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the Tianyi Lab — current Ph.D. students, alumni, mentored students and collaborators.
Prospective students and interns. I work with Ph.D. students, visiting students and interns on LLM reasoning, multimodal and agentic models, data-centric learning and human–AI alignment. If you would like to work with me, please email your CV, a short note on which of our papers you would build on, and links to any code or writing of yours. I read every message but can only reply to those that fit the group’s current directions.
Current Ph.D. students
Ph.D. alumni
Graduated from UMD.
M.S. alumni
Graduated from UMD.
Mentored students
Ph.D. students at other groups whose thesis work I closely mentored.
Aniruddh Bansal
Shuangtong Li
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Collaborating students
- Xiyang Wu (UMD)
- Laura Yu Zheng (UMD)
- Yizhe Cheng (UMD)
- Yihan Bian (UMD)
- Hengguang Zhou (UCLA)
- Chunxu Zhang (UTS)
- Zhiwei Li (UTS)
- Wensi Tang (UTS)
- Qiang He (Ruhr University)
- Yucheng Yang (TU/e)
- Jieyu Zhang (UW)
Code, data and models
Our releases live at github.com/tianyi-lab and huggingface.co/umd-zhou-lab.