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

Five Best Paper Awards (NeuS 2025, CVPR 2025 AI4CC, ACM MM 2025 MFMSI, IEEE SPS Young Author 2024, LoG 2022) and Four Finalists / Honorable Mentions (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-Two 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!)

[Professional Bio]

atlaswang@utexas.edu (quite responsive)

512-471-1866 (not responsive at all)

Meet The Team

Postdoctoral Researchers

Hezhen Hu

Ph.D., University of Science and Technology of China, 2023
(Fall 2023 - )

Sina Alemohammad

Ph.D., Rice University, 2025
(Summer 2025 - )

Jianing Zhu

Ph.D., Hong Kong Baptist University, 2025
(Fall 2025 - )

Ph.D. Students

Peihao Wang

(Fall 2021 - )

Tong Wang

(Fall 2022 - )

Seo Young Lee

(Fall 2023 - )

Junbo Li

(Fall 2024 - )

Yuehao Wang

(Fall 2024 - )

Kevin Wang

(Fall 2024 - )

Yeonju Ro

(Spring 2025 - )

Jiajun Zhu

(Fall 2025 - )

Jinghan Ke

(Fall 2025 - )

John Robertson

(Fall 2025 - )

Zhizhou Sha

(Fall 2025 - )

(Fall 2025 - )

(Fall 2026 - )

(Fall 2026 - )

(Fall 2026 - )

(Fall 2026 - )

Undergraduate Students

Rohan Siva

ECE@UT Austin,
Jan 2025 - present

Vincent Ha

ECE@UT Austin,
Jan 2026 - present

Alumni

Ph.D. Students/Postdocs (10 in Academia, 22 in Industry)

Ye Yuan (Ph.D)

Fall 2015 - Summer 2020 (with VITA: since Fall 2017)
Current: Research Scientist, ByteDance, Seattle

Zhenyu Wu (Ph.D)

Fall 2017 - Summer 2021
Current: Research Engineer, Waymo

Guoliang Kang (Postdoc)

co-hosted with Prof. Philipp Krähenbühl, Mar - Oct 2021
Current: Full Professor, ECE@Beihang University

Xiaohan Chen (Ph.D)

Fall 2017 - Summer 2022
Current: Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon

Junru Wu (Ph.D)

Spring 2018 - Summer 2023

Current: Research Engineer, Google Deepmind

Haotao Wang (Ph.D)

Fall 2018 - Summer 2023

Current: Research Scientist, Qualcomm AI Research

Ziyu Jiang (Ph.D)

Spring 2019 - Summer 2023

Current: Research Scientist, NEC Labs America

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

Jiayi Shen (Ph.D)

Spring 2020 - Summer 2023

Current: Applied Scientist, Amazon

Yan Han (Ph.D)

Fall 2017 - Summer 2023 (with VITA: since Fall 2021)

Current: Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI

Xinyu Gong (Ph.D)

Fall 2017 - Summer 2023

Current: Research Scientist, Adobe Firefly

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

Dejia Xu (Ph.D)

Spring 2022 - Spring 2025

Current: Research Scientist, Luma AI

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

Zhiwen Fan (Ph.D.)

Fall 2021 - Summer 2025

Current: Assistant Professor, ECE@Texas A&M University

Ajay Jaiswal (Ph.D.)

Fall 2021 - Summer 2025

Current: Research Scientist, Apple AIML

Wes Robbins (Ph.D.)

Fall 2023 - Summer 2025* (degree frozen, as job offer is too good : -)

Current: Research Engineer, Clearview AI

Xuxi Chen (Ph.D.)

Fall 2021 - Summer 2025

Current: Quantitative Researcher, XTX Markets

Zhangheng Li (Ph.D.)

Fall 2021 - Summer 2025

Current: Research Scientist, Zoom 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

Lanqing Guo (Postdoc)

Aug 2024 - Nov 2025

Current: Research Scientist, Google

Zhenyu Zhang (Ph.D.)

Fall 2022 - Spring 2026

Current: Member of Technical Staff, xAI

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

Neel P. Bhatt (Postdoc)

Aug 2023 - Aug 2026

Current: Assistant Professor, CS@UT Dallas

Ruisi Cai (Ph.D.)

Fall 2022 - Summer 2026

Current: Research Scientist, NVIDIA

Wenyan Cong (Ph.D.)

Fall 2022 - Summer 2026

Current: Research Scientist, NVIDIA

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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