Hi there Welcome to my homepage!

I am a PhD student in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Prof. Alexandra Brintrup at SCAIL.

I completed my MPhil in Engineering at the University of Cambridge, supported by Flower Labs and SCAIL.

I received my First-Class Honours B.Eng. from the University of Birmingham, supervised by Dr Yongjing Wang at the Robotics Lab.

News

  • EmoDistill accepted to EMNLP 2026 LLM Agents Track ๐ŸŽ‰
  • VeriTrace accepted to EMNLP 2026 LLM Agents Track ๐ŸŽ‰
  • EmoMAS accepted to ACL 2026 LLM Agents Track ๐ŸŽ‰
  • EmoDebt accepted to AAMAS 2026 Main Track ๐ŸŽ‰
  • Topological Federated Clustering accepted to AAAI 2026 Main Track ๐ŸŽ‰
  • EQ-Negotiator accepted to NeurIPS2025@PersonaLLM ๐ŸŽ‰
  • HyDRO+ published in Expert Systems with Applications ๐ŸŽ‰
  • Evaluating Inter-Column Logical Relationships accepted to ICLR2025@SynData ๐ŸŽ‰

Experience

University of Cambridge
2022 โ€“ 2026
MPhil & PhD, Department of Engineering
University of Birmingham
2020 โ€“ 2022
B.Eng., First-Class Honours ยท Research Assistant, Robotics Lab
Wuhan University of Technology
2018 โ€“ 2020
B.Sc. ยท GPA: 3.8/4.0 ยท WUTE Member
Shenzhen Middle School
2015 โ€“ 2018

Publications

EmoDistill overview
EmoDistill
Yunbo Long, Haolang Zhao, Lukas Beckenbauer, Liming Xu, Alexandra Brintrup
Offline emotion-skill distillation for adversarial negotiation agents.
EMNLP 2026 ยท LLM Agents Track[arXiv]
VeriTrace overview
VeriTrace
Haolang Zhao*, Yunbo Long*, Lukas Beckenbauer, Alexandra Brintrup
* Equal contribution.
Evolving cognitive graphs for reliable deep-research agents.
EMNLP 2026 ยท LLM Agents Track[arXiv]
EmoMAS overview
EmoMAS
Yunbo Long, Yuhan Liu, Liming Xu
Bayesian orchestration for emotion-aware edge negotiation agents.
ACL 2026 ยท LLM Agents Track[arXiv]
EmoDebt overview
EmoDebt
Yunbo Long, Yuhan Liu, Liming Xu, Alexandra Brintrup
Emotion-aware strategic reasoning for agent-to-agent debt recovery.
AAMAS 2026 ยท Main Track[arXiv]
TopoFC overview
GFC
Yunbo Long*, Jiaquan Zhang*, Xi Chen, Alexandra Brintrup
* Equal contribution.
One-shot private federated clustering with gravitational potential fields.
AAAI 2026 ยท Main Track[arXiv]
TabLM post-training overview
TabGRAA
Yunbo Long*, Tejumade Afonja*, Guangya Hao, Alexandra Brintrup, Mario Fritz
* Equal contribution.
Iterative reward-guided post-training for tabular language models.
arXiv 2026[arXiv]
Helicase architecture
Helicase
Yunbo Long, Haolang Zhao, Ge Zheng, Alexandra Brintrup
Uncertainty-guided supply-chain knowledge graph construction with autonomous agents.
arXiv 2026[arXiv]
AI-Supervisor architecture
AI-Supervisor
Yunbo Long
Autonomous research supervision through a persistent research world model.
arXiv 2026[arXiv]
TabKG overview
TabKG
Yunbo Long, Ge Zheng, Liming Xu, Alexandra Brintrup
Logically consistent synthetic tables through LLM-driven knowledge graphs.
arXiv 2026[arXiv]
Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Systems overview
DecentMem
Guangya Hao, Yunbo Long, Zhuokai Zhao
Decentralized memory for self-evolving multi-agent systems.
arXiv 2026[arXiv]
Visual-to-symbolic inference overview
ViSA-R2
Pengze Li, Jiaquan Zhang, Yunbo Long, Xinping Liu, Zhou Wenjie, Encheng Su, Zihang Zeng, Jiaqi Liu, Jiyao Liu, Junchi Yu, Lihao Liu, Philip Torr, Shixiang Tang, Aoran Wang, Xi Chen
Visual-to-symbolic analytical solution inference from field visualizations.
arXiv 2026[arXiv]
SPD overview
SPD
Guangya Hao, Yitong Shang, Yunbo Long, Zhuokai Zhao, Hanxue Liang
Capability-selective subspace projection for self-policy distillation.
arXiv 2026[arXiv]
HyDRO+ overview
HyDRO+
Yunbo Long, Liming Xu, Alexandra Brintrup
Efficient privacy-preserving link prediction through condensed graphs.
Expert Systems with Applications, 2026[arXiv]
Visual anomaly detection
Anomaly Detection
Yunbo Long, Zhengyang Ling, Sam Brook, Duncan McFarlane, Alexandra Brintrup
Cost-effective visual anomaly detection with unsupervised learning.
IET Conference Proceedings, 2024[arXiv]
EQ-Negotiator overview
EQ-Negotiator
Yunbo Long, Yuhan Liu, Alexandra Brintrup
Dynamic emotional personas for edge-deployable credit negotiation.
NeurIPS2025@PersonaLLM[arXiv]
Inter-column logical relationships paper
Inter-Column Logic
Yunbo Long, Liming Xu, Alexandra Brintrup
Evaluating logical relationships in synthetic tabular data.
ICLR2025@SynData[arXiv]

Awards

  • Queens' College PhD ScholarshipUniversity of Cambridge
  • Conference ScholarshipDepartment of Engineering, University of Cambridge
  • Frank Wallace Scholarship1st in academic performance, Years 2โ€“3 ยท University of Birmingham

Academic Service

  • ReviewerNeurIPS ยท AAAI ยท ICLR
  • ReviewerIEEE TNNLS ยท TKDE ยท TIFS ยท TDSC ยท TMC ยท TSMC ยท TFS ยท ACM TKDD