Portrait of Wenliang Dai

Wenliang Dai

Senior Research Scientist @ NVIDIA

I am a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA, working on LLM post-training with a focus on agents, reasoning, and multimodality. Previously, I was a Research Intern at Salesforce Research. I received my Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2023, advised by Prof. Pascale Fung. Outside of work, I enjoy coffee, hiking, and interesting gadgets, and I have a lovely dog.

Research Interests

  • Large Language Models
  • Post-Training & Reinforcement Learning
  • Multimodal Learning

Research

Recent

  1. Nemotron 3 Ultra: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning

    Jun 2026Core Contributor

  2. Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI

    Jun 2026

  3. Nemotron-Cascade 2: Post-Training LLMs with Cascade RL and Multi-Domain On-Policy Distillation

    Mar 2026First AuthorGold Medal on IMO & IOI

  4. Nemotron-Cascade: Scaling Cascaded Reinforcement Learning for General-Purpose Reasoning Models

    Dec 2025First Author

Highlighted

  1. InstructBLIP: Towards General-purpose Vision-Language Models with Instruction Tuning

    May 2023First Author

  2. NVLM: Open Frontier-Class Multimodal LLMs

    Sep 2024First Author

  3. A Multitask, Multilingual, Multimodal Evaluation of ChatGPT on Reasoning, Hallucination, and Interactivity

    Feb 2023Core ContributorArea Chair Award (Language Modeling and Analysis)

  4. Survey of Hallucination in Natural Language Generation

    Feb 2022

Experience

Oct 2023 – Present
Senior Research Scientist
NVIDIA

Core contributor to multiple post-training efforts, including NVLM, Nemotron-Cascade, Nemotron-Cascade-2, and Nemotron 3 Ultra, with hands-on experience training models ranging from 7B to 550B parameters.

Feb 2023 – May 2023
Research Intern
Salesforce Research

Multimodal LLMs; trained one of the first well-established instruction-tuned VLMs (InstructBLIP).

Oct 2018 – Jun 2019
Software Engineer
Tencent (WXG)

WeChat DevTools and Mini-programs.

Education

2019 – 2023
Ph.D., Electronic & Computer Engineering
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
2017 – 2018
M.Sc., Data Science and Machine Learning
University College London (UCL) · with Distinction
2013 – 2017
B.Sc., Computer Science
University of Nottingham · First-class Honours