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AI PhD Researcher · Software Engineering
Linqiang (Jackson) Guo
AI-driven mobile automation · LLM agents · Multimodal VLM post-training
Software Engineering PhD student at Concordia University and Graduate Student Researcher at Mila, building LLM-based agents that reason about state, recover from failure, and understand user interfaces. Former software engineer at Walmart Global Tech.
01 — News
Latest News
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Aug 2026
🏆 Our paper Learning to Adapt: Few-Shot Generalization of Mobile Agents to Unseen Applications received the Best Paper Award at the ECCV 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Digital Agents (MDA), with an invited Spotlight Talk.
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Aug 2026
Our paper StepReflect: Structured Reflection for Mobile GUI Agents was accepted to the ECCV 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Digital Agents (MDA) (Poster + Lightning Talk).
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Aug 2026
Our paper CoAdapt-GUI: Joint Workflow Context and Policy Adaptation for Unseen GUI Applications was accepted to the ECCV 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Digital Agents (MDA) (Poster + Lightning Talk).
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Aug 2026
Our paper Beyond the GUI Paradigm: Do Mobile Agents Need the Phone Screen? was accepted to the ECCV 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Digital Agents (MDA) (Poster).
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Aug 2026
Our paper Learning to Adapt: Few-Shot Generalization of Mobile Agents to Unseen Applications was accepted to the ECCV 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Digital Agents (MDA) (Poster + Lightning Talk).
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Jul 2026
Joined Mila — Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute as a Graduate Student Researcher, working on multimodal / GUI agents and RL-based post-training.
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Dec 2025
Our paper Agent SAMA: State Aware Mobile Assistant was accepted to AAAI 2026.
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2025
MAPLE was accepted to the COLM 2025 Workshop.
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2025
Guiwatcher was accepted to ICSE 2025.
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Jan 2025
Started as a Teaching Assistant at Concordia University.
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Jan 2024
Began my PhD and joined the SPEAR Lab in Montreal.
02 — About
Research at the intersection of AI and software systems.
My work focuses on intelligent mobile software systems — designing agents that combine large language models, vision-language pipelines, and finite-state reasoning to automate and test complex mobile applications, and to stay state-aware, robust, and recoverable when things go wrong. I'm also a Graduate Student Researcher at Mila — Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, working on RL-based post-training (GRPO, DPO) for multimodal GUI agents.
Before my PhD I built and maintained microservices for customer personalization and recommendation at Walmart Global Tech, integrating GenAI into search and tuning Milvus on Kubernetes. I hold an MS in ECE (AI track) from the University of Miami and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Missouri.
- 📍 Montreal, Canada
- 🎓 PhD @ Concordia University
- 🤖 LLM agents & mobile automation
- ✉️ linqg327@gmail.com
Education
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2024 — Present
PhD, Software Engineering
Concordia University · Montreal, CA
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2020 — 2022
MS, Electrical & Computer Engineering (AI track)
University of Miami · Miami, US
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2016 — 2019
BS, Electrical Engineering
University of Missouri Columbia · US
03 — Skills
Tools & Tech
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AI / ML Frameworks
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Backend & Platforms
04 — Publications
Selected Papers
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ECCV 2026 WS
Learning to Adapt: Few-Shot Generalization of Mobile Agents to Unseen Applications
🏆 Best Paper Award · ECCV 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Digital Agents (MDA) · Spotlight Talk + Poster
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ECCV 2026 WS
StepReflect: Structured Reflection for Mobile GUI Agents
ECCV 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Digital Agents (MDA) · Poster + Lightning Talk · arXiv
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ECCV 2026 WS
CoAdapt-GUI: Joint Workflow Context and Policy Adaptation for Unseen GUI Applications
ECCV 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Digital Agents (MDA) · Poster + Lightning Talk · arXiv
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ECCV 2026 WS
Beyond the GUI Paradigm: Do Mobile Agents Need the Phone Screen?
ECCV 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Digital Agents (MDA) · Poster · arXiv
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AAAI 2026
Agent SAMA: State Aware Mobile Assistant
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ICSE 2025
Guiwatcher: Automatically Detecting GUI Lags by Analyzing Mobile Application Screencasts
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COLM 2025 WS
MAPLE: A Mobile Assistant with Persistent Finite State Machines for Recovery Reasoning
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CMIG
Registration on DCE-MRI Images via Multi-Domain Image-to-Image Translation
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics (IF 7.422)
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Under Review
Screencast-Based Analysis of User-Perceived GUI Responsiveness
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Under Review
PopSweeper: Automatically Detecting and Resolving App-Blocking Pop-Ups to Assist Automated Mobile GUI Testing
05 — Experience
Where I've Worked
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Jul 2026 — Present
Graduate Student Researcher · Mila — Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Research on multimodal / GUI agents.
- RL-based post-training for agentic models (GRPO, DPO).
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Jan 2024 — Present
Research Assistant · SPEAR Lab
Software Performance, Engineering, Analysis & Reliability Lab · Montreal, Canada
- Research intelligent mobile software systems with a focus on AI-driven automation and UI understanding.
- Develop methods to improve agent reasoning, state awareness, and robustness in complex mobile environments.
- Co-authored multiple papers at AAAI, ICSE, TOSEM, and COLM.
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Jan 2025 — Jan 2026
Teaching Assistant · Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
- Assist teaching Software Engineering: software design, UML modeling, testing, project management.
- Lead weekly tutorials and support students via office hours and online discussions.
- Guide students through core SE concepts and GitHub-based project workflows.
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Aug 2022 — Dec 2023
Software Developer · Walmart Global Tech
Sunnyvale, California, USA · in contract
- Built and maintained microservices for customer personalization, data ingestion, and recommendation using Java, Spring, and cloud tools.
- Optimized performance of the Milvus vector database on Kubernetes.
- Integrated GenAI workflows into search, improving query understanding and relevance ranking.
- Deployed scalable API endpoints and streamlined CI/CD with data science and platform teams.
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Jan 2020 — Feb 2020
Software Engineer Intern · CPECC Gulf Region
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Developed RESTful web services with Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Maven, and Hibernate.
- Tested features with JUnit and Mockito; used Git/GitHub for version control and review.
06 — Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
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2026
🏆 Best Paper Award — ECCV 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Digital Agents (MDA), for Learning to Adapt.
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2023
Concordia University International Tuition Award of Excellence
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2023
Concordia University Split Graduate Fellowship
07 — Off the Clock
Beyond Work
Life with
Pocky
Coffee, long walks, and my dog Pocky — a look at the moments away from the keyboard.
Step inside ↗
08 — Contact
Let's Connect
Interested in collaborating on AI agents, mobile automation, or software-engineering research? I'd love to hear from you.
Email me ✉️