Hi there 👋，I am a second-year CS PhD student at the University of Notre Dame. I am fortunate to have Professor Xiangliang Zhang as my advisor and grateful for the guidance of Professor Yapeng Tian.

Before joining Notre Dame, I earned my B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University and an M.S. in Research from Columbia University. I also interned at Intel’s OpenCV organization, working with Dmitry Matveev.

My research interests include multimodal learning, focusing on leveraging multimodal data (e.g., language, vision, and audio) to interact with the physical world.

🔥 News

• 2024.11:  🎉🎉 One paper accepted by WSDM Demo Track 2025.
• 2024.10: Our new paper about Multimodal modal Machine Unlearning is now available on arxiv! Reading list here.
• 2024.09:  🎉🎉 One first-author paper accepted by EMNLP 2024.
• 2024.05: I have passed qualify exam.
• 2024.05:  🎉🎉 One paper accepted by ACL 2024.
• 2023.10:  🎉🎉 One paper accepted by EMNLP 2023.
• 2023.06: I started open source project woking at Intel OpenCV.org.

📝 Publications

• Arxiv 2024 CLIPErase: Efficient Unlearning of Visual-Textual Associations in CLIP, Tianyu Yang, Lisen Dai, Zheyuan Liu, Xiangqi Wang, Meng Jiang, Yapeng Tian, Xiangliang Zhang.
• EMNLP 2024 SaSR-Net: Source-Aware Semantic Representation Network for Enhancing Audio-Visual Question Answer, Tianyu Yang, Yiyang Nan, Lisen Dai, Zhenwen Liang, Tianya Peng and Xiangliang Zhang.
• WSDM 2025 WildlifeLookup: A Chatbot Facilitating Wildlife Management with Accessible Data and Insights, Xiangqi Wang, Tianyu Yang,Jason Rohr, Brett Scheffers, Nitesh Chawla and Xiangliang Zhang.
• ACL 2024 SceMQA: A Scientific College Entrance Level Multimodal Question Answering Benchmark, Zhenwen Liang, Kehan Guo, Gang Liu, Taicheng Guo, Yujun Zhou, Tianyu Yang, Jiajun Jiao, Renjie Pi, Jipeng Zhang, and Xiangliang Zhang.
• EMNLP 2023 UniMath: A Foundational and Multimodal Mathematical Reasoner, Zhenwen Liang, Tianyu Yang, Jipeng Zhang, and Xiangliang Zhang.

📖 Educations

• 2023.09 – Present, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
  PhD in Computer Science
• 2019.09 – 2021.05, Columbia University, New York, NY
  Research MS in Electrical Engineering
• 2017.09 – 2021.05, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China
  BS in Automation

💬 Personal Service

• 2025, Reviewer at NAACL
• 2024, Reviewer at EMNLP
• 2024, Reviewer at ACL
• 2024, Reviewer at ICDM
• 2024, Undergraduate Mentor at the Department of Computer Science, Notre Dame
• 2023, Teaching Assistant for Advanced Algorithms at the Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
• 2023, Teaching Assistant for Reinforcement Learning at the Department of Computer Science, Columbia University

💻 WORK EXPERIENCE

• 2023.05 – 2023.08, Intel & OpenCV.org (Google Summer of Code)
  Mentor: Dmitry Matveev