I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Data Science at Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute of UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Zhiting Hu. I expect to graduate at the end of 2026. I’m now a research scientist at, and during my Ph.D. work closely with MBZUAI IFM, advised by Hector Liu and Prof Eric Xing.

Prior to joining UCSD, I obtained my B.ENG. degree at ACM Honors Class, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in June 2022, advised by Prof. Yong Yu.

I work on foundation models and reasoning.

Selected Publications

PAN: A World Model for General, Interactable, and Long-Horizon World Simulation
PAN Team (Zihan Liu, Yi Gu, Mingkai Deng, Guangyi Liu, Zeyu Feng, Qiyue Gao, Yiyan Hu, Benhao Huang, Yichi Yang, Kun Zhou, Jiannan Xiang, Zhiting Hu, Zhengzhong Liu, Eric P. Xing)
Preprint [Website] [Paper]

Accelerating Structured Chain-of-Thought in Autonomous Vehicles
Yi Gu, Yan Wang, Yuxiao Chen, Yurong You, Wenjie Luo, Yue Wang, Wenhao Ding, Boyi Li, Heng Yang, Boris Ivanovic, Marco Pavone
Preprint [Paper]

Efficient Long-context Language Model Training by Core Attention Disaggregation
Yonghao Zhuang, Junda Chen, Bo Pang, Yi Gu, Yibo Zhu, Yimin Jiang, Ion Stoica, Eric Xing, Hao Zhang
MLSys 2026 [Paper] [Code]

Reasoning with Language Model is Planning with World Model
Shibo Hao*, Yi Gu*, Haodi Ma, Joshua Jiahua Hong, Zhen Wang, Daisy Zhe Wang, Zhiting Hu
EMNLP 2023 [Paper] [Code] [State of AI Report 2023]

* indicates equal contribution

Honors and Awards

Zhiyuan Outstanding Student Scholarship, 2022
National Scholarship of P.R. China, 2021
Rong Chang Scholarship in Technological Innovation, 2019 and 2020
Gold Medal, The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 2019 Xuzhou Site
Champion, The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) 2018 Singapore Site

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