Alex N. Wang

I’m a third year Ph.D. student in CILVR advised by Mengye Ren at NYU. I did my M.Sc. with Rich Zemel and B.A.Sc in Engineering Science at University of Toronto. I am supported by the NSERC PGS-D scholarship.

I’m interested in intelligent, video generation models. Through generations conditioned on prior frames, I aim to define and measure a notion of visual intelligence and reasoning.

My current research focuses on:

• Leveraging existing discriminative models and pretrained representations to improve the semantic content of generated videos
• Constructing a notion of visual reasoning by measuring generation semantics in response to (non-textual) changes in input context

Previously, my work focused on representation learning, for which I am interested in new evaluation methods utilizing generative (text or image) responses.

When not working, I like to:
host dinner parties, make pourover coffee, watch movies with friends and practice (olympic) weightlifting.

Feel free to reach to me at anw2067 [at] cims.nyu.edu