Ziao Yang 杨子敖 | Brandeis University

About Me

I am a first year PhD student in Computer Science at Brandeis University, advised by Prof. Hongfu Liu. Before joining Brandeis, I worked at Y Combinator China and crafted strategic presentation and financing materials for Dr. Qi Lu.

Previously, I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in 2022. During my undergraduate period I also worked as a research intern at International Digital Economy Academy (founded by Dr. Harry Shum), supervised by Dr. Jiaxing Zhang. Before that, I spent two years working as a research assistant in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University & China Meteorological Administrstion, coadvised by Dr. Qifeng Lin and Prof. Qing Ling.

You can learn more details about my research through my Curriculum Vitae (updated in Nov. 2023).

Research Interests

Data-Centric AI
Foundation Models
Spatiotemporal Modeling
Meta-Learning

News

[May. 2023] I assisted Dr. Qi Lu to craft his presentation “The new paradigm brought about by Foundation models.”
[Apr. 2023] I returned to Chengdu No.7 High School (Prof. Fei-Fei li and Xiaochuan Wang are alumni) and gave a talk about ChatGPT.
[Nov. 2022] My project in IDEA, GTS Qiankunding won the FewCLUE championship .
[Sep. 2022] The official implementation of TCTN received 80 stars in github.
[Aug. 2022] My team achieved top 1% in the Tianchi Big Data Competition: AI Helps Strong Convection Weather Forecast. Thanks to my teammates Jiacheng Wu (CUHK) and Jiahui Hu (NUIST).

Papers

PTCT: Patches with 3D-Temporal Convolutional Transformer Network for Precipitation Nowcasting
Ziao Yang, Xiangrui Yang, Qifeng Lin
[PDF]
TCTN: A 3D-Temporal Convolutional Transformer Network for Spatiotemporal Predictive Learning
Ziao Yang, Xiangrui Yang, Qifeng Lin
[PDF] [Code]

Projects

Official Implementation of TCTN (Starred 87 in Mar. 2023)
Fengshengbang-LM (Starred 1.6k in Mar. 2023)

Awards

Tianchi Big Data Competition: AI Helps Strong Convection Weather Forecast (Top 1%).
The national level of the College student innovation competition of Sun Yat-Sen University (Top 1).
Champion of FewCLUE: GTS Qiankunding (Top 1 from November 18 till now).

Personal

I am also interested in crypto.

Contact

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Email: ziaoyang@brandeis.edu