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Shulin Tian

shulin002 [at] ntu.edu.sg

   

I am a PhD student at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, supervised by Prof. Ziwei Liu and Dr. Hongyuan Zhu.

Previously, I obtained my Bachelor's Degree from NTU, and I spent a wonderful time working with Prof. Ranjay Krishna at University of Washington on vision-language model reasoning, and Prof. Bihan Wen at NTU on low-light image enhancement.


News

  • [06/2025] Evaluation Agent was selected for an oral presentation and SAC Highlight Award (43/8350) at ACL 2025. Congrats to all coauthors!
  • [06/2025] We release the Ego-R1: Chain-of-Tool-Thought for Ultra-Long Egocentric Video Reasoning. Code and data can be found here.
  • [05/2025] MMInA leaderboard is now live at MMInA Proj Page.
  • [05/2025] Two papers are accepted to ACL 2025 (one main and one findings).
  • [03/2025] I am acknowledged as an outstanding reviewer for ICLR 2025 [SCOPE Workshop].
  • [01/2025] Our paper "AHA: A Vision-Language-Model for Detecting and Reasoning Over Failures in Robotic Manipulation" is accepted to ICLR 2025.
  • [12/2024] Our paper "Evaluation Agent: Efficient and Promptable Evaluation Framework for Visual Generative Models" is released.
  • [08/2024] Starting my PhD at MMLab@NTU.
  • [04/2024] Our paper "MMInA: Benchmarking Multihop Multimodal Internet Agents" is released.
  • [06/2023] Our paper "Enhancing Low-Light Images Using Infrared-Encoded Images" is accepted to ICIP 2023.

Publications

(* equal contributions)

Ego-R1: Chain-of-Tool-Thought for Ultra-Long Egocentric Video Reasoning
Shulin Tian*, Ruiqi Wang*, Hongming Guo, Penghao Wu, Yuhao Dong, Xiuying Wang, Jingkang Yang, Hao Zhang, Hongyuan Zhu, Ziwei Liu

arXiv, 2025 
Paper  /  Project Page  /  Code  /  Data

Area: Agentic tool-use, long video reasoning, egocentric

Evaluation Agent: Efficient and Promptable Evaluation Framework for Visual Generative Models
Fan Zhang*, Shulin Tian*, Ziqi Huang*‡, Yu Qiao†, Ziwei Liu†

ACL Main, 2025 (Oral, SAC Highlight Award) 
Paper  /  Project Page  /  Code

Area: Agent, GenAI

MMInA: Benchmarking Multihop Multimodal Internet Agents
Shulin Tian*, Ziniu Zhang*, Liangyu Chen*, Ziwei Liu

ACL Findings, 2025 
Paper  /  Project Page  /  Code  /  Data

Area: Multimodal agent benchmark on long-horizon reasoning

AHA: A Vision-Language-Model for Detecting and Reasoning Over Failures in Robotic Manipulation
Jiafei Duan, Wilbert Pumacay, Nishanth Kumar, Yi Ru Wang, Shulin Tian, Wentao Yuan, Ranjay Krishna, Dieter Fox, Ajay Mandlekar†, Yijie Guo†

ICLR, 2025 
Paper  /  Project Page

Area: Robotics, VLM

Enhancing Low-light Images Using Infrared Encoded Images
Shulin Tian*, Yufei Wang*, Renjie Wan, Wenhan Yang, Alex C. Kot, Bihan Wen

ICIP, 2023 
Paper  /  Code  /  Data

Area: Low-light image enhancement


Education

Nanyang Technological University

PhD in Computer Science
Aug. 2024 - Present

Nanyang Technological University

BEng in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (Highest Distinction)
Aug. 2020 - May 2024

Honors & Awards

Miscellanea

When it comes to music, I do:

When it comes to sports, I always try new things and do:

  • 🤿 Diving: PADI Certificated Open Water (2022) & Advanced Open Water Diver (2024)
  • 🧷 Others: badminton, hiking...

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