Lixin Xiu (修 立信)
PhD Student · The University of Tokyo
Nice to meet you! I’m currently a PhD student at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, supervised by Prof. Hideki Nakayama.
My research interests include post-training for multimodal large language models (mLLMs) and agents, multi-agent systems, and information theory.
I’m actively looking for full-time research positions. If you’d like to chat about anything, please feel free to contact me.
Education
- The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
PhD in Information Science and Technology · Oct 2024 – Sep 2027 (expected)
Supervisor: Prof. Hideki Nakayama - The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Master of Information Science and Technology · Oct 2022 – Sep 2024
Department of Mathematical Informatics - Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
B.E. in Computer Science and Technology · Aug 2018 – Jul 2022
Selected Publications
Full Publications
2026
- EMNLP MainMangaFlow: An End-to-End Agentic Framework for Controllable Story to Manga GenerationIn 31st Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Main), 2026Not yet publicly available.
- EMNLP FindingsSustaining Cross-Modal Dependency for Generalizable Vision-Language Model TuningIn 31st Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (Findings), 2026Not yet publicly available.
2024
Experience
Lightspeed Studio, Tencent
Research Intern
Tokyo, Japan · Jul 2026 – Present
Shanda AI Research Tokyo
Research Intern
Tokyo, Japan · Dec 2025 – Mar 2026
Beyond AI, the University of Tokyo and SoftBank
Research Assistant
Tokyo, Japan · Nov 2024 – Present
School of Computing, National University of Singapore
Summer Workshop — Traffic Sign Recognition Contest
Singapore · May 2021 – Jul 2021
Honors & Service
- 2027~
JSPS Research Fellowship (DC2)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Selected for the fellowship at the University of Tokyo. Fellowship tenure: April 2027 – March 2029.
- 2024~
UTokyo SPRING GX
The University of Tokyo
October 2024 – September 2027. JPY 180,000/month stipend and JPY 360,000/year research grant.
- 2022
Outstanding Graduate
Xi’an Jiaotong University
- 2020
Third Prize
12th Mathematics Competition of Chinese College Students
Academic service
Reviewer: ICLR 2026, NeurIPS 2026, ARR May 2026, ICLR 2027, ARR Oct 2026
Misc
Download my CV: English (PDF) / 中文 (PDF), or browse the online CV.