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 are machine learning and computer vision, especially exploring the emerging capacity of vision foundation models and multi-modality.

Previously, I obtained my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science with a minor in Statistics at Tsinghua University, where I was fortunate to work with Zhuowen Tu (at UCSD remotely) and Songhai Zhang. I previously interned at ByteDance (with Chunyuan Li) and MSRA (with Steve Lin and Zhirong Wu).

News

[02/2025] LLaVA-Critic got accepted by CVPR 2025.

[01/2025] Joined NVIDIA LDR as a research intern with Zhiding Yu.

[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)
Excellent Comprehensive Scholarship of Tsinghua University (2021)
Outstanding Undergraduate, Tsinghua Computer Science Dept. (2023)