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Lehan Yang
PhD Student, University of Virginia
Email: lehan.yang.cs (at) gmail.com
Biography

Lehan Yang (杨乐涵) is a second-year PhD student at the University of Virginia, advised by Prof. Sheng Li. He will return to Adobe Research as a Research Scientist Intern in Summer 2026, following his previous internship at Adobe Research in 2025, where he worked with Dr. Kenji Enomoto and Dr. Brian Price.

Prior to this, he was a visiting student at the University of California, Merced, advised by Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang, Dr. Varun Jampani, and Dr. Lu Qi. He received his bachelor’s degree with First Class Honours from the University of Sydney.

His primary research interests lie in computer vision generation problems, including controllable generation, image editing, and generative dense prediction.

Research
(* indicates equal contribution, below shows a list of the selected publications, for a full list of publications, please refer to my Google Scholar page)
Lehan Yang, Lu Qi, Xiangtai Li, Sheng Li, Varun Jampani, Ming-Hsuan Yang
Poster
Lu Qi*, Lehan Yang*, Weidong Guo, Yu Xu, Bo Du, Varun Jampani, Ming-Hsuan Yang
Poster
Lehan Yang, Jincen Song, Tianlong Wang, Daiqing Qi, Weili Shi, Yuheng Liu, Sheng Li
Lu Qi*, Yi-Wen Chen*, Lehan Yang*, Tiancheng Shen, Xiangtai Li, Weidong Guo, Yu Xu, Ming-Hsuan Yang
Education
Ph.D. Student
Aug. 2024 - Present
Charlottesville, VA
Bachelor of Advanced Computing (Honours)
Aug. 2020 - Jun. 2024
Sydney, Australia
Experience
Research Scientist Intern
Est Start May. 2026
San Jose, CA
Research Scientist Intern
May. 2025 - Nov. 2025
San Jose, CA
Visiting Scholar | With Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang
Jun. 2023 - Jul. 2023
Merced, CA
Professional Service
Conference Reviewer: CVPR'24 / ECCV'24 / NeurIPS'24,25(Top Reviewer) / AAAI'25,26 / ICLR'25,26 / ICML'25 / ACMMM'25 / WACV'26
Journal Reviewer: TPAMI / Neurocomputing