Yapeng Tian
Scholar

Yapeng Tian

Google Scholar ID: lxCqdpoAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas
Computer VisionComputer AuditionMultimodal LearningImage Restoration
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
13,258
 
H-index
33
 
i10-index
69
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
82
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Awards include AAAI New Faculty Highlights, Cisco Faculty Research Award, and Amazon Research Award. Papers accepted at top conferences such as AAAI 2026, TMLR, NeurIPS 2025, IJCV, EMNLP 2025 Findings, ACM MM 2025, UIST 2025, BMVC 2025, ICCV 2025, ACL 2025. Served as Area Chair for multiple top conferences including ACL ARR, AAAI/CVPR/ICLR 2026.
Research Experience
  • Currently an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at The University of Texas at Dallas, leading the Computer Vision and Multimodal Computing (CVMC) Lab. Research highlights include: audio-visual scene understanding, audio-visual scene generation, AI for accessibility and healthcare, image and video processing.
Education
  • PhD from the University of Rochester, advised by Chenliang Xu; Master's degree from Tsinghua University, working with Wenming Yang; B.E. degree from Xidian University. Visiting student at SIAT, advised by Yu Qiao; internships at Adobe Research with Dingzeyu Li and Meta with Alexander Richard.
Background
  • Research interests include computer vision, computer audition, and machine learning. Committed to solving core problems in computer vision, computer audition, and machine learning, and applying the developed learning approaches to broad AI applications such as multisensory perception, computational photography, AR/VR, accessibility, and healthcare.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests include building computer vision algorithms to improve image and video quality in both automated and creative ways.