Wenhu Chen

Welcome to the Text and Image GEnerative Research (TIGER) Lab at the University of Waterloo. Our lab is dedicated to enabling more controllable and faithful generation of both text and images.

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

PHD: Weiming Ren (BS: ANU, MS: UofT)
PHD: Dongfu Jiang (BS: ZJU)
PHD: Cong Wei (BS/MS: UofT)
PHD: Yubo Wang (BS: ZJU, MS: UC Davis)
MMATH: Max Ku (BS: HK PolyU)

Incoming (waiting for Visa)

PHD: Ge Zhang (MS: UMich)

Graduated

MMATH: Tianle Li (BS: HKUST)

Interns

Current

Xuan He (BS: THU)
Ziyan Jiang (BS: NJU, MS: JHU)
Yicheng Wang (BS: HKUST)

Alex Zhuang (BS@UWaterloo)
Haonan Chen (BS@UWaterloo)
Yubo Wang (BS: ZJU, MS: UC Davis)
Yuansheng Ni (BS: ZJU)
Yishan Li (BS: THU)
Wenwen Zhuang (BS: SCU, MS: CAIS)