people

Vicente
Vicente Ordóñez Román

Research Lead

Vicente has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has held visiting research positions at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Adobe Research, and Amazon Alexa AI. He has led the vision, language and learning lab since the Fall 2016.
Jefferson Hernandez

PhD Student

Jefferson obtained his undergraduate engineering degree in Industrial Engineering from ESPOL in Ecuador and has been studying how to improve the visual representations learned by deep neural networks using self-supervised training from videos.
Catherine (Ruozhen) He

PhD Student

Catherine obtained her undergraduate degree from City University of Hong Kong and has been pursuing work on training models for visual grounding using data augmentation with Large Language Models.
Moayed Haji Ali

PhD Student

Moayed obtained his undergraduate degree from Koç University in Turkey and is currently focused on generative AI models based on conditional diffusion models to improve their capabilities with minimal effort by exploiting their properties.
Jaywon Koo

PhD Student

Jaywon obtained her undergraduate degree at Ewha Womans University in South Korea and her MS degree at Columbia University. She has been working on multimodality, depth estimation and neuro-symbolic hybrid models for visual question answering and beyond.
Zilin Xiao

PhD Student

Zilin has a bachelor degree from Sichuan University. He has been working on Named Entity Recognition and Visual Entity Recognition by leveraging Large Multimodal Models with constrained decoding. He has had internships at Sensetime Research, MEGVII and Microsoft.
Micah Kepe

Undergraduate Student

Micah is a Computer Science student studying at Rice University. His interests include machine learning, fullstack web development, and data science. He is currently working on building tools for curating large scale datasets for machine learning.
Zach Kepe

Undergraduate Student

Zach is a junior at Rice University studying computer science, as well as data science. His primary interests are databases, machine learning, backend development, and artificial intelligence. He is working on developing a better and cleaner large scale multimodal dataset.

phd alumni

Tianlu Wang

PhD Dissertation: Measuring and Mitigating Biases in Vision and Language Models, 2021 (University of Virginia)

Next: Research Scientist at Facebook AI Research.

Fuwen Tan

PhD Dissertation: Learning Local Representations of Images and Text, 2021 (University of Virginia)

Next: Research Scientist at Samsung AI - Cambridge, UK.

Ziyan Yang

PhD Dissertation: Vision and Language: Information Integration and Transformation, 2023 (Rice University)

Next: Research Scientist at Tiktok - San Jose, CA.

Paola Cascante-Bonilla

PhD Dissertation: More from Less: Learning with Limited Annotated Data in Vision and Language, 2024 (Rice University)

Next: Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University (SUNY).

alumni

Ayush Sachdeva (Undergraduate/MS Student) - 2023-2024 -- next SW Eng at Sambanova.
Alex Biyanov (Undergraduate Student) - Spring 2024.
Hao-Jen (Daniel) Wang (MS Student) - Spring, Fall 2023 -- next Tiktok.
Aman Shrivastava (PhD Student) - 2019-2022 -- transferred to Tom Fletcher's group at UVA.
Lucas Resck (Visiting Student - Fundaçao Gétulio Vargas, Brasil) - Fall 2022 -- next PhD Student at the University of Cambridge.
Veronica Flores (Visiting Student - Santa Clara University) - Summer 2022.
Eleanor Lin (Visiting Student - Columbia University) - Summer 2022 -- next PhD Student at the University of Michigan.
Jaspreet Ranjit (MS Student) - Spring 2021 - Spring 2022 -- next PhD Student at the University of Southern California.
Letao Wang (Undergraduate Student) - Spring 2021 - Spring 2022.
Hannah Lei (MS Student) - Fall 2021 -- next Uber.
Nikash Sethi (Undergrad Student) - 2020-2021 -- next Scale.AI
Katherine Weinschenk (Undergrad Student) - 2020-2021
Leticia Pinto-Alva (Visiting MS Student) - 2019-2020 -- next PhD student at the University of Southern California.
Fuxiao Liu (MS Student) - 2019-2020 -- next PhD student at the University of Maryland College Park.
Lindsey Shavers (Undergrad + MS Student) - 2017-2020 -- next MS in Data Science at UVA
Jeffrey Tan (Undergrad Student) - 2018-2020.
Menjia Luo (Undergrad Student) - 2018-2019 -- next Microsoft.
Brandon Peck (Undergrad Student) - Summer 2019 -- next Microsoft.
Shanmin Pang (Visiting Scholar -- Assistant Professor, Xian Jiaotong University) - 2017-2018.
Xuwang Yin (Research Assistant) -- 2017-2018 -- next PhD student CpE at UVA.
Fengyang Zhang (MS Student) -- next Facebook.
Arun Kannan (Undergrad Capstone) -- 2017-2018 -- next MS in Math at UVA.
Anudeep Konda (MS Student - Thesis) -- 2017-2018 -- next VoxelCloud.
KS Sivaraman (MS Student) -- 2017 -- next Microsoft.
Abhimanyu Banerjee (MS Student) -- 2017-2018 -- next Cvent Inc.
Vijay Edupuganti (Undergrad Capstone) - 2017-2018. -- next OpenDoor Inc.
Rosangel Garcia (Visiting Student - Le Moyne College) - Summer 2017, 2018 -- next IBM.
Jonathan Rodriguez (Visiting Student - Tufts University) - Summer 2018.
Shijia Wang (Undergrad Student) - 2017 -- next MS Georgia Tech.
Nova Zhang (Undergrad Student) - Spring 2017.
Ian K. Torres (Visiting Student - UMass Amherst) - Summer 2017.
Divya Bhaskhara (Undergrad Capstone) - 2016 -- next MS at Johns Hopkins University.

current and recent collaborators

(non-exhaustive)
Willi Menapace, Research Scientist, Snap Inc.
Aliaksandr Siarohin, Research Scientist, Snap Inc.
Mahdi Kalayeh, Research Scientist, Netflix.
Guha Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor, Rice University.
Alex Berg, Associate Professor, UC Irvine.
Ruben Villegas, Research Scientist, Google Brain.
Rogerio Feris, Principal Scientist and Manager, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.
Leonid Karlinsky, Principal Scientist and Manager, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.
Kushal Kafle, Research Scientist, Adobe Research.
Scott Cohen, Principal Scientist, Adobe Research.
Zhe Lin, Senior Principal Scientist, Adobe Research.
Zhihong Ding, Senior Research Engineer, Adobe Research.
Mark Yatskar, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania.
Ramprasaath Selvaraju, Research Scientist, Salesforce Research.
Nikhil Naik, Senior Manager of Research, Salesforce Research.
Jiangbo Yuan, Research Scientist, eBay Research.
Baishakhi Ray, Associate Professor, Columbia University.
Yuchi Tian, PhD Student, Columbia University.
Erik Learned-Miller, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Joy Buolamwini, Founder, Algorithmic Justice League.
Jamie Morgenstern, Assistant Professor, University of Washington.
Sonia Baee, PhD Student, University of Virginia.
Erfan Pakdamanian, PhD Student, University of Virginia.
Jack Lanchantin, PhD Student, University of Virginia.
Arshdeep Sekhon, PhD Student, University of Virginia.
Yanjun Qi, Associate Professor, University of Virginia.
Franck Dernoncourt, Research Scientist, Adobe Research.