Zhuofan Josh Ying

I'm a first-year PhD student in the Visual Inference Lab at Columbia University, supervised by Prof. Nikolaus Kriegeskorte. Previously, I received my B.A. in Computer Science and Philosophy from UNC Chapel Hill. Before that, I briefly pursued a B.S. in Physcis at USTC.

I'm generally interested in Computational Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, and AI Safety. Throughout my undergrad, I had the privilege to work with Prof. Elias Issa, Prof. Mohit Bansal, Prof. Jia Liu, and Prof. Gabriel Kreiman.

Research

	Adaptive Contextual Perception: How to Generalize to New Backgrounds and Ambiguous Objects Zhuofan Ying, Peter Hase, Mohit Bansal NeurIPS 2023 paper / code / bibtex
	VisFIS: Visual Feature Importance Supervision with Right-for-the-Right-Reason Objectives Zhuofan Ying, Peter Hase, Mohit Bansal NeurIPS 2022 paper / code / bibtex
	Can deep learning recognize subtle human activities? Vincent Jacquot, Zhuofan Ying, Gabriel Kreiman CVPR 2020 paper / code / bibtex

Experience

Columbia University, Issa Lab	2022 May - 2023 Jun	Supervised by Prof. Elias Issa
UNC Chapel Hill, MURGe-Lab	2021 Aug - 2023 Jun	Supervised by Prof. Mohit Bansal
Tsinghua University, Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (THBI)	2020 Nov - 2021 Apr	Supervised by Prof. Jia Liu
Tencent, Lightspeed & Quantum Studio	2020 May - 2020 Oct	Supervised by Dr. Runze Zhang
Harvard Medical School, Kreiman Lab	2019 Jan - 2019 Jul	Supervised by Prof. Gabriel Kreiman
iFlytek, AI Service Department	2018 Apr - 2018 Aug	Supervised by Dr. Xiaowei Fang and Dr. Yu Di