Hi my friend! You found my homepage.

I’m currently living in Seattle, WA. These days I have been working on multimodal llm research at Apple. If you are also interested in NLP/CV/Multimodal, let’s connect. My email: yq729@nyu.edu.

Before joinning Apple, I received my master’s degree in Computer Science from New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 2023, and my bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Finance from Nanjing University in 2018.

I’m from Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. My MBTI is ENFJ.

Photography

I use Fujifilm X-T5 and DJI Mavic Air 2 to take photos. Check out my photos here.

Reading and Writing

I enjoy reading literature and writing articles/fictions. Check out my booklists and movie lists on Douban.

Some articles I wrote in Chinese: 纽约四年, 我的南大物理四年, 间隔年

Daily Life

I am active on Little Red Book. Check out my daily life here.

Cooking and Baking

I love sharing food with loved ones. Check out what I cooked and baked here.

Publications

• Yusu Qian, Hanrong Ye, Jean-Philippe Fauconnuer, Peter Grasch, Yinfei Yang, Zhe Gan. MIA-Bench: Towards Better Instruction Following Evaluation of Multimodal LLMs ICLR 2025 (MIA-Bench is released at link)
• Yusu Qian, Haotian Zhang, Yinfei Yang, Zhe Gan. How Easy is It to Fool Your Multimodal LLMs? An Empirical Analysis on Deceptive Prompts. SafeGenAi workshop at NeurIPS 2024 (MAD-Bench is released at link)
• Yusu Qian, Urwa Muaz, Ben Zhang, Jae Won Hyun. Reducing gender bias in word-level language models with a gender-equalizing loss function. ACL-SRW 2019
• Yusu Qian. Gender Stereotypes Differ between Male and Female Writings. ACL-SRW 2019

Education

• M.S. in Computer Science, M.S. in Informatics, New York University, Sep 2018 ~ Dec 2022
• B.S. in Physics, B.S. in Finance, Nanjing University, Sep 2014 ~ July 2018
• I also studied on campus at University of California, Berkeley for a semester in 2017, and Stanford University for a quarter in 2019

Work experience

• Apple: Machine Learning Engineer
  • (Oct 2023 - present) Vision Foundation Model, SII
  • (July 2023 - Oct 2023) Machine Learning Research, DMLI
  • (Feb 2023 - July 2023) Siri Understanding, SII
  • I joined Apple as an AIML Rotation Engineer, and rotated with above teams before deciding to join Vision Foundation Model team.
• Google: Software Engineer Intern
  • (May 2022 - Aug 2022) ADS