Research Group
Current students, alumni, and undergraduate researchers working across multimodal AI, computer vision, efficient learning, and application-driven research.
Ph.D. Students
Andong Deng
Video Understanding
Zonglin Lyu
Image and Video Generation
Yancheng Zhang
3D Computer Vision
Yuanhao Zou
Video Understanding · Multimodal LLMs
Patrick Kwon
Human Pose/Mesh Reconstruction · Diffusion Models
Wei Li
Video Understanding · Agentic AI
Sixun Dong
Video Understanding · Agentic AI
Research for Undergraduate Students
Programs:
- CRCV REU Program
- Senior Design Project
Publications by undergraduate students:
Momal Ijaz, Renato Diaz, Chen Chen, "Multi-modal Transformer for Nurse Activity Recognition"
The Fifth International Workshop on Computer Vision for Physiological Measurement (CVPM), in conjunction with CVPR 2022
PaperEthan Frakes, Umar Khalid, Chen Chen, "Efficient and consistent zero-shot video generation with diffusion models"
Real-Time Image Processing and Deep Learning 2024. Vol. 13034. SPIE, 2024
PaperPh.D. Alumni
Dissertation: Robust 3D Perception Under Limited Supervision and Sparse Sensing
Current: Research Engineer at Intuitive
WebsiteDr. Ming Li
December 2026
Dr. Md Kowsher
December 2026
Dissertation: From Information Structure to Efficient Adaptation: Principled Foundations for Pretrained Models
Current: Research Scientist at Meta
WebsiteDefense PresentationDr. Guangyu Sun
May 2026
Dissertation: Federated Learning in the Era of Foundation Models
Current: Research Scientist at Meta
WebsiteDefense PresentationDr. Qucheng Peng
May 2026
Dissertation: Unsupervised Transfer Learning and its Applications in Human Pose Estimation
Current: Research Scientist at Roblox
WebsiteDefense PresentationDr. Wenhan Wu
December 2025
Co-advised with Dr. Aidong Lu at UNCC
Dissertation: Human Action Recognition from Skeleton Data
Current: Assistant Professor at Yunnan-Malaya Institute (School of Engineering), Yunnan University
WebsiteDr. Umar Khalid
December 2024
Dissertation: Effective and Efficient Use of Diffusion Models for Editing in Computer Vision
Current: Research Scientist at Axon AI
WebsiteDr. Matias Mendieta
August 2024
Dissertation: Efficient and Effective Deep Learning Methods for Computer Vision in Centralized and Distributed Applications
Current: Research Scientist, Apple Inc.
WebsiteDr. Ce Zheng
December 2023
Dissertation: Reconstructing 3D Humans from Visual Data
Current: Assistant Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
WebsiteDefense PresentationDr. Taojiannan Yang
August 2023
Dissertation: Towards Efficient and Effective Representation Learning for Image and Video Understanding
Current: Research Scientist, AWS AI Lab, CA
WebsiteDefense PresentationDr. Sijie Zhu
December 2022
Dissertation: Toward Real-World Cross-View Image Geo-Localization
Current: Research Scientist, Bytedance AI Lab, CA
WebsiteDefense PresentationMaster's Alumni
Zhaoning Wang
May 2024
Master in Computer Vision
WebsiteChanglin Li
December 2020
Master's in Computer Vision
UNCC
Thesis: Object Detection in Aerial Imagery
Sumanta Bhattacharyya
December 2019
Master's in Computer Vision
UNCC
Thesis: Efficient Unsupervised Monocular Depth Estimation Using Attention Guided Generative Adversarial Network
Talal Alatiah
May 2020
Master's in Computer Vision
UNCC
Thesis: Recognizing Exercises and Counting Repetitions in Real Time