Our Team:

Ph.D.:

Junwei Zhou (Fall'25-now)
Ziyang Mai (Fall'25-now)
Yuyao Zhang (Fall'24-now)
Xinhang Liu (Fall'22-now; Co-supervision with Chi-Keung Tang at HKUST)

M.S.:

Yiwen Yan (Fall'25 - now)
Yuening Cai (Fall'25 - now)
Alexandar Huang-Menders (Fall'25 - now)
Thang Nguyen (Summar'24-Summar'25; Co-supervision with Peter Chin at Thayer SoE, Dartmouth)

Undergraduate:

Alexandar Huang-Menders (Fall'24 - Spring'25)
    Senior Thesis (High Honors): SmartAvatar: Text- and Image-Guided Human Avatar Generation with VLM AI Agents (arXiv)
Sonia Bendre (Fall'24 - Spring'25)
    Senior Thesis (Honors): Scalable Linear Attention for Video Diffusion with Positional Encoding Interpolation

Alumni/Former Advisees:

Lei Ke (Senior Research Scientist in Tencent AI, Seattle Lab)
Qi Fan (Assistant Professor at Nanjing University, China)
Yanan Sun (Researcher at Shanghai AI Lab, China)
Ho Kei (Rex) Cheng (Ph.D. candidate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Shangzhe Wu (Assistant Professor at University of Cambridge)
Hao-Shu Fang (Postdoc at MIT CSAIL)
Hyeokhyen Kwon (Assistant Professor at Emory University)
Gayoung Lee (Researcher at NAVER AI Lab, S.Korea)
Jinsun Park (Assistant Professor at Pusan National University, S.Korea)
Donghyeon Cho (Associate Professor at Hanyang University, S.Korea)
Tae-Hyun Oh (Associate Professor at KAIST, S.Korea)
Jaesik Park (Assistant Professor at Seoul National University, S.Korea)