Research

I want to build adaptive intelligence: systems that bring understanding and generation together, and adapt in real time through continuous interaction.

My work explores parts of this question through brain dynamics, controllable image editing, and agents that use structured knowledge.

Selected research

BrainMech overview: modeling brain dynamics across the lifespan

BrainMech — Brain Dynamics Across the Lifespan

Jiaqi Wu, Shuheng Cao, Tingting Dan, Ziquan Wei, Zhixuan Zhou, Guorong Wu

Manuscript under review

A Koopman-structured fMRI foundation model for learning and analyzing latent brain dynamics.

My work: model pretraining, distributed training, and downstream transfer evaluation.

Illustrative image-editing preview with SFT and RL (GRPO); not experimental output

Image Editing with Qwen-Image-Edit

Research in progress · UC San Diego

Improving instruction following and content preservation in image editing.

I lead SFT and RL (GRPO) post-training, with distributed training and evaluation pipelines.

CyberNeuro brain-network analysis interface

CyberNeuro

Research project · Agent systems

AI agents for brain-network analysis, evaluated on 500+ queries.

My work: planning agent design and agent harness development.

Earlier projects & reports

SlotPhys

Object-centric physical reasoning with DINOv2 and slot attention.

Structured Syntax Learning

Character-level RNNs on LaTeX algebraic geometry · June 2025.

Google Local Review Model

Rating prediction on large datasets, with Y. Zhang, J. Wang, and R. Wang.

Nonlinear Classification

Exploring nonlinear methods for pattern classification.