Zitian Tang

Ph.D. Student, Brown University
Email: zitian_tang [at] brown.edu
Nick Name: CWBC
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Research Interests

Multimodal Machine Learning & Robotic Planning

I believe a necessary ability for machines to achieve human-level understanding about the world is to process various modalities simultaneously. Currently, I am a member at the PALM Lab directed by Chen Sun, working on vision-language models. Recently, I have been extending my interest toward applying vision-language models and video generation models to robotics. I believe that the broad world knowledge embedded in foundation models can serve as powerful priors, enabling robots to perform more complex and generalizable planning tasks.

Previously, I worked on multimodal machine learning under the supervision of Hang Zhao at MARS Lab.

Sports Analytics

In the past, I also did research in sports analytics. I spent my last undergraduate year working with Shaoliang Zhang in deep learning methods for team sports analytics. It is my belief that advanced deep learning methods will help improve team sports tactics in a way hard for human to discover.


Education

  • 2023 - present, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Brown University.

  • 2019 - 2023, Undergraduate at Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (Yao Class), Tsinghua University.


Experience


Award

  • Gold Award (Rank 16) in the National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) 2018
  • Gold Award (Rank 4) in the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO) 2018

Service

  • Conference Reviewer:
    • CVPR 2024, 2025
    • ECCV 2024 (outstanding reviewer)
    • NeurIPS 2024 (top reviewer), 2025
    • ICML 2025
    • ICCV 2025 (outstanding reviewer)
  • Journal Reviewer:
    • TMLR