Welcome to my homepage! I’m Lang Lin, a first-year PhD student supervised by professor Mingyuan Zhou in the statistics track at IROM, University of Texas at Austin. Previously, I earned my bachelor’s degree at Nanjing University (NJU), majoring in computer science within the national elite program.

I had the privilege of working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, under the supervision of Prof. Yu-Xiong Wang. I was also an active member of NJU ACM/ICPC team.

My research interests lie broadly in generative models and large language models, with a particular focus on diffusion models and multi-modal generation.

Publications

(* denotes equal contribution)

• GLUS: Global-Local Reasoning Unified into A Single Large Language Model for Video Segmentation
  Lang Lin*, Xueyang Yu*, Ziqi Pang*, Yu-Xiong Wang
  The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025
  [Project Page]
  We propose a simple yet effective MLLMs for language-instructed video segmentation. It emphasizes global-local video understanding and achieves SOTA performance on multiple benchmarks.

Education

University of Texas at Austin
2025.09 - 2030.07 (Expected)

Ph.D. in Statistics

Nanjing University
2021.09 - 2025.06

B.S. in Computer Science, National Elite Program
GPA: 91.6 / 100.0 (4.58/5.00)
Ranking: 2/229

Awards

• Dean’s Fellowship at UT Austin, 2025
• National Elite Scholarship (Top 0.2% nationwide, the highest honor for undergraduates in China), 2023
• International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), Silver Medal, 2023
• China Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC), Silver Medal, 2022, 2023
• Fundamental Discipline Special Scholarship at NJU (Ranked 1/147) 2022, 2024

Services

• Teaching Assistant, STA 235 Data Science for Business Applications at UT Austin, 25 Fall
• Teaching Assistant, Problem Solving at NJU, 23 Fall, 24 Spring, 24 Fall
• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computer System at NJU, 23 Fall