Cihang Xie
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering · University of California, Santa Cruz
Quick answer: Cihang Xie is Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz. Cihang Xie shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ I am co-leading the Vision · Learning · Assured Autonomy (VLAA) Lab with Professor Yuyin Zhou. Our lab has multiple openings for summer interns and visiting students with flexible starting times. If you are interested in these opportunities, please complete this form.
Research interests
My research interest lies at the intersection of computer vision and machine learning, with the goal of building human-level computer vision systems. I am particularly interested in securing model performance under distribution shifts, and developing deep representation learning with minimal supervision.
Selected publications (since 2023)
[2024] What If We Recaption Billions of Web Images with LLaMA-3? (arxiv)
[2024] Rejuvenating image-GPT as Strong Visual Representation Learners (ICML)
[2024] How Many Unicorns Are in This Image? A Safety Evaluation Benchmark for Vision LLMs (ECCV)
[2024] A Semantic Space is Worth 256 Language Descriptions: Make Stronger Segmentation Models with Descriptive Properties (ECCV)
[2024] From Pixels to Objects: A Hierarchical Approach for Part and Object Segmentation Using Local and Global Aggregation (ECCV)
[2024] Autoregressive Pretraining with Mamba in Vision (arxiv)
[2024] Mamba®: Vision Mamba ALSO Needs Registers (arxiv)
[2024] Scaling White-Box Transformers for Vision (arxiv)
[2024] HQ-Edit: A High-Quality Dataset for Instruction-based Image Editing (arxiv)
[2024] AQA-Bench: An Interactive
Frequently asked questions
Is Cihang Xie hiring PhD students at University of California, Santa Cruz?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Cihang Xie's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: I am co-leading the Vision · Learning · Assured Autonomy (VLAA) Lab with Professor Yuyin Zhou. Our lab has multiple openings for summer interns and visiting students with flexible starting times. If y.
What does Cihang Xie research?
My research interest lies at the intersection of computer vision and machine learning, with the goal of building human-level computer vision systems. I am particularly interested in securing model performance under distribution shifts, and developing deep representation learning with minimal supervi
Data last updated: 2026-09-11 · Source: phd-match.com faculty database.
Is Cihang Xie a match for your research?
Upload your CV and get matched to professors who fit — with hiring signals.
Start matching