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๐Ÿ‘‹ About Me

Hello! I am Tieyuan Chen, a third-year Ph.D. student (2023โ€“present) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering (SEIEE), advised by Prof. Weiyao Lin. To date, during my Ph.D. studies, I have published four first-author papers, including top-tier venues such as T-PAMI, ICLR, NeurIPS, and T-CSVT.

Previously, I received my B.Eng. degree from Sichuan University, College of Electronics and Information Engineering (CEIE) (2019โ€“2023), ranking 1 / 29.

I am also a Research Intern (RI) at Beijing Zhongguancun Academy and Alibaba Ant Group.


๐Ÿ”ฌ Research Interests

My research focuses on:

  • ๐ŸŽฅ Video Understanding & Video Reasoning
  • ๐Ÿง  Large Language Models (LLMs) & Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs)
  • ๐Ÿ”— Causal Reasoning and Event-level Modeling

๐Ÿ“ซ Feel free to reach out via email:
tieyuanchen@sjtu.edu.cn


๐Ÿฅ‡ Honors and Awards

  • China National Scholarship (2021) โ€” Top 1%
  • China National Scholarship (2022) โ€” Top 1%
  • Sichuan University Comprehensive Special Scholarship (2022) โ€” Top 1โ€ฐ
  • Sichuan University Hundred Excellent Student (2022) โ€” Top 2โ€ฐ
  • Sichuan Province Outstanding Graduate (2023) โ€” Top 3%

๐Ÿ“ƒ First-Author Publications


๐ŸŸฃ NeurIPS 2024 (Spotlight, Top 2.4%)

MECD: Unlocking Multi-Event Causal Discovery in Video Reasoning

MECD

Tieyuan Chen, Huabin Liu, Tianyao He, Yihang Chen, Chaofan Gan, Xiao Ma, Cheng Zhong, Yang Zhang, Yingxue Wang, Hui Lin, Weiyao Lin

GitHub arXiv


๐ŸŸฃ ICLR 2026

DND: Boosting Large Language Models with Dynamic Nested Depth

DND

Tieyuan Chen, Xiaodong Chen, Haoxing Chen, Zhenzhong Lan, Weiyao Lin, Jianguo Li

arXiv


๐ŸŸฃ IEEE TPAMI

MECD+: Unlocking Event-Level Causal Graph Discovery for Video Reasoning

MECD+

Tieyuan Chen, Huabin Liu, Yi Wang, Yihang Chen, Tianyao He, Chaofan Gan, Huanyu He, Weiyao Lin

GitHub arXiv


๐ŸŸฃ IEEE T-CSVT

CSTA: Spatial-Temporal Causal Adaptive Learning for Exemplar-Free Video Class-Incremental Learning

CSTA

Tieyuan Chen, Huabin Liu, Chern Hong Lim, John See, Xing Gao, Junhui Hou, Weiyao Lin

GitHub arXiv


๐Ÿ“Š Academic Service

Reviewer

Conferences (2026)

  • ICLR 2026
  • CVPR 2026
  • ECCV 2026
  • ICML 2026
  • ICME 2026

Conferences (2025)

  • ICLR 2025
  • CVPR 2025
  • ICCV 2025
  • NeurIPS 2025
  • AAAI 2025
  • ICME 2025
  • PRCV 2025

Journals

  • Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI)
  • Signal Processing: Image Communication (SPIC)