About

Greetings! My name is Weitai Kang (康伟泰).

I am a second year Ph.D. in Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology. My focus of research area is Computer Vision (CV), especially Multimodal Learning:

2D & 3D Visual Grounding
Multimodal Large Language Modal
Transformer explainability

If you are interested in research collaboration about Multimodal Large Language Model, feel free to contact me at wkang11@hawk.iit.edu.

Linkedin / Google Scholar / CV

Education

Illinois Institute of Technology

PhD in Computer Science, 2022 - 2027 (expected)
Graduate Research Assistant at CVM Lab, Advisor: Prof. Yan Yan

Sun Yat-sen University

BS in Mathematics–Information and Computing Science, 2018 - 2022
Previously majored in marine science, 2017 - 2018
Outstanding student scholarship (for four years)

Publications

Junyi Wu, Weitai Kang, Hao Tang, Yuan Hong, Yan Yan, “On the Faithfulness of Vision Transformer Explanations”, CVPR 2024.
Junyi Wu, Bin Duan, Weitai Kang, Hao Tang, Yan Yan, “Token Transformation Matters: Towards Faithful Post-hoc Explanation for Vision Transformer”, CVPR 2024.

Internship

Tencent, Machine Learning Engineer Intern, 2021.10 - 2022.07
SenseTime, Research Intern, 2021.07 - 2021.09

Projects

Image Super Resolution, Human Cyber Physical Intelligence Integration Lab, 2021.01 - 2021.02
Theory Analysis of Cosmic Gravity Based on Convolutional Neural Network, Sun Yat-Sen University 2020 College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program (National Level), 2020.06 - 2020.12
The application of machine learning in asset allocation, 2020.05 - 2020.10
Research on default risk of P2P online loan based on machine learning, 2018.10 - 2019.05

Competition

Mathematics competition of Chinese College Student, Awarded Third Prize, twice in 2019 and 2020 respectively
China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Model, Awarded Third Prize, 2019
Mathematical Contest In Modeling, Awarded Successful Participant, 2019

Club

Zhuhai Mathematics Association, Head of Planning Department, 2018.07 - 2019.06

Office: Room 001, Stuart Building, 10 W 31st St, Chicago, IL 60616

Updated: 04/2024