Yao Xiao

CS Ph.D. candidate @ UIUC

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About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Derek Hoiem.

My research interests mainly lie in computer vision, especially in:

  • Long-Form Video: Achieving maximum recall of related information using minimal memory storage.

  • Multimodal Learning: Aligning vision and language into cohesive multimodal representations.

  • Explainable AI: Revealing model perceptions of the world to enable a transparent latent space.

I'm always happy to collaborate on interesting projects, especially with self-motivated grad or undergrad students. If you're into my works or just want to chat, feel free to drop me an email! 🌟 😄

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Selected Works

TextRegion: Text-Aligned Region Tokens from Frozen Image-Text Models

Yao Xiao, Qiqian Fu, Heyi Tao, Yuqun Wu, Zhen Zhu, Derek Hoiem

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Blog

A space to share my thoughts and track my growth. I’ll keep it casual -- I’m a CS student, but this isn’t a technical blog.

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Co-organizer: UIUC Computer Vision External Speaker SeriesInterested speakers are welcome to reach out to register for upcoming sessions.

Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, WACV, IEEE Access.

Last Updated: 7/29/2025, 10:04:52 AM