Jianru Li

Second-year undergraduate in Artificial Intelligence at South China University of Technology.

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Research Intern @ HKUST(GZ) ENVISION Lab

Advised by Ying-Cong Chen

I am Jianru Li (Pinco), a second-year undergraduate majoring in Artificial Intelligence at South China University of Technology. My research focuses on Multi-Agent Systems, Agent Memory, and AIGC. I am currently a research intern at HKUST(GZ) ENVISION Lab.

I am interested in building agents that can perceive, plan, remember, and act across complex tasks. Alongside research, I enjoy turning ideas into working systems — from on-device assistants to campus-scale software products.

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SymbOmni: Evolving Agentic Omni Models via Symbolic Concept Learning
Jianru Li†, Jinxiu Liu†, Tanqing Kuang†, Xuanming Liu, Kangfu Mei (Google DeepMind), Yandong Wen (WU/MPI), Weiyang Liu (CUHK/MPI)   †Equal contribution
Under review
Solved the continuous learning bottleneck in visual generation by proposing SymbOmni, which utilizes a Symbolic Concept Box and Verbalized Backpropagation. Achieved state-of-the-art on AIGC benchmarks with >40% token reduction, outperforming mainstream closed-source models.
  SOTA on AIGC Benchmarks   >40% Token Reduction   3 Positive Reviews at CVPR 2026

Experience

Visiting Student — Summer School

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

[Incoming] Jul – Aug 2026

Fully funded & interview-exempt via official nomination.

Research Intern

HKUST(GZ) ENVISION Lab · Advised by Ying-Cong Chen

Jan 2026 – Present

International Top-Tier Innovative Talent Development Program

Columbia University · Prof. Patrick Houlihan

Oct 2024 – Jan 2025

Data Science: ML and NLP

Selected Projects

China Collegiate Computing Contest (C4) — Veevo Agent Development

Team Lead & Lead Developer

Apr – Sep 2025

Spearheaded a cross-platform on-device AI assistant (Qt6 & MCP), enabling autonomous planning and tool-calling for complex tasks.

SCUT School of FutureTech Metaverse

Tech Lead

Oct 2024 – Jan 2025

Spearheaded a low-cost, automated Metaverse pipeline utilizing Dr. Fei-Fei Li's team's "Digital Cousins" tech, transforming basic blueprints/photos into an integrated virtual campus with minimal human intervention.

Smiling Weather Mini Program

Shenzhen Foreign Languages School Meteorology & Astronomy Club

2020 – 2023

Developed in collaboration with the Shenzhen Meteorological Bureau data platform. Served over 10,000+ users.

Honors & Awards

Campus Second-Class Scholarship
SCUT · Oct 2025
Mathematical Contest in Modeling — First Prize
Guangdong · Oct 2025
Tencent Rhino-Bird Open Source — Outstanding Student
Tencent Docs Project · Sep 2025
"Shenzhen Cup" Math Modeling — First Prize
Jun 2025
C4 AIGC Innovation Track — Second Prize
South China Regional · Jul 2025
Embedded Chip & System Design — Second Prize
Southern Regional · Jul 2025
Future Technology · Baidu Brain Cup — First Prize
Jan 2025
NOI in Provinces (Junior) — Second Prize
2018