Tonglin Yan

I am a third-year Ph.D. student at the CIAMS, Université Paris-Saclay, supervised by David Rudrauf (CIAMS, Université Paris-Saclay), Alain Finkel (LMF, ENS Paris-Sacaly), and Grégoire Sergeant-Perthuis (LCQB, Sorbonne Université).

Research Interests

My research investigates human-like intelligence in virtual agents by integrating computational models of consciousness, such as the Projective Consciousness Model (PCM), with large-scale models (LLMs/MLLMs). The core of my work focuses on developing methods that fuse multimodal data (including facial expressions, gaze, movement, and language) within a unified world space to generate coherent verbal and nonverbal behavior in immersive virtual reality. I am also interested in computational models of consciousness as a scientific framework for understanding human consciousness, with a particular emphasis on linking computational theory and implementable simulations. A broader research interest lies in the evaluation of LLMs within social cognitive science, identifying specific limitations in their social reasoning, thereby advancing the development of decision-making models for virtual agents.