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General Information

Full Name Tianyu Chen
Languages English, Chinese

Industry Experience

  • 02/2025 – Now
    Research Scientist Intern
    Microsoft Research | Gen AI Post-train
    • Mentors: Zhendong Wang, Lijuan Wang
    • Developed an object-centric vision-language model (VLM) agent that automates fine-grained, multi-turn image-editing evaluation, eliminating reliance on human annotators for benchmark construction. The project received media coverage in well-known Chinese outlets and is showcased on the project website.
    • Led large language model (LLM) post-training research on mathematical reasoning and LLM-as-a-judge alignment, including recipe design for autoregressive and diffusion-based language models.

Education

  • 2023-now
    PhD in Statistics & Data Sciences
    University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
    • GPAs 4.0/4.0
  • 2021-2023
    Master in Statistics
    University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
    • GPAs 3.97/4.0
  • 2017-2021
    Bachelor in Statistics
    Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    • GPAs 3.7/4.0

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Sleeping, Tennis, Climbing etc.