Siwei Yang

Siwei Yang

Ph.D. in Computer Science

UC Santa Cruz

Biography

The fight itself towards the summits suffices to fill a heart of man.

Siwei Yang is a first-year Ph.D. student at UCSC supervised by Prof. Cihang Xie.

He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He was an research assistant supervised by Prof. Yin Wang at Tongji University. After graduation, he has worked as a visiting research assistant at MMLab@HKUST under the supervision of Prof. Dan Xu and a research summer intern at CCVL@JHU under the supervision of Prof. Alan Yuille and Prof. Hang Zhao.

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Interests
  • Semantic/Instance Segmentation
  • Multi-task Learning
  • Multi-modal Vision
  • Category Discovery
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2023 - Present

    UC Santa Cruz

  • B.Eng. in Computer Science, 2017 - 2021

    Tongji University

News

  • 03/2023: Will join VLAA Lab@UCSC as a PhD student this year.

  • 11/27/2022: Got arrested on-site for protesting in Shanghai, reached the pinnacle of my Chinese citizenship.

  • 11/2022: One paper is accepted by AAAI 2023.

  • 10/2022: One paper is accepted by BMVC 2022 as Oral.

  • 04/2022: We are organizing the 1st OOD-CV workshop at ECCV 2022.

  • 06/2022: Will join CCVL@JHU as a research summer intern supervised by Prof. Alan Yuille and Prof. Hang Zhao.

  • 05/2021: Will join MMLab@HKUST as a visiting RA supervised by Prof. Dan Xu this summer.

Publications

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(2024). AQA-Bench: An Interactive Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs' Sequential Reasoning Ability. In submission to ICML 2024.

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(2022). AsyInst: Asymmetric Affinity with DepthGrad and Color for Box-Supervised Instance Segmentation. Preprint.

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(2022). Contrastive Multi-Task Dense Prediction. AAAI 2023.

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(2022). XCon: Learning with Experts for Fine-grained Category Discovery . BMVC 2022 Oral.

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Awards & Honors

Best Undergraduate in NeurIPSW2020 SpaceNet7 Multi-Temporal Urban Development Challenge
No.8 out of 39 teams in CVPRW2020 Agriculture-Vision Challenge Track
No.27 out of 134 teams in CCF Multi-race Face Recognition Challenge
Third price at Tongji University Programming Contest
Second prize at National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Research Summer Intern
Jul 2020 – Dec 2021 Baltimore, MD
Worked on Weakly-Supervised Instance Segmentation supervised by Prof. Alan Yuille and Prof. Hang Zhao.
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Jun 2020 – Jul 2021 Hongkong
Worked on Multi-Task Dense Prediction supervised by Prof. Dan Xu.
 
 
 
 
 
Research Intern
Jun 2020 – Jun 2021 Beijing
Internship at Base Detection Dept, Megvii Research.
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Tongji University
Jun 2020 – Jul 2021 Shanghai
Worked on Semantic Segmentation supervised by Prof. Yin Wang.