Sicong Jiang

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Sicong Jiang

I'm a final-year Ph.D. candidate at McGill University and currently a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind. I previously served as Research Director at Abaka AI. In the open-source AI community, I'm a core contributor at 2077AI2077AI and work closely with the M-A-PM-A-P. I received my Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

My research focuses on building reliable and robust AI agents powered by Large Language Models and multimodal foundation models. I develop structured benchmarks, agent environments, and reward models to improve open-ended reasoning, long-horizon planning, and robustness. My goal is to bridge foundation models and real-world autonomous systems, enabling agents that are capable and trustworthy.

📢 Actively looking for full-time industry roles starting in Fall 2026. Happy to connect!

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Mar 2026

🚀 Excited to join Google DeepMind as a Research Intern in London, UK.

Feb 2026

🎉 Two papers accepted by CVPR 2026 (1 Main + 1 Findings).

Feb 2026

🎉 Two papers accepted by ICRA 2026. Check FASIONAD+, MTRDrive.

Jan 2026

🎉 One paper accepted by ICLR 2026. Check EditReward.

Nov 2025

🎉 One paper accepted (oral) by Bridge Program of AAAI 2026.

Aug 2025

🎉 One paper accepted by EMNLP 2025. Check AgentThink.

Aug 2025

🤝 Joined 2077AI-Foundation—thrilled to contribute to the AI open-source community!

Jul 2025

🚀 Joined Abaka AI as a Research Scientist in Palo Alto, California.

Jul 2025

🎉 One paper accepted by ICCV 2025 Foundation Models for AD Workshop. Check VLA4AD Survey.

Mar 2025

✉️ Invited to contribute to Humanity's Last Exam, an AGI reasoning benchmark.

Feb 2025

🎉 One paper accepted by ICLR 2025 Trustworthy LLM Workshop. Check SparseAttack-LLM4TS.

Jan 2025

🎉 One paper accepted by AISTATS 2025. Check Attack-LLM4TS.
* indicates equal contribution. For full list, visit Google Scholar.

AI Agents, Benchmarks & Evaluation

EditReward pipeline

EditReward: A Human-Aligned Reward Model for Instruction-Guided Image Editing

K. Wu*, S. Jiang*, M. Ku, P. Nie, M. Liu, W. Chen
ICLR 2026
Website  •  Paper  •  GitHub ⭐ 120

AgentThink: Tool-Augmented Reasoning in VLMs for Autonomous Driving

AgentThink: Tool-Augmented Reasoning in VLMs for Autonomous Driving

K. Qian*, S. Jiang*, Y. Zhong*, Z. Luo, Z. Huang, et al.
EMNLP 2025
Website  •  Paper  •  GitHub ⭐ 138

EgoTL: Egocentric Think-Aloud Chains for Long-Horizon Tasks

EgoTL: Egocentric Think-Aloud Chains for Long-Horizon Tasks

L. Liu, D. Li, Y. Liang, S. Jiang, H. Vijay, H. Hu, et al.
CVPR 2026 Findings
Releasing soon

Foundation Models: Robustness, Safety & Applications

Survey on Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving

A Survey on Vision–Language–Action Models for Autonomous Driving

S. Jiang*, Z. Huang*, K. Qian*, Z. Luo, T. Zhu, et al.
ICCV Workshop, 2025
Paper  •  GitHub ⭐ 532  •  Tech Channel Report

Attack-LLM4TS

Adversarial Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models for Time Series Forecasting

F. Liu*, S. Jiang*, L. Miranda-Moreno, S. Choi, L. Sun
AISTATS 2025
Paper  •  GitHub ⭐ 15

FASIONAD+ framework

FASIONAD+: Enhanced Safety in Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Feedback

Z. Luo*, S. Jiang*, K. Qian*, Z. Huang, J. Miao, et al.
ICRA 2026
Paper

MTRDrive: Memory-Tool Synergistic Reasoning for Robust Autonomous Driving

MTRDrive: Memory-Tool Synergistic Reasoning for Robust Autonomous Driving in Corner Cases

Z. Luo*, K. Qian*, J. Wang, Y. Luo, J. Miao, Z. Fu, Y. Wang, S. Jiang, Z. Huang, et al.
ICRA 2026
Paper

Communication-Aware RL

Communication-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control

S. Jiang, S. Choi, L. Sun
TRB Annual Meeting (Oral), 2024
Paper

Student Researcher
Mar 2026 – Present · London, UK

LLM-as-Judge for Open-ended Tasks: Researching on rubric-based LLM evaluators for open-ended outputs and trajectories, and systematically probing judge failure modes to support trustworthy agent self-improvement.

Self-evolving Agent: Building agents that iteratively improve their policies via self-refinement loops, with a focus on reliable feedback signals and long-horizon behavior.

Director of Research
Aug 2025 – Feb 2026 · Palo Alto, CA, United States

Research: As a founding member of the Research team, I lead benchmarking and evaluation for agentic and multimodal LLMs. I led the EditReward project and co-developed large-scale benchmarks including SuperGPQA and VeriWeb.

Advanced Dataset & Pipeline Design: Led several zero-to-one pipeline builds—architecting and deploying high-difficulty dataset solutions and production pipelines from scratch across coding, IMO-level math, multimodal data, agentic trajectories, and RL environments. These datasets and pipelines are directly used for model training and evaluation for multiple frontier AI labs.

Applied Scientist Intern
May 2025 – Aug 2025 · Remote

Multimodal Data Pipelines: Built data pipelines and multi-stage QA systems for multimodal LLM projects, overseeing large-scale annotation workflows and label consistency.

Dataset Quality & Validation: Conducted analysis and validation to refine annotations and ensure robust datasets for LLM post-training.

Research Assistant
Jan 2022 – May 2025 · Montreal, QC, Canada

AgentThink (Agent Reasoning): Led a collaboration with Xiaomi and Tsinghua on tool-augmented reasoning for vision-language models in autonomous driving, achieving +54% answer accuracy on open-source models.

Adversarial LLM4TS: Developed a black-box attack framework and public benchmarks for LLM-based time-series forecasting, in collaboration with the Amazon Chronos and Nixtla teams.

Research Assistant
Aug 2019 – Dec 2020 · Atlanta, GA, United States

Multi-Agent RL Exploration: Developed a multi-agent search strategy combining MADDPG with frontier-based exploration, and built evaluation benchmarks for exploration efficiency.

Awards

2024

McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (MEDA)

2021

TISED Doctoral Recruitment Award (DRA), McGill University

2019

Outstanding Graduate of Liaoning Province; Most Influential Graduate, Northeastern University

2017

National 1st Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling

2017

1st Class Academic Scholarship, Northeastern University

Academic Service

Workshops Organizer

Conferences Reviewer

  • Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
  • IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
  • Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)
  • Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  • IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC)

Journals Reviewer

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
  • Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (TRC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS)

I enjoy music by Tyler, the Creator, SZA and Chappell Roan.

Sometimes I also listen to Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and 9m88.

My favorite influencer is Allywoo on RedNote.

Cat: Bobo, a golden shaded British Shorthair who is good at programming with buttons.

Bobo