Welcome to Tieyuan Chenโs Homepage
๐ About Me
Hello! I am Tieyuan Chen, a third-year Ph.D. student (2023โpresent) 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) (2019โ2023), ranking 1 / 29.
I am also a Research Intern (RI) at Beijing Zhongguancun Academy and Alibaba Ant Group.
๐ฌ Research Interests
My research focuses on:
- ๐ฅ Video Understanding & Video Reasoning
- ๐ง Large Language Models (LLMs) & Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs)
- ๐ Causal Reasoning and Event-level Modeling
๐ซ Feel free to reach out via email:
tieyuanchen@sjtu.edu.cn
๐ฅ 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 1โฐ
- Sichuan University Hundred Excellent Student (2022) โ Top 2โฐ
- Sichuan Province Outstanding Graduate (2023) โ Top 3%
๐ First-Author Publications
๐ฃ NeurIPS 2024 (Spotlight, Top 2.4%)
MECD: Unlocking Multi-Event Causal Discovery in Video Reasoning

Tieyuan Chen, Huabin Liu, Tianyao He, Yihang Chen, Chaofan Gan, Xiao Ma, Cheng Zhong, Yang Zhang, Yingxue Wang, Hui Lin, Weiyao Lin
๐ฃ ICLR 2026
DND: Boosting Large Language Models with Dynamic Nested Depth

Tieyuan Chen, Xiaodong Chen, Haoxing Chen, Zhenzhong Lan, Weiyao Lin, Jianguo Li
๐ฃ IEEE TPAMI
MECD+: Unlocking Event-Level Causal Graph Discovery for Video Reasoning

Tieyuan Chen, Huabin Liu, Yi Wang, Yihang Chen, Tianyao He, Chaofan Gan, Huanyu He, Weiyao Lin
๐ฃ IEEE T-CSVT
CSTA: Spatial-Temporal Causal Adaptive Learning for Exemplar-Free Video Class-Incremental Learning

Tieyuan Chen, Huabin Liu, Chern Hong Lim, John See, Xing Gao, Junhui Hou, Weiyao Lin
๐ 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)
