People
Join us
Prospective PhD students: apply to the NC State ECE graduate program and name Dr. Tianfu Wu in your application. NC State students interested in a research project are welcome to email Dr. Wu with a CV and a short note on which of our research areas interests you.
Principal investigator

Tianfu (Matt) Wu
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, NC State University; affiliated with the Visual Narrative Initiative
interpretable visual modeling, computing and learning
Google Scholar · twu19@ncsu.edu
Current members

PhD Student
multi-faceted efficiency in fine-tuning LLMs and resilient lifelong learning
Homepage · csavadi@ncsu.edu

PhD Candidate
audio-visual perception and segmentation
Google Scholar

PhD Student

PhD Student
Alumni
PhD 2026
worked on self-supervised and multimodal graph learning
Homepage

PhD 2025
worked on ordered top-K adversarial attack and defense

PhD 2024
worked on few-/single-shot generative modeling and monocular 3D modeling

MS 2024
worked on patch-to-cluster based vision Transformer models

PhD 2023
worked on 3D object detection

PhD 2021
worked on controllable image synthesis

Visiting PhD Student, 2018–2020
worked on line segment detection and wireframe parsing

MS 2021
worked on adversarial distillation for ordered top-K attacks
