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 External Ph.D. Fellowships (NSF GRFP, Google, Apple, NVIDIA, Adobe, IBM twice, Amazon twice, Qualcomm, and Snap), among many other honors
Five Best Paper Awards (NeuS 2025, CVPR 2025 AI4CC, ACM MM 2025 MFMSI, IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author 2024, LoG 2022) and Five Finalists / Runner-Ups / Honorable Mentions (NeurIPS 2026 LP4FM, ICML 2026 AI4Math, AAMAS 2026, MLSys 2025, VLDB 2024)
Six Competition Prizes at CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV
Alumni have gone on to become Ten Tenure-track Faculty Members and Twenty-Four Research Scientists in industry
Principal Investigator
Atlas Wang
Temple Foundation Endowed Associate Professor (Tenured)
(Now focused on training his next-generation super intelligence - see the photo!)
atlaswang@utexas.edu (quite responsive)
512-471-1866 (not responsive at all)
Meet The Team
Postdoctoral Researchers
Ph.D. Students
Tong Wang
(Fall 2022 - )
Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
Ph.D. Students/Postdocs (10 in Academia, 24 in Industry)
Ye Yuan (Ph.D)
❯Fall 2015 - Summer 2020 (with VITA: since Fall 2017)
Current: Research Scientist, ByteDance, Seattle
Guoliang Kang (Postdoc)
❯co-hosted with Prof. Philipp Krähenbühl, Mar - Oct 2021
Current: Full Professor, ECE@Beihang University
Wuyang Chen (Ph.D)
❯Fall 2019 - Summer 2023
Current: Assistant Professor, CS@Simon Fraser University, starting Fall 2024 after another year of postdoc at UC Berkeley
Tianlong Chen (Ph.D)
❯Fall 2019 - Summer 2023
Current: Assistant Professor, CS@UNC Chapel Hill, starting Fall 2024 after another year of postdoc at MIT/Harvard
Yan Han (Ph.D)
❯Fall 2017 - Summer 2023 (with VITA: since Fall 2021)
Current: Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI
Shiwei Liu (Postdoc)
❯Aug 2022 - Oct 2023
Current: Assistant Professor, MPI Intelligent Systems Tübingen, starting Spring 2025 after another year of Newton visiting fellowship at Oxford
Yifan Jiang (Ph.D)
❯Fall 2019 - Summer 2024
Current: Senior Research Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Lab
Scott Hoang (Ph.D)
❯Fall 2021 - Summer 2024* (degree frozen, as job offer is too good : -)
Current: Senior Research Scientist, Apple AIML
Yuning You (Ph.D)
❯co-advised with Dr. Yang Shen, Fall 2019 - Summer 2024
Current: Assistant Professor, CS@CUHK Shenzhen, starting Fall 2025 after another year of postdoc at Caltech
Ziwei Yang (Postdoc)
❯Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
Current: Assistant Professor, Medicine@The University of Hong Kong
Junyuan Hong (Postdoc)
❯Aug 2023 - Aug 2025
Current: Assistant Professor, ECE@National University of Singapore
Wes Robbins (Ph.D.)
❯Fall 2023 - Summer 2025* (degree frozen, as job offer is too good : -)
Current: Research Engineer, Clearview AI
Runjin Chen (Ph.D.)
❯Fall 2023 - Summer 2025*
(then converted to part-time Ph.D. - job offer too good : -)
Current: Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic
Yan Zheng (Ph.D.)
❯Fall 2019 - Spring 2026 (with VITA: since Spring 2024)
Current: Research Scientist, Unity AI
Greg Holste (Ph.D.)
❯Fall 2021 - Summer 2026
Current: Assistant Professor, Medicine@Cornell University
Long-Term Visitors
with VITA for 6 months or more
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Mads Toftrup, Ph.D student in CS at Aahus University, Denmark, Sep 2024 - Mar 2024
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Simone Angarano, Ph.D. student in ML at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, visiting VITA during Aug 2023 - May 2024
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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)
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Yee Yang Tee, Ph.D. student, EEE@Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, visiting VITA during Aug 2022 - Jan 2023 (now Co-Founder, inspections.ai, Singapore)
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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)
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Iago Breno Araujo, Ph.D. student, CS@University of São Paulo, Brazil, visiting VITA during Dec 2019 - May 2020 (now Data Scientist, FAPESP, Brazil)
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Shuai Yang, Ph.D. student, CS@Peking University, China, visiting VITA during Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 (now Assistant Professor, CS@Peking University)
Short-Term Interns
with VITA for 3 months or remotely - we now rarely take interns
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Jiajun Zhu, undergraduate, CS@ZJU, Summer 2024 [remote] (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)
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Saebyeol Shin, undergraduate, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea, Fall 2023 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@Cornell)
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Diganta Misra, M.S. student, MILA/University of Montréal, Canada, Summer 2023 [remote] (Next Move: ELLIS Ph.D. student, MPI-IS)
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Mukund Varma T, undergraduate, ME@IIT Madras, Summer 2022 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@UCSD)
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Xiaolong Luo, undergraduate, Statistics@USTC, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, Bioengineering@Harvard)
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Miao Lu, undergraduate, School of Gifted Young@USTC, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, MS&E@Stanford)
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Zhengyuan Li, undergraduate, CS@Tsinghua University, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@Purdue)
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Wenyan Cong, M.S. student, CSE@SJTU, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)
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Qiming Wu, undergraduate, EE@HUST, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: M.S. student, CS@UCSB)
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S P Sharan, undergraduate, ECE@NIT Trichy, Summer 2021 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@UT Austin)
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Zhenyu Zhang, M.S. student, EEIS@USTC, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)
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Zeyuan Chen, undergraduate, School of Gifted Young@USTC, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@UCSD)
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Tianxin Wei, undergraduate, School of Gifted Young@USTC, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@UIUC)
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Aaditya Singh, undergraduate, IIT Kanpur, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CS@Georgia Tech)
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Shreeshail Hingane, undergraduate, IIT Kanpur, Summer 2020 [remote] (Next Move: Research Fellow, Microsoft Research, Bangalore)
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Xuxi Chen, undergraduate, Statistics@USTC, Summer 2019 (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)
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Yue Wang, M.S. student, CS@Rice University, visitng VITA during Summer 2018 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@Rice)
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Yifan Jiang, undergraduate, EE@HUST, visitng VITA during Summer 2018 (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)
M.S. Students
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Nitin Bansal, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2017 - Dec 2018 (Next Move: Senior Deep Learning Engineer, MagicLeap)
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Jianghao Shen, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2017 - Dec 2018 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@North Carolina State University)
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Pengcheng Pi, ECE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2017 - Dec 2018 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@TAMU)
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Sheelabhadra Dey, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, CSE@TAMU)
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Nalin Dadhich, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Software Development Engineer, Nvidia)
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Anjali Chadha, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Software Development Engineer, Amazon Alexa AI)
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Pritish Uplavikar, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Research Engineer, Apple)
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Karthik Suresh, ECE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2018 - May 2019 (Next Move: Applied Machine Learning Scientist, Adobe)
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Prateek Shroff, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2019 - May 2020 (Next Move: Software Development Engineer, Amazon)
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Zhenhua He, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2019 - Aug 2020 (Next Move: Research Assistant, ECE@TAMU)
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Ting-Kuei Hu, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2018 - Dec 2020 (Next Move: Senior Deep Learning Engineer, Qualcomm Research)
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Yunhe Xue, ECE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2019 - Dec 2020 (Next Move: Research Engineer, ByteDance AI Lab)
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Sicheng Wang, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Aug 2017 - Dec 2020 (Next Move: Data Scientist, Microsoft)
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Scott Hoang, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2019 - May 2021 (Next Move: joining VITA as Ph.D. student)
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Rahul Sridhar, CSE@TAMU, M.S. student, Jan 2020 - May 2021 (Next Move: Computer Vision Engineer, Snap Inc.)
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Shixin Yu, ECE@UT Austin, M.S. student, Aug 2021 - Aug 2022 (Next Move: Ph.D. student, ECE@Cornell University)
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Everardo Olivares-Vargas, CSEM@UT Austin, M.S. student, Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
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Zehao Zhu, ECE@UT Austin, M.S. student, Aug 2023 - Aug 2024 (Next Move: Research Scientist, Waymo)