Tong WU 吴桐

Tong WU 吴桐

Assistant Professor @ Fudan

Email: twu [at] fudan.edu.cn

Biography

Tong Wu is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI, Fudan University. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, working with Prof. Gordon Wetzstein. She obtained her PhD degree in 2024 from Multi-Media Lab(MMLab) at CUHK, under the supervision of Prof. Dahua Lin. She also works closely with Prof. Ziwei Liu at NTU and previously served as a visiting student researcher at Stanford University with Prof. Gordon Wetzstein. She received her bachelor’s degree from the EE Department at Tsinghua University in 2020, where she worked with Prof. Yu Wang and Prof. Jiansheng Chen.

Her research interests include Generative AI, 3D Vision, and Embodied AI, with a core focus on developing World Models via interactive, physically-grounded, memory-augmented, and self-evolving video and omni models.

I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D. and master’s students, undergraduate research interns, and jointly supervised students from Shanghai Innovation Institute and Shanghai AI Lab. If you are interested in working with me, please feel free to drop me an email!

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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Professor
Jun 2026 – Present Shanghai, China
 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral Researcher
Jan 2025 – Apr 2026 California, US
 
 
 
 
 
Visiting Student Researcher
Jan 2024 – Apr 2024 California, US
 
 
 
 
 
Ph.D. Student at MMLab@CUHK
Aug 2020 – Oct 2024 Hong Kong, China
 
 
 
 
 
Bachelor Degree in Engineering
Aug 2016 – Jun 2020 Beijing, China

Honors and Awards

  • 国家级青年人才项目(海外), 2025
  • ECCV 2024 Outstanding Reviewer, 2024
  • CVPR 2023 Best Paper Award Candidate, 2023
  • Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) of Hong Kong, 2020
  • Outstanding Graduate of Beijing, 2020
  • Outstanding Graduate of Tsinghua University, 2020
  • Outstanding Graduation Paper of Tsinghua University, 2020
  • National Scholarship, 2018