Wenhu Chen

Welcome to the Text and Image GEnerative Research (TIGER) Lab!

Mission

Our primary goal is to advance GenAI (Generative Artificial Intelligence) and make it more applicable to society. We believe in the transformative potential of AI and strive to develop innovative solutions that can revolutionize the way we create digitalized content. Our research focuses on a variety of topics within the realm of GenAI, including but not limited to:

Text generation
Image and Video Generation
Multi-modal Retrieval and Grounding
Improving Reasoning and Planning in GenAI
Controllability in GenAI
Evaluation in GenAI

Publication

Please see Publication for more details.

Github and Huggingface

Our lab focus on open science and will release our code, model and daaset at Github and Huggingface.

Graduate Students

Existing students

PHD (Spring 2023 -): Cong Wei (BS/MS: UofT)
PHD (Fall 2023 -): Weiming Ren (BS: ANU, MS: UofT)
PHD (Fall 2023 -): Dongfu Jiang (BS: ZJU)
PHD (Fall 2024 -): Max Ku (BS: HK PolyU, MS: Waterloo)
PhD (Spring 2025 -): Yubo Wang (BS: ZJU, MS: UC Davis)
MMATH (Fall 2024 -): Yuansheng Ni (BS: ZJU)
MMATH (Fall 2024 -): Zhiheng Lyu (BS: HKU)
MMATH (Fall 2024 -): Benjamin Schneider (BS: University of Manitoba)

Former students

MMATH (Fall 2022-Winter 2024): Tianle Li (BS: HKUST)
MMATH (Fall 2023-Spring 2024): Max Ku (BS: HK PolyU)

Interns

Current interns

Haozhe Wang (PhD: HKUST)
Chi Ruan (BS: Ottawa)
Keming Wu (PhD: THU)
Qixing Xu (BS: THU)
Shenzhe Zhu (BS: UofT)
Weixu Zhang (PhD: McGill)
Tao Yu (PhD: CAS)

Former interns

Year 2022: Xichen Pan (BS: SJTU) -> NYU PhD
Year 2022: Alex Zhuang (BS: UWaterloo) -> xAI
Year 2023: Haonan Chen (BS: UWaterloo) -> Waterloo MMATH
Year 2023: Wenwen Zhuang (BS: CSU) -> CAS Master
Year 2023: Yuansheng Ni (BS: ZJU) -> Waterloo MMATH
Year 2023: Aaran Arulraj (BS: UWaterloo) -> ?
Year 2023: Yishan Li (BS: THU) -> Modelbest
Year 2024: Xuan He (BS: THU) -> UIUC PhD
Year 2024: Yicheng Wang (BS: HKUST) -> ?
Year 2024: Quy Duc Do (BS: UWaterloo) -> ?
Year 2024: Jiacheng Chen (BS: ZJU, PhD: SFU) -> ?
Year 2024: Wyett Zeng (BS: UWaterloo) -> Harvard MS
Year 2024: Ziyan Jiang (BS: NJU, MS: JHU) -> UCSB PhD
Year 2025: Jialin Yang (B: UWaterloo) -> Darthmouth PhD
Year 2024: Zheyang Xioing (BS: Rice, MS: UW-Madison) -> UW-Madison PhD
Year 2025: Muze Su (BS: UTSC) -> ?
Year 2024: Mingyi Su (BS: UWaterloo) -> ?
Year 2025: Samin Mahdizadeh (BS: Tehran, MS: Tehran) -> ?
Year 2025: Yiming Jia (MS: UofT) -> ?
Year 2025: Wentao Ma (MS: UofT) -> ?