Hello, my name is Tianxiang Chen, and I am currently a final-year Ph.D student at School of Cyber Space and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), under the supervision of Prof. Nenghai Yu. Prior to this, I obtained my Bachelor’s degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Yingcai Honors College. My current research interests lie in the areas of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), Large Language Models (LLMs), Agent and Medical AI.

I have published several first-author and corresponding-author papers in top-tier journals and conferences, including TMI, TCSVT, TGRS, Nature Scientific Data, AAAI, EMNLP, IJCAI, and ACM MM. During my PhD, I had the opportunity to complete a long-term internship at Alibaba Cloud, where I was jointly supervised by Jieping Ye (VP of Alibaba, IEEE Fellow) and Le Lu (IEEE Fellow, MICCAI Board Member). This experience provided me with valuable insights into the practical applications of AI and deepened my understanding of the industry’s needs. I also have close cooporations with researchers and doctors from Oxford, Alan Turing Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ruijin Hospital Luwan Branch, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Ant Group.

Looking for Research Cooporations. If You are Interested, Drop Me an E-mail!

Selected Publications

[AAAI 2026 Oral] Flora: Effortless Context Construction to Arbitrary Length and Scale, Tianxiang Chen, Zhentao Tan, Xiaofan Bo, Yue Wu, Tao Gong, Qi Chu, Jieping Ye.

[IEEE TMI 2025] Zig-rir: Zigzag rwkv-in-rwkv for efficient medical image segmentation, Tianxiang Chen, Xudong Zhou, Zhentao Tan, Yue Wu, Ziyang Wang, Zi Ye, Tao Gong, Qi Chu, Nenghai Yu, Le Lu. [IF=9.8]

[EMNLP Findings 2024] Llama SLayer 8B: Shallow Layers Hold the Key to Knowledge Injection, Tianxiang Chen, Zhentao Tan, Tao Gong, Yue Wu, Qi Chu, Bin Liu, Jieping Ye, Nenghai Yu.

[IEEE TGRS 2024] Mim-istd: Mamba-in-mamba for efficient infrared small target detection, Tianxiang Chen, Zi Ye, Zhentao Tan, Tao Gong, Yue Wu, Qi Chu, Bin Liu, Nenghai Yu, Jieping Ye. [IF=8.6] [ESI Highly Cited]

[IEEE TGRS 2024] FreqODEs: Frequency neural ODE networks for infrared small target detection, Tianxiang Chen, Zi Ye. [IF=8.6]

[IEEE TGRS 2024] Feature preservation and shape cues assist infrared small target detection, Tianxiang Chen, Zhentao Tan, Tao Gong, Qi Chu, Bin Liu, Nenghai Yu. [IF=8.6]

[Nature Scientific Data 2024] A Comprehensive Video Dataset for Surgical Laparoscopic Action Analysis, Zi Ye, Ru Zhou, Zili Deng, Dan Wang, Ying Zhu, Xiaoli Jin, Lijun Zhang, Tianxiang Chen, Hanwei Zhang, Mingliang Wang

[AAAI 2024] Tci-former: Thermal conduction-inspired transformer for infrared small target detection, Tianxiang Chen, Zhentao Tan, Qi Chu, Yue Wu, Bin Liu, Nenghai Yu.

[ACM MM 2024] Bsbp-rwkv: Background suppression with boundary preservation for efficient medical image segmentation, Xudong Zhou, Tianxiang Chen *.

[IEEE TCSVT 2024] Bootstrapping audio-visual video segmentation by strengthening audio cues, Tianxiang Chen, Zhentao Tan, Tao Gong, Qi Chu, Yue Wu, Bin Liu, Nenghai Yu, Le Lu, Jieping Ye. [IF=11.6]

[Applied Sciences 2024] A survey on visual mamba, Hanwei Zhang, Ying Zhu, Dan Wang, Lijun Zhang, Tianxiang Chen, Ziyang Wang, Zi Ye. [ESI Highly Sited]

[IJCAI 2023] Tci-former: Thermal conduction-inspired transformer for infrared small target detection, Tianxiang Chen, Zhentao Tan, Qi Chu, Yue Wu, Bin Liu, Nenghai Yu.

Education

1. 2023.09 - Present: Ph.D in School of Cyber Space and Technology, USTC
2. 2021.09 - 2023.08: M.S. in School of Cyber Space and Technology, USTC
3. 2017.09 - 2021.06: B.S. in Yingcai Honors College & Liren Class, UESTC (2/4900)

Awards

1. National Scholarship, USTC, 2025
2. National Scholarship, USTC, 2023
3. Huawei Scholarship, USTC, 2024
4. Chinese Youth Delegate, UN Climate Change Conference, Bonn, 2019
5. National College English Contest, First Prize (top 0.6%), 2019

Internship

1. 2023.10 - 2025.11: Alibaba Cloud & Alibaba DAMO Academy, Research Intern on LLMs/MLLMs
2. 2021.12 - 2022.5: SenseTime Research, Research Intern on Medical AI
3. 2021.07 - 2021.12: Orient Securieties Research, Assistant Financial Analyst (Quantitative Investment & CS)

Reviewer Services

1. Journals: IEEE TIP, IEEE TMI, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TGRS, Pattern Recognition
2. Conferences: ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, ACM MM, IJCAI, MICCAI