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Join us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Prospective PhD students<\/strong>: apply to the NC State ECE graduate program<\/a> and name Dr. Tianfu Wu in your application. NC State students<\/strong> interested in a research project are welcome to email Dr. Wu with a CV and a short note on which of our research areas<\/a> interests you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Principal investigator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tianfu (Matt) Wu<\/strong>
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, NC State University; affiliated with the Visual Narrative Initiative
interpretable visual modeling, computing and learning<\/em>
Google Scholar<\/a> \u00b7 twu19@ncsu.edu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Current members<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Chinmay Savadikar<\/strong>
PhD Student
multi-faceted efficiency in fine-tuning LLMs and resilient lifelong learning<\/em>
Homepage<\/a> \u00b7 csavadi@ncsu.edu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Zhendong Liu<\/strong>
PhD Candidate
audio-visual perception and segmentation<\/em>
Google Scholar<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Gabriela Goldner<\/strong>
PhD Student
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Vidit Ghuliani<\/strong>
PhD Student
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Alumni<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Rui Xue<\/strong>
PhD 2026
worked on self-supervised and multimodal graph learning<\/em>
Homepage<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Thomas Paniagua<\/strong>
PhD 2025
worked on ordered top-K adversarial attack and defense<\/em>
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Jianghao Shen<\/strong>
PhD 2024
worked on few-\/single-shot generative modeling and monocular 3D modeling<\/em>
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Ryan Grainger<\/strong>
MS 2024
worked on patch-to-cluster based vision Transformer models<\/em>
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Xianpeng Liu<\/strong>
PhD 2023
worked on 3D object detection<\/em>
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Wei Sun<\/strong>
PhD 2021
worked on controllable image synthesis<\/em>
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Nan Xue<\/strong>
Visiting PhD Student, 2018\u20132020
worked on line segment detection and wireframe parsing<\/em>
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Zekun Zhang<\/strong>
MS 2021
worked on adversarial distillation for ordered top-K attacks<\/em>
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Xilai Li<\/strong>
PhD 2020
worked on And-Or grammar networks and lifelong learning<\/em>
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Liang Dong<\/strong>
PhD 2019
worked on human pose estimation<\/em>
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Yiheng Yang<\/strong>
MS 2019
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Hardi Desai<\/strong>
MS 2019
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Arshita Gupta<\/strong>
MS 2019
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Hrishikesh Garud<\/strong>
MS 2019
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Sameera Lanka<\/strong>
MS 2018
LinkedIn<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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