Xinran Tang
Xinran Tang

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering

University of Central Florida

About Me

I am currently in my first year of the Ph.D. program at the University of Central Florida, under the supervision of Prof. George Atia.

I earned my Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from New York University (NYU), where I had the opportunity to work as a research assistant in the AI4CE LAB, focusing on visual room rearrangement with Wenyu Han and mentored by Prof. Chen Feng. I also led the VIP self-drive team, working on the embodied AI platform and competing in a maze exploration challenge in both simulation and real-world environments. Prior to that, I conducted research in the MMVC lab under Prof. Yi Fang, exploring reinforcement learning for robotic grasping.

Before pursuing my Master’s, I completed my Bachelor’s degree with honors in Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, where I researched multi-camera gaze estimation for long distances under the supervision of Prof. Ying Weng.

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Interests
  • Transfer Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Robot Perception
  • Mobile Navigation
  • Mobile Manipulation
Education

  • PhD in Computer Engineering

    University of Central Florida

  • M.S. in Computer Engineering

    New York University

  • B.S. (Hons) in Computer Science

    University of Nottingham

📚 My Research
Recognizing that the ultimate aim of all research is to apply it in real-world scenarios, enhancing the interaction between humans and machines is interesting and challenging. My areas of research interest are in computer vision, transfer learning, and high performance machine learning. I aspire to transform these algorithms into practical engineering solutions that aid in human construction. Specifically, my research focuses on: (1) Robust Reinforcement learning from human feedback, (2) mobile navigaion, and (3) Large Language/Vision Models
📰 News

07/2024: I start my PhD research under the supervision of Prof. George Atia at UCF.

05/2024: I have submitted my master thesis and graduated from New York University.

01/2024: I begin my position as the software team leader for the NYU VIP Self-Drive project.

09/2023: I start my master thesis research under the supervision of Prof. Chen Feng in the AI4CE LAB.

🏆 Awards & Honors
  • UCF Graduate Artificial Intelligence Initiative Fellowship 2024 - 2025
  • NYU Graduate School of Engineering Scholarship 2022 - 2024
  • The Appreciate Presenter at the 2021 4th International Conference on Computing and BigData Nov. 2021
  • The Meritorious Winner of 2021 Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling Feb. 2021
  • The Successful Participant Award of Asia and Pacific Mathematical Contest in Modeling Nov. 2020
  • The Second prize of the 10th National MathorCup university mathematical modeling challenge Jun. 2020