Biography
Austin Wang is a Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University. His research interests include computer vision and natural language, including scene understanding and generation, and applications of AI to health.
Interests
- Computer Vision (2D and 3D)
- Natural Language Processing
- Scene Understanding and Generation
- Health and Biology
Education
PhD Candidate in Computer Science, 2023-present
Simon Fraser University
MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS in Computer Science and Engineering, 2020
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Recent Publications
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(2025).
ViGiL3D: A Linguistically Diverse Dataset for 3D Visual Grounding.
Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025).
(2025).
SceneEval: Evaluating semantic coherence in text-conditioned 3D indoor scene synthesis.
ArXiv.
(2024).
SceneMotifCoder: Example-driven Visual Program Learning for Generating 3D Object Arrangements.
Proceedings of the International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV 2025).
(2024).
BIOSCAN-5M: A Multimodal Dataset for Insect Biodiversity.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024).
Experience
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Developed image- and video-based computer vision models for endoscopy data toward detection of colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Skills
Technical
Python
C++
SQL
Pytorch
Version Control (Git)
AWS
Agile
Hobbies
Volleyball
FIRST Robotics
Cooking
Music
Biblical Studies
Projects
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Building a demo for animating openable part detection on RGB images
using ML to tackle problems of biodiversity
Contact
Please reach out here if you would like to connect or learn more about my past experience and projects.