Jia-Fong Yeh | Ph.D. Candidate @ National Taiwan University

Biography

Jia-Fong Yeh is a final-year PhD student in Computer Science at National Taiwan University (NTU), supervised by Prof. Winston Hsu. In addition, he also works closely with Prof. Yi-Ting Chen from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU).

He leads the policy learning team and co-leads the robotics team in Prof. Hsu's lab. Recently, he completed a ML internship at Sony Japan. Before joining NTU, Jia-Fong earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). From 2016 to 2022, he worked with Prof. Tsung-Che Chiang and Prof. Shun-Shii Lin.

His research interests include computer vision, deep robot learning, and evolutionary algorithms. He is a graduate member of IEEE and received the NOVATEK Ph.D. Scholarship (2022), NeurIPS Scholar Award (2024) and NTUEE-1975 Technology Research Innovation Award (2025).

* Open to research discussions or collaborations.
* Actively looking for 2025/2026 full-time ML researcher/engineer roles.

Recent Updates

2025/05: [new] I won the NTUEE-1975 Technology Research Innovation Award!
2025/05: [new] I've been selected as Outstanding Reviewer in CVPR'25.
2025/02: A paper on offline RL is accepted to IEEE Trans. on Artificial Intelligence. I joined the work while interning at Sony.
2025/02: I will serve as Reviewer for NeurIPS'25 and ICCV'25.
2025/01: Our work (co-first author), VICtoR, is accepted to ICLR'25!
2024/11: I will serve as Reviewer for CVPR'25 and ICML'25.
2024/10: One paper on system-2 VQA dataset is accepted to NeurIPS'24 workshops!
2024/09: My first-author work, AED,is accepted to NeurIPS'24!
2024/09: Two papers on active 3D object detection and navigation replanning are accepted to CoRL'24!

Education

National Taiwan University

2019/09 – current

PhD in Computer Science
Advisor: Prof. Winston Hsu
GPA: 4.21/4.30

National Taiwan Normal University

2017/09 – 2019/06

MS in Computer Science
Advisor: Prof. Tsung-Che Chiang
GPA: 4.30/4.30

National Taiwan Normal University

2013/09 - 2017/06

BS in Computer Science
Project Advisor: Prof. Tsung-Che Chiang and Prof. Shun-Shii Lin
GPA: 3.74/4.30

Experience & Services

Internship	2023/10-2024/03	ML Researcher Intern, Sony, Tokyo
Reviewer	2022-present	CVPR, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ICCV, AAAI, ICASSP, WACV, ICDL, ICMLW, CVPRW
Teaching Assistant	2017-2021	NTU - Advanced Topics in Multimedia Analysis and Indexing (2021 Spring) NTU - Cognitive Computing (2020 Fall, best TA) NTNU - Data Science and Computer Programming (2018 Fall, 2019 Spring) NTNU - Computer Programming II (2018 Spring) NTNU - Computer Programming I (2017 Fall)

Awards

2025	NTUEE-1975 Technology Research Innovation Award
2024	NeurIPS Scholar Award
2022	NOVATEK PhD Scholarship
2019	ORSTW Master Thesis Award - Honorable mention
2018	ITSA Annual Collegiate Programming Contest (桂冠賽闖關組) - Honorable mention
2016-2022	Computer Chess Competition - 16 medals in Surakarta and Breakthrough chess