I am a second year Computer Science PhD student at USC, working with Volkan Ustun , William Swartout , Gale Lucas , and Burcin Becerik-Gerber . Previously, I worked as a Software Engineer at Bubble.io , building LLM-agents for no-code web development, and conducted research in robot learning at Columbia University's Creative Machines Lab with Hod Lipson .
My research goal is to create physically and socially grounded AI agents that learn from and collaborate with humans in both physical and simulated environments. I am currently particularly interested in:
- Multi-Agent Interaction: modeling and enabling mixed interactions among humans, robots, and AI agents in teaming, collaboration, and cooperative/competitive settings.
- Realistic Human Simulation: generating individualized and crowd-level human behaviors with behavioral realism and social awareness for simulation, game NPCs, and training environments.
- Agent Embodiment: building agents that interact with the physical world through first-person perception, robotic control, and sequential decision-making.
Selected Work
Full research list →-
GameplayQA: A Benchmarking Framework for Decision-Dense POV-Synced Multi-Video Understanding of 3D Virtual Agents
Conference ACL Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2026Multi-Agent Video Understanding Benchmark LLM Game AIYunzhe Wang, Runhui Xu, Kexin Zheng, Tianyi Zhang, Jayavibhav Niranjan Kogundi, Soham Hans, Volkan Ustun -
Learning Realistic Lip Motions for Humanoid Face Robots
Journal Science Robotics · 2026Robotics Human-Robot Interaction Speech Facial ExpressionYuhang Hu, Jiong Lin, Judah Allen Goldfeder, Philippe M. Wyder, Yifeng Cao, Steven Tian, Yunzhe Wang, Jingran Wang, Mengmeng Wang, Jie Zeng, Cameron Mehlman, Yingke Wang, Delin Zeng, Boyuan Chen, Hod Lipson -
Implicit Behavioral Alignment of Language Agents in High-Stakes Crowd Simulations
Conference EMNLP Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2025LLM Crowd Simulation Multi-Agent Human ModelingYunzhe Wang, Gale M. Lucas, Burcin Becerik-Gerber, Volkan Ustun -
Human-Robot Facial Co-expression
Journal Science Robotics · 2024Robotics Human-Robot Interaction Facial ExpressionYuhang Hu, Boyuan Chen, Jiong Lin, Yunzhe Wang, Yingke Wang, Cameron Mehlman, Hod Lipson -
Reconfigurable Robot Identification from Motion Data
Conference IROS IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · 2024Robotics Self-ModelingYuhang Hu, Yunzhe Wang, Ruibo Liu, Zhou Shen, Hod Lipson
Services
Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member/Reviewer
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024, 2025
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2024, 2025
- Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2025
- International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2025, 2026
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026