I am a Research Scientist at Apodex, where I develop Agentic Foundation Models for heavy-duty, long-horizon tasks. My work covers agent scaffolding, model post-training with SFT and RL, and large-scale pretraining data curation. We are actively hiring full-time AI scientists, engineers, and research interns across these areas, so feel free to reach out by email if any of this sounds interesting to you.

I received my PhD in the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, under the supervision of Prof. Sinno Jialin Pan. During my PhD, I collaborated extensively with Dr. Wenxuan Zhang and Dr. Lidong Bing. I also hold a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from NTU.

🎓 Educations

• 2020.08 - 2024.08, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University
• 2015.08 - 2019.06, B.Eng. in Computer Science (Honours, Highest Distinction), Nanyang Technological University

📝 Publications

(* denotes equal contribution)

🤖 Agentic Foundation Models

• MiroThinker-1.7 & H1: Towards Heavy-Duty Research Agents via Verification
  MiroMind Team
  Arxiv 2026 [paper] [code]

• MiroThinker: Pushing the Performance Boundaries of Open-Source Research Agents via Model, Context, and Interactive Scaling
  MiroMind Team
  Arxiv 2025 [paper] [code]

• MiroFlow: Towards High-Performance and Robust Open-Source Agent Framework for General Deep Research Tasks
  Shiqian Su, Sen Xing, Xuan Dong, Muyan Zhong, Bin Wang, Xizhou Zhu, Yuntao Chen, Wenhai Wang, Yue Deng, Pengxiang Zhu, Ziyuan Liu, Tiantong Li, Jiaheng Yu, Zhe Chen, Lidong Bing, Jifeng Dai
  Arxiv 2026 [paper] [code]

🔬 Deep Research Evaluation

• MiroEval: Benchmarking Multimodal Deep Research Agents in Process and Outcome
  Fangda Ye, Yuxin Hu, Pengxiang Zhu, Yibo Li, Ziqi Jin, Yao Xiao, Yibo Wang, Lei Wang, Zhen Zhang, Lu Wang, Yue Deng, Bin Wang, Yifan Zhang, Liangcai Su, Xinyu Wang, He Zhao, Chen Wei, Qiang Ren, Bryan Hooi, Bo An, Shuicheng Yan, Lidong Bing
  Arxiv 2026 [paper]

• DeepResearchEval: An Automated Framework for Deep Research Task Construction and Agentic Evaluation
  Yibo Wang, Lei Wang, Yue Deng, Keming Wu, Yao Xiao, Huanjin Yao, Liwei Kang, Hai Ye, Yongcheng Jing, Lidong Bing
  Arxiv 2026 [paper] [code]

🧠 Reasoning

• Document Reconstruction Unlocks Scalable Long-Context RLVR
  Yao Xiao, Lei Wang, Yue Deng, Guanzheng Chen, Ziqi Jin, J. Kim, X. Li, R. K. Lee, Lidong Bing
  Arxiv 2026 [paper] [code]

• First Try Matters: Revisiting the Role of Reflection in Reasoning Models
  Liwei Kang, Yue Deng, Yao Xiao, Zhanfeng Mo, Wee Sun Lee, Lidong Bing
  Arxiv 2025 [paper] [code] [data]

• MiroMind-M1: An Open-Source Advancement in Mathematical Reasoning via Context-Aware Multi-Stage Policy Optimization
  Xingxuan Li*, Yao Xiao*, Dianwen Ng*, Hai Ye*, Yue Deng*, Xiang Lin*, Bin Wang*, Zhanfeng Mo, Chong Zhang, Yueyi Zhang, Zonglin Yang, Ruilin Li, Lei Lei, Shihao Xu, Han Zhao, Weiling Chen, Feng Ji, Lidong Bing
  Technical Report 2025 [paper] [code] [model]

• 100 Days After DeepSeek-R1: A Survey on Replication Studies and More Directions for Reasoning Language Models
  Chong Zhang*, Yue Deng*, Xiang Lin*, Bin Wang*, Dianwen Ng, Hai Ye, Xingxuan Li, Yao Xiao, Zhanfeng Mo, Qi Zhang, Lidong Bing
  Survey 2025 [paper]

📦 Others

• Babel - Open Multilingual Large Language Models Serving Over 90% of Global Speakers
  Yiran Zhao, Chaoqun Liu, Yue Deng, Jiahao Ying, Mahani Aljunied, Zhaodonghui Li, Lidong Bing, Hou Pong Chan, Yu Rong, Deli Zhao, Wenxuan Zhang
  Technical Report 2025 [paper] [model]

• Backdoor Attacks on Dense Retrieval via Public and Unintentional Triggers
  Quanyu Long*, Yue Deng*, LeiLei Gan, Wenya Wang, Sinno Jialin Pan
  COLM 2025 [paper] [code]

• SeaLLMs 3: Open Foundation and Chat Multilingual Large Language Models for Southeast Asian Languages
  Wenxuan Zhang, Hou Pong Chan, Yiran Zhao, Mahani Aljunied, Jianyu Wang, Chaoqun Liu, Yue Deng, Zhiqiang Hu, Weiwen Xu, Yew Ken Chia, Xin Li, Lidong Bing
  NAACL 2025 System Demonstration Track [paper] [code]

• SeaLLMs - Large Language Models for Southeast Asia
  Xuan-Phi Nguyen, Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Mahani Aljunied, Qingyu Tan, Liying Cheng, Guanzheng Chen, Yue Deng, Sen Yang, Chaoqun Liu, Hang Zhang, Lidong Bing
  ACL 2024 System Demonstration Track [paper] [code]

• Sentiment Analysis in the Era of Large Language Models: A Reality Check
  Wenxuan Zhang*, Yue Deng*, Bing Liu, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing.
  Findings of NAACL 2024 [paper] [code]

• Multilingual Jailbreak Challenges in Large Language Models
  Yue Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing.
  ICLR 2024 [paper] [code]

• SOUL: Towards Sentiment and Opinion Understanding of Language
  Yue Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing.
  EMNLP 2023 [paper] [code]

• Bidirectional Generative Framework for Cross-domain Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis
  Yue Deng, Wenxuan Zhang, Sinno Jialin Pan, Lidong Bing.
  ACL 2023 [paper] [code]

🏅 Awards

• Alibaba Talent Programme Full Scholarship, 2020-2024
• Dean’s List Award, 2016
• Science and Engineering Undergraduate Full Scholarship, 2015-2019

🖊️ Services

• Reviewer: ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, WWW, TAC, ARR

💼 Experience

• 2025.02 - Present, Research Scientist, Apodex, Singapore
• 2024.09 - 2025.02, Algorithm Engineer, TikTok Pte. Ltd., Singapore
• 2022.04 - 2024.08, Research Intern, DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group, advised by Dr. Wenxuan Zhang and Dr. Lidong Bing
• 2019.08 - 2020.06, Project Officer, HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab, advised by Prof. Sinno Jialin Pan
• 2018.12 - 2019.01, NLP Winter Intern, Baidu Inc., Shenzhen China
• 2017.12 - 2018.06, Data Scientist Intern, Shopee Pte. Ltd., Singapore