Qihua Dong's
I am currently a PhD at Northeastern University, Boston. I graduated from City University of Hong Kong with a major in computer science and a minor in math.
My research interests focus on reasoning and visual understanding in (M)LLMs, including reinforcement learning and tool-use agents. My prior experience spans multimodal LLMs, image segmentation, and medical image analysis (2D/3D registration).
ps: You may reach me by email, twitter or github. Feel free to talk.
News
| Jan 26, 2026 | One paper accepted at ICLR 2026: Ref-Adv: Exploring MLLM Visual Reasoning in Referring Expression Tasks! |
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| Oct 03, 2025 | Honored to receive the Outstanding Reviewer Award at ICCV 2025! |
| May 01, 2025 | Excited to join Amazon AGI Foundation Team as Applied Scientist Intern, working on visual reasoning with Hao Yang! |
| May 28, 2024 | Thrilled to join Adobe Research as Research Intern, working on MLLM for referring segmentation with the kind and inspiring Luis A. Figueroa! |
| Sep 06, 2023 | Became a PhD candidate at Smile Lab, working under the guidance of Professor Fu. |
Projects
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IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2023


