Hi, I'm Yansen. Researcher, builder, and curious mind.
I explore how brains and machines make sense of signals, time, and the world around us.
Based in Shanghai · Often thinking about brains, models, and good questions.
Recent updates
EgoBrain was accepted to ICLR 2026, connecting egocentric vision with brain signals for human action understanding.
Three projects on model composition, spike sorting, and relative position encoding appeared at NeurIPS 2025.
NeuroLM, a universal foundation model bridging language and EEG signals, appeared at ICLR 2025.
In public
TEDxBeijing · Talk
Why the next brain-computer interface may begin with a better definition of the human need, not a more complex decoder.
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Microsoft Research · Profile
A conversation about AI for Brain, Brain for AI, and the cross-disciplinary path from curiosity to systems people can actually use.
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Foundation models and generative systems that translate EEG and other neural recordings into meaningful representations.
Efficient sequence models inspired by neural dynamics, oscillations, and the computational motifs found in biological systems.
Models that connect language, vision, behavior, and brain activity to understand perception in richer contexts.
Publications
ICLR 2026
N. Lin, Y. Wang, D. Han, W. Jiang, J. Li, R. Furuta, Y. Sato, D. Li
PaperICLR 2025
W. Jiang, Y. Wang, B. Lu, D. Li
PaperNeurIPS 2025
Y. Zhang, D. Han, Y. Wang, Z. Lv, Y. Gu, D. Li
PaperNeurIPS 2025
C. Lv, Y. Wang, D. Han, Y. Shen, X. Zheng, X. Huang, D. Li
PaperNeurIPS 2025
X. Wang, K. Song, X. Tan, et al., Y. Wang, et al.
PaperICASSP 2025
J. Li, Y. Wang, N. Lin, D. Li
PaperNeurIPS 2024
X. Liu, Y. Liu, Y. Wang, K. Ren, et al.
PaperICML 2024
C. Lv, Y. Wang, D. Han, X. Zheng, X. Huang, D. Li
PaperNeurIPS 2024
C. Lv, D. Han, Y. Wang, X. Zheng, X. Huang, D. Li
PaperCIKM 2024
B. Jing, Y. Wang, G. Sui, J. Hong, J. He, Y. Yang, D. Li, K. Ren
PaperAAAI Spring Symposium 2024
Y. Chen, K. Ren, K. Song, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, D. Li, L. Qiu
PaperNeurIPS 2023
Y. Chen, K. Ren, Y. Wang, Y. Fang, W. Sun, D. Li
PaperNeurIPS 2023
K. Yi, Y. Wang, K. Ren, D. Li
PaperPreprint
Y. Lan, K. Ren, Y. Wang, W. Zheng, D. Li, B. Lu, L. Qiu
PaperICML 2023
Y. Wang, X. Jiang, K. Ren, C. Shan, X. Luo, D. Han, K. Song, Y. Shen, D. Li
PaperCVPR 2022
R. Shi, X. Jiang, C. Shan, Y. Wang, D. Li
PaperEMNLP 2020
Y. Wang, Z. Fan, C. P. Rose
PaperAAAI 2019
Y. Wang, Y. Shen, Z. Liu, P. P. Liang, A. Zadeh, L. P. Morency
PaperAAAI 2019
J. Guan*, Y. Wang*, M. Huang
PaperACL 2018
Y. Wang*, C. Liu*, M. Huang, L. Nie
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Background
My work has moved from language and multimodal interaction toward neural signals and brain-inspired intelligence.
Senior Researcher, Shanghai AI/ML Group
Master of Language Technologies, Language Technologies Institute
Advisor: Prof. Carolyn Penstein RoseSummer Research Intern, MultiComp Lab
Advisor: Prof. Louis-Philippe MorencyB.E. in Computer Science and Technology
Advisor: Prof. Minlie HuangContact