Xingyi Yang

🚀👨‍💻🥁💡Hi, my name is Xingyi Yang (Adam)💡🥁👨‍💻🚀.

I will be joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in 2025 Fall as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI). I am also honored to have been selected as the prestigious Presidential Young Scholars at PolyU.

Currently, I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate at NUS, advised by Prof.Xinchao Wang. I also spent wonderful times as a visiting PhD at University of Oxford, advised by Prof.Philip Torr.

My research lies at the intersection of generative AI and multi-modal learning, with a strong emphasis on their computational efficiency. Our mission is to build intelligent systems that robustly understand, generate, and interact with physical worlds. We hope to achieve this with minimum cost, by tapping and repurposing the rich capabilities of large foundation models through modular, compositional, and post-training techniques.

💥 Hiring! 💥

I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students, postdocs, and research assistants for Spring/Fall 2026. If you are interested in working with me, feel free to reach out via email with your resume.

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