Chia-Hsiang Kao
I am a CS PhD candidate at Cornell and a Cornell Foundational AI PhD Fellow, advised by Prof. Bharath Hariharan. My research focuses on inferring the hidden dynamics of real-world interactions, spanning vision-language reasoning and video understanding.
I am currently a Student Researcher at Meta and was previously an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon. Before Cornell, I obtained my M.D. in Taiwan.
Publications
π Ξynamics: Language-Based Representation for Inferring Rigid-Body Dynamics From Videos
CVPR 2026
π Counter-Current Learning: A Biologically Plausible Dual Network Approach for Deep Learning
NeurIPS 2024
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AllClear: A Comprehensive Dataset and Benchmark for Cloud Removal in Satellite Imagery
NeurIPS 2024
βοΈ Caduceus: Bi-directional Equivariant Long-Range DNA Sequence Modeling
ICML 2024
Awards and Scholarships
2025
Foundational AI PhD Fellow, Cornell University
2021
Student Travel Award, MICCAI
2020
Undergraduate Research Fellowship, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
2018
Undergraduate Research Fellowship, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
2018
Summer Research Fellowship, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
Services
Conference Reviewer
AAAI [25], AISTATS [25], AutoML [22], CVPR [26], ECCV [26], ICML [25, 26], ICLR [25, 26], NeurIPS [21, 24, 25]
Interests
Surfing, lifeguard, running, and music.