Yatian Pang (庞雅天)

Greetings! My name is Yatian Pang. I'm a final-year PhD student at the National University of Singapore supervised by Prof. Tay E. H. Francis and working closely with Prof. Li Yuan from PKU. I'm currently a research intern at Alibaba's Qwen team working with Shuai Bai and Dr. Hang Zhang.

My research interests are multi-modal understanding and generation, as well as unified models. My long-term goal is to develop general-purpose AI systems that seamlessly understand and generate content across diverse modalities.

I am ACTIVELY looking for a full-time position starting in 2026. Feel free to send me an email at yatian_pang@u.nus.edu if you're interested.

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Core contributor to video understanding development for Qwen3-VL, especially with a focus on long video and streaming video understanding. Achieved state-of-the-art results on various benchmarks.

Unified framework for image understanding, generation, and editing following GPT-4o. Solved critical challenge of connecting frozen VLMs with diffusion generators via novel semantic encoder.

One of the earliest open-source efforts to reproduce Sora. Contributed to high-resolution, long-duration video generation architecture and open-sourced high quality video data .

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