd, St Lucia QLD 4067, Australia