Tianyi Xiong (熊天翼)
Hi! I am Tianyi Xiong, a Ph.D. student at University of Maryland, College Park working with Heng Huang. My research interests lie in computer vision and multimodal foundation models, particularly in developing strong critic and reasoning capabilities, improving multimodal alignment, and advancing RL-based post-training methods.
I am actively seeking research internship opportunities for Summer 2026. Feel free to contact me if you believe I would be a good fit!
[02/2025] LLaVA-Critic got accepted by CVPR 2025.
[09/2024] 🚀 Released LLaVA-Critic, the first open-source LMM as a general evaluator for assessing model performance across diverse multimodal scenarios.
[09/2024] Event3DGS got accepted by CoRL 2024.
[06/2024] Joined Bytedance as a research intern with Chunyuan Li.
[08/2023] Started my Ph.D. at UMD.
[07/2023] MasQCLIP got accepted by ICCV 2023.
Education
- B.Eng. in Computer Science, Tsinghua University, 2019 - 2023 (with honor)
- Minoring in Statistics, 2020 - 2023
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, 2023 - Present
Selected Honors & Awards
- Second Award, 35th Chinese Physics Olympiad (Final) (2018)
- National Scholarship (2020)
- Outstanding Undergraduate, Tsinghua Computer Science Dept. (2023)
- Dean’s Fellowship, University of Maryland (2023-24)
Industry Experience
- NVIDIA Research (2025/02 - 2025/08)
- Mentor: Zhiding Yu, Guilin Liu and Yi Dong
- ByteDance Seed (2024/06 - 2024/11)
- Mentor: Chunyuan Li
- Microsoft Research Asia
- Mentor: Steve Lin and Zhirong Wu
