Tong Zhang, Ph.D.

About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher working in machine learning and computer vision at EPFL with Prof. Sabine Süsstrunk and Dr. Mathieu Salzmann. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Richard Hartley, Prof. Faith Porikli, Prof. Mehrtash Harandi, and Prof. Hongdong Li.  After submitting my thesis, I worked on a semantic geo-localization project along with some Ph.D. students at ANU. During my Ph.D. study, I received the Best Student Paper honorable mention at ACCV 2016 and the Paper Award Finalist at CVPR 2020.

Prior to that, I received a master's degree from New York University in 2014 and a bachelor's degree from Beihang University in 2011.

Currently, my focus lies in unifying representations across different modalities to enable comprehensive interpretation of deep learning models, thereby facilitating broader applications in fields like time-series prediction and generation.

IVRL is always taking highly motivated Ph.D. students, who receive fellowships from the computer science (IC) department. We also have limited positions for self-funded visiting students. 

Every summer, we take some excellent students from the Summer@EPFL program.  

Contact: 

Tong dot Zhang at  epfl dot ch

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Students:

Haoqi Wang, Ph.D. candidate at EPFL 2023.10 ~ now

Yitao Xu, Ph.D. candidate at EPFL 2022.05 ~ now

Chen Zhao,                                     Ph.D. candidate at EPFL 2023.05 ~ now

Yufan Ren, Ph.D. candidate at EPFL 2022.03 ~ now

Dongqing Wang, Ph.D. candidate at EPFL 2022.03 ~ now

Ehsan Pajouheshgar, Ph.D. candidate at EPFL 2021.01 ~ now

Congpei Qiu, Ph.D. candidate at XJTU  2024.05 ~ now (master student 2021.05 - 2024.05)

Yanhao Wu, Ph.D. candidate at XJTU 2023.05 ~ now (master student 2022.05 - 2023.05)

Baran Ozaydin, Ph.D. candidate at EPFL 2021.01 ~ 2024.06

Bahar Aydemir Ph.D. candidate at EPFL 2021.01 ~ 2024.06

Deblina Bhattacharjee         Ph.D. candidate at EPFL 2021.01 ~ 2022.09

Awards

2020 CVPR Paper Award Nominee 

2019 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad

2019 ICML Traveling Awards

2017 NeurIPS Traveling Awards

2017 CSIRO DATA61 Top-up scholarship

2016 ACCV Best Student Paper Honorable Mention

2015 ANU Postgraduate research scholarship and HDR fee Remission Merit Scholarship

2012-14 Graduate Center Merit-Based Scholarship of NYU

2010 Outstanding student of Beihang University

Professional Activity

I've been a committee member (reviewer) for various top-tier journals (TPAMI, TIP, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, TMLR), and conferences (CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ECCV, ICCV, AAAI, ACCV, and WACV).