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 skill for machines to achieve super-human capability is to understand and predict the world’s dynamics through various modalities. Currently, I am a member at the PALM Lab directed by Chen Sun, working on vision-language models and video generation. I am also extending my interest to the applications of vision-language models and video generative models on robotic planning.

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, 2026
    • ICML 2025
    • ICCV 2025 (outstanding reviewer)
  • Journal Reviewer:
    • TMLR
  • Teaching Assistant: