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About Us

The PI feels most proud of being surrounded by some of the world's most brilliant students. His Ph.D. students have won:​

Eleven Prestigious Ph.D. Fellowships (NSF GRFP, Google, Apple, NVIDIA, Adobe, IBM twice, Amazon twice, Qualcomm, and Snap), among many other honors

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Five Best Paper Awards (NeuS 2025, CVPR 2025 AI4CC, ACM MM 2025 MFMSI, IEEE SPS Young Author 2024, LoG 2022) and Three Finalists / Honorable Mentions (AAMAS 2026, MLSys 2025, VLDB 2024)

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Six Competition Prizes at CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV

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Alumni have gone on to become Nine Tenure-track Faculty Members and Twenty-One Research Scientists in industry

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Principal Investigator

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Atlas Wang

Temple Foundation Endowed Associate Professor (Tenured)

(Now focused on training his next-generation super intelligence - see the photo!)

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[Professional Bio]

atlaswang@utexas.edu (quite responsive)

512-471-1866 (not responsive at all)

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Meet The Team

Postdoctoral Researchers

Ph.D. Students

Undergraduate Students

Alumni

Ph.D. Students/Postdocs (9 in Academia, 21 in Industry)

 with VITA for 6 months or more​

  • Mads Toftrup, Ph.D student in CS at Aahus University, Denmark, Sep 2024 - Mar 2024

  • Simone Angarano, Ph.D. student in ML at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, visiting VITA during Aug 2023 - May 2024

  • Lu Yin, Ph.D. student, CS@Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands, visiting VITA during Aug 2022 - Jul 2023 (now Assistant Professor, CS@ University of Surrey, UK)

  • Yee Yang Tee, Ph.D. student, EEE@Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, visiting VITA during Aug 2022 - Jan 2023 (now Co-Founder, inspections.ai, Singapore)

  • Artur André Oiveira, Ph.D. student, CS@University of São Paulo, Brazil, visiting VITA during Dec 2021 - May 2022 (now Postdoctoral Researcher, CS@University of São Paulo)

  • Iago Breno Araujo, Ph.D. student, CS@University of São Paulo, Brazil, visiting VITA during Dec 2019 - May 2020 (now Data Scientist, FAPESP, Brazil)

  • Shuai Yang, Ph.D. student, CS@Peking University, China, visiting VITA during Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 (now Assistant Professor, CS@Peking University)

 with VITA for 3 months or remotely - we now rarely take interns

  • Jiajun Zhu, undergraduate, CS@ZJU, Summer 2024 [remote] (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)

  • Saebyeol Shin, undergraduate, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, Fall 2023 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@Cornell)

  • Diganta Misra, M.S. student, MILA/University of Montréal, Canada, Summer 2023 [remote] (Next Move: ELLIS Ph.D. student, MPI-IS)

  • Mukund Varma T, undergraduate, ME@IIT Madras, Summer 2022 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@UCSD)

  • Xiaolong Luo, undergraduate, Statistics@USTC, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, Bioengineering@Harvard)

  • Miao Lu, undergraduate, School of Gifted Young@USTC, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, MS&E@Stanford)

  • Zhengyuan Li, undergraduate, CS@Tsinghua University, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@Purdue)

  • Wenyan Cong, M.S. student, CSE@SJTU, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)

  • Qiming Wu, undergraduate, EE@HUST, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: M.S. student, CS@UCSB)

  • S P Sharan, undergraduate, ECE@NIT Trichy, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@UT Austin)

  • Zhenyu Zhang, M.S. student, EEIS@USTC, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)

  • Zeyuan Chen, undergraduate, School of Gifted Young@USTC, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@UCSD)

  • Tianxin Wei, undergraduate, School of Gifted Young@USTC, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@UIUC)

  • Aaditya Singh, undergraduate, IIT Kanpur, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@Georgia Tech)

  • Shreeshail Hingane, undergraduate, IIT Kanpur, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: Research Fellow, Microsoft Research, Bangalore)

  • Xuxi Chen, undergraduate, Statistics@USTC, Summer 2019 (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)

  • Yue Wang, M.S. student, CS@Rice University, visitng VITA during Summer 2018 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@Rice)

  • Yifan Jiang, undergraduate, EE@HUST, visitng VITA during Summer 2018 (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)

  • Nitin Bansal, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2017 - Dec 2018 (Next Move: Senior Deep Learning Engineer, MagicLeap)

  • Jianghao Shen, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2017 - Dec 2018 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@North Carolina State University)

  • Pengcheng Pi, ECE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2017 - Dec 2018 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@TAMU)

  • Sheelabhadra Dey, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CSE@TAMU)

  • Nalin Dadhich, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Software Development Engineer, Nvidia)

  • Anjali Chadha, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Software Development Engineer, Amazon Alexa AI)

  • Pritish Uplavikar, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Research Engineer, Apple)

  • Karthik Suresh, ECE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Applied Machine Learning Scientist, Adobe)

  • Prateek Shroff, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2019 - May 2020 (Next Move: Software Development Engineer, Amazon)

  • Zhenhua He, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2019 - Aug 2020 (Next Move: Research Assistant, ECE@TAMU)

  • Ting-Kuei Hu, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2018 - Dec 2020 (Next Move: Senior Deep Learning Engineer, Qualcomm Research)

  • Yunhe Xue, ECE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2019 - Dec 2020 (Next Move: Research Engineer, ByteDance AI Lab)

  • Sicheng Wang, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2017 - Dec 2020 (Next Move: Data Scientist, Microsoft)

  • Scott Hoang, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2019 - May 2021 (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)

  • Rahul Sridhar, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2020 - May 2021 (Next Move: Computer Vision Engineer, Snap Inc.)

  • Shixin Yu, ECE@UT Austin, M.S. student, Aug 2021 - Aug 2022 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@Cornell University)

  • Everardo Olivares-Vargas, CSEM@UT Austin, M.S. student, Aug 2021 - Dec 2022

  • Zehao Zhu, ECE@UT Austin, M.S. student, Aug 2023 - Aug 2024 (Next Move: Research Scientist, Waymo)

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