Austin T. Wang

Austin T. Wang

PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University

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

(2024). SceneMotifCoder: Example-driven Visual Program Learning for Generating 3D Object Arrangements. ArXiv.

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(2024). BIOSCAN-5M: A Multimodal Dataset for Insect Biodiversity. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.

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(2024). BIOSCAN-CLIP: Bridging Vision and Genomics for Biodiversity Monitoring at Scale. ArXiv.

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(2023). BarcodeBERT: Transformers for Biodiversity Analysis. Proceedings of the NeurIPS Workshop on Self-Supervised Learning: Theory and Practice.

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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Iterative Health
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
May 2019 – August 2023 Cambridge, Massachusetts
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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OPDMulti Demo
Building a demo for animating openable part detection on RGB images
OPDMulti Demo
BIOSCAN
using ML to tackle problems of biodiversity
BIOSCAN

Contact

Please reach out here if you would like to connect or learn more about my past experience and projects.