Hello, I'm a/an

I'm Yubin, a final year PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab and a student researcher at Google DeepMind .
My research objective and interest lies in Agents, AI Safety and Healthcare.
Specifically, I'm interested in bridging the gap between the Agent/Robot and Humans in real-world tasks, delivering Personalized and Long-term interactions.
I am on the job market this year!

Updates

2026

May Our paper on "Towards a General Intelligence and Interface for Wearable Health Data" is released as a preprint paper
May Our paper on "TeamBench: Evaluating Agent Coordination under Enforced Role Separation" is released as a preprint paper
May I've started a student researcher position at Google DeepMind
Apr Our paper on "Social Human Robot Embodied Conversation (SHREC) Dataset: Benchmarking Foundational Models' Social Reasoning" is accepted at RSS 2026
Apr Our paper on "CoDaS: AI Co-Data-Scientist for Biomarker Discovery via Wearable Sensors" is released as a preprint paper
Mar Gave an invited talk on "Towards a science of scaling agent systems" at 🎙️.
Feb Gave an invited talk on "Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work?" at the AI Talks with NTU & NUS. I enjoyed the discussions that followed, especially on how we can coordinate agents with different capabilities and the trade-offs between capability and cost 🎙️.
Jan Gave an invited talk on "Agent Scaling Law" at Adobe Research . I enjoyed the insightful discussions that followed, especially on how we can approach evaluation for agent systems and architectural design 🎙️.
Jan Our paper on "Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems" is released as a preprint paper

2025

Dec Gave an invited talk on "Healthcare Agents: Language Model Agents in Health Prediction and Decision-Making" at MBZUAI 🎙️.
Sep Our paper on "Tiered Agentic Oversight: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent System for AI Safety in Healthcare" is selected as a spotlight poster at AI Cures 2025.
Aug Our paper on "The Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent" is released as a preprint paper
Aug Our paper on "BehaviorSFT: Behavioral Token Conditioning for Clinical Agents Across the Proactivity Spectrum" is accepted as a findings paper at EMNLP 2025.
Jun I've started a research intern program at Google Research
May Our paper on "VocalAgent: Large Language Models for Vocal Health Diagnostics with Safety-Aware Evaluation" is accepted as an oral paper at Interspeech 2025.
Mar Our paper on "Social robots as conversational catalysts: Enhancing long-term human-human interaction at home" is published as a cover paper at Science Robotics.

2024

Sep Our paper on "MDAgents: An Adaptive Collaboration of LLMs for Medical Decision-Making" is accepted as an oral paper (Top 0.39%) at NeurIPS 2024.
Jul Our paper on "EmpathicStories++: A Multi-modal Dataset for Empathy towards Personal Experiences" is accepted as a Findings at ACL 2024.
May I've started a research internship at Honda Research Institute on LLMs in Displaying Group Dynamics
Apr Our paper on "Health-LLM: Large Language Models for Health Prediction via Wearable Sensor Data" is accepted at CHIL 2024.
Mar Our paper on "Diffusion-EDFs: Bi-equivariant Denoising Generative Modeling on SE(3) for Visual Robotic Manipulation" is accepted at CVPR 2024.

2023

Sep I started the MAS graduate program at MIT Media Lab
Jul Our paper on "HIINT: Historical, Intra-and Inter-personal Dynamics Modeling with Cross-person Memory Transformer" is accepted at ICMI 2023
Apr Our paper on "Multipar-T: Multiparty-Transformer for Capturing Contingent Behaviors in Group Conversations" is accepted at IJCAI 2023
Jan Our paper on "Joint Engagement Classification using Video Augmentation Techniques for Multi-person Human-robot Interaction" is accepted at AAMAS 2023

2022

Jul I started my visiting scholar program at MIT

Projects

My experience has been focused on implementing personalized technology with foundation models for human-agent interactions in an intuitive and reciprocal manner. Specifically, I am interested in developing personal agents that can maintain long-term interactions with humans in the wild and perform continual learning.

CoDaS: AI Co-Data-Scientist for Biomarker Discovery via Wearable Sensors
Under Review

TeamBench: Evaluating Agent Coordination under Enforced Role Separation
Under Review

Towards a General Intelligence and Interface for Wearable Health Data
Under Review

Tiered Agentic Oversight: A Hierarchical Multi-Agent System for AI Safety in Healthcare
AI Cures 2025 Spotlight

The Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent
Under Review

Towards a Science of Scaling Agent Systems
Nature Machine Intelligence

InvThink: Mitigating Safety Risks Through Inverse Reasoning
Under Review

Health-LLM: Large Language Models for Health Prediction via Wearable Sensor Data
CHIL 2024

MDAgents: Adaptive Collaboration Strategy for LLMs in Medical Decision Making
NeurIPS 2024 Oral (Top 0.39%)

Conversational AI Agents for Elder Care

Digital Companion Robot Design for Older Adults

Development of Auto Dyadic App

MineRL: Training AI agents in Open World Environments

ICRA RoboMaster AI Challenge

Development of Indoor Serving Robot

Explainable Human-Robot Interaction Learning with Video Augmentation Techniques
AAMAS 2023