Tianyi Xiong (熊天翼)
Hi, I am Tianyi Xiong, a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park.
My research focuses on computer vision and multimodal foundation models, especially strong critic and reasoning capabilities, multimodal alignment, and RL-based post-training methods.
If you are interested in collaborations or would like to learn more about my work, feel free to contact me! 😄
News
- 04/2026 Multi-Crit is selected as a Highlight paper at CVPR 2026.
- 02/2026 Multi-Crit and PhyCritic got accepted by CVPR 2026.
- 02/2025 LLaVA-Critic got accepted by CVPR 2025.
- 02/2025 Joined NVIDIA LPR as a research intern with Zhiding Yu, Guilin Liu and Yi Dong.
- 09/2024 Released LLaVA-Critic, the first open-source LMM as a general evaluator for 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
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park
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 - 2024
Industry Experience
NVIDIA Research
ByteDance Seed
Microsoft Research Asia