Hi! I am an AI/ML Research Manager at S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University, supervised by Prof. Ziwei Liu. I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science from NTU in 2024 with First Class Honours (Highest Distinction).
My research focuses on Agent Systems (Agent Memory, Agentic RL, RAG) and Foundation Models (Multimodal LLMs, Benchmarking and Evaluation).
News
- 2026.04: One paper accepted to ACL 2026 Main Conference (Video-MMMU).
- 2026.02: One paper accepted to CVPR 2026 (OpenMMReasoner).
- 2025.06: One paper accepted to Findings of NAACL 2025 (LMMs-Eval).
- 2025.01: Released Video-MMMU benchmark, featured in OpenAI GPT-5 and Google Gemini 3.0 official releases.
- 2024.08: Joined NTU S-Lab as AI/ML Research Manager.
- 2024.06: Graduated from NTU with First Class Honours (Highest Distinction).
Selected Publications
Video-MMMU: Evaluating Knowledge Acquisition from Multi-Discipline Professional Videos
Kairui Hu, Penghao Wu, Fanyi Pu, Wang Xiao, Xiang Yue, Bo Li, Yuanhan Zhang, Ziwei Liu
TL;DR: A video reasoning benchmark for LMMs, evaluating knowledge acquisition from multi-discipline professional videos. Featured in OpenAI GPT-5 and Google Gemini 3.0 official releases. Adopted by Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Alibaba, ByteDance, and many others.
OpenMMReasoner: Pushing the Frontiers for Multimodal Reasoning with an Open and General Recipe
Kaichen Zhang, Keming Wu, Zuhao Yang, Bo Li, Kairui Hu, Bin Wang, Ziwei Liu, Xingxuan Li, Lidong Bing
TL;DR: An open and general recipe for pushing the frontiers of multimodal reasoning, achieving strong performance across comprehensive multimodal reasoning benchmarks.
LMMs-Eval: Reality Check on the Evaluation of Large Multimodal Models
Kaichen Zhang, Bo Li, Peiyuan Zhang, Fanyi Pu, Joshua Adrian Cahyono, Kairui Hu, Shuai Liu, Yuanhan Zhang, Jingkang Yang, Chunyuan Li, Ziwei Liu
TL;DR: A unified evaluation framework supporting 100+ tasks across text, image, video, and audio for 30+ multimodal models. 3.8k+ GitHub stars. Widely adopted across the GenAI community for model development and benchmarking.
Honors and Awards
- 2024: NTU Information Technology Management Association (ITMA) Gold Medal cum Book Prize
- 2022, 2023: NTU President Research Scholar (with Merit), URECA Undergraduate Research Programme
- 2020-2022: Dean’s List (Top 5%), College of Computing and Data Science, NTU
- 2019-2024: NTU Science and Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship (SM2), Ministry of Education Singapore
Education
- 2020.08 - 2024.06, B.Eng. in Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. GPA: 4.83/5 (First Class Honours, Highest Distinction).