Hello! I’m Jinhui

I build learning systems that connect what robots know with what they do.

I am a PhD student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, supervised by Prof. Jiaya Jia. My research focuses on embodied intelligence, vision-language-action models, and generalist robot learning.

Previously, I completed an MPhil at HKUST(GZ), advised by Prof. Hui Xiong and Prof. Junwei Liang, after studying software engineering at South China University of Technology.

I initiated and maintain StarVLA, an open-source framework for building, training, and evaluating VLA models. I have also worked with Alibaba’s Qwen team, Shanghai AI Lab, CMU LTI, Stanford Vision & Learning Lab, and Tencent AI Lab.

Qwen-VLA

One model across tasks, environments, and robot embodiments.

News

Qwen-VLA technical report released.

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ST4VLA at ICLR 2026; the StarVLA infrastructure report is now on arXiv.

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StarVLA named an EAI-100 Top 10 Open-Source Project for 2025.

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FACE and Logic-in-Frames at NeurIPS 2025.

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MolErr2Fix · Oral presentation at EMNLP 2025.

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SePer · Spotlight at ICLR 2025.

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Publications

* Equal contribution Full list on Scholar ↗

GitHub stars · Semantic Scholar citations

Internships & Visits

From understanding human communication to building agents that perceive, remember, and act.

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Tencent AI Lab

Research Intern

Sign language translation
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Stanford University

Vision & Learning Lab

Research Intern

Long-form video search
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Carnegie Mellon

Language Technologies Institute

Visiting Student

Embodied memory & retrieval
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Shanghai AI Lab

Research Intern

InternVLA-M1 / ST4VLA
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Alibaba · Qwen

Research Intern

VLA training & evaluation

Education

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

PhD in Computer Science

Advisor: Prof. Jiaya Jia

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

MPhil in Artificial Intelligence

Advisors: Prof. Hui Xiong and Prof. Junwei Liang

South China University of Technology

Bachelor’s in Software Engineering · Minor in Finance

Honors & Awards

Let’s make knowledge move.

I welcome conversations around embodied AI, VLA systems, long-form video, and open-source research infrastructure.