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 2024.

🔥 Recruiting Ph.D. students and research interns: I’m actively looking for strong and motivated students. Both onsite and remote research opportunities are available for 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 (vision-language models, multi-modal reasoning) and trustworthy large models (model alignment, robustness, fairness).

News

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

Alumni

• Bowen Sun, Undergrad@Tsinghua -> PhD student@JHU, first-author oral paper at CVPR 2026
• Samyak Rawlekar, PhD student@UIUC, first-author paper at CVPR 2026
• Zhen He, Master@Chongqing University, first-author paper at ACL 2026
• Jianing Chen, Master@CAS -> PhD student@The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, first-author papers at ICLR 2026 and NeurIPS 2025
• Yike Wu, Undergrad@SEU -> PhD student@NTU, first-author paper at ICLR 2026
• Zhen Xiong, Master@USC -> PhD student@NYU, first-author papers at ICLR 2026 and EMNLP 2025
• Zhenlong Yuan, PhD@CAS, two first-author papers at ICLR 2026
• Haonan Ge, Undergrad@SEU -> PhD student@UCSB, first-author paper at EMNLP 2025
• Sifan Li, Master@Liaoning University -> PhD student@CAS, first-author oral paper at EMNLP 2025
• Zhecheng Li, Master@UCSD -> TikTok US, first-author papers at ACL 2025 (x2), COLM 2025, and ACL 2024
• Shuyang Hao, Undergrad@SEU -> PhD student@Lancaster, first-author papers at CVPR 2025 and EMNLP 2025
• Cheng Wang, Undergrad@NUS, first-author papers at COLING 2025 and NAACL 2025

Contact

Email vanora.caiyj@gmail.com

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