Yu Kong
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
Office: EB 3573
Email: actionlab@msu.edu
Dr. Yu Kong is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University. He is now directing the ACTION Lab. He serves Pattern Recognition and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia as an Associate Editor. He also serves CVPR, ICCV, IJCAI, AAAI, Multimedia, FG, etc., as an Area Chair. He is an IEEE Senior Member.
Dr. Kong is interested in video understanding, vision-language modeling, video diffusion, open world vision, and their applications in Embodied AI and Biometrics. More specifically, he works on action recognition, visual forecasting, video question-answering, video grounding, video generation, vision-language navigation, etc.
Openings: We have openings for Fall 2026 for Ph.D. students, Visiting Scholars, and Research Assistants. Due to large volume of emails, I am not able to track and respond to every applicant. Please fill in the external contact form, and I will review applications periodically. How to apply?
news
| Nov 10, 2025 | One paper about Egocentric Video Generation has been accepted by WACV 2026. Congratulations to Yujiang! |
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| Sep 25, 2025 | Our project on Neuro-Symbolic Video Understanding ($50K) is selected for funding by Jenison Fund. |
| Sep 18, 2025 | We have one paper accepted by NeurIPS 2025. Congratulations to Yifan! |
| Aug 16, 2025 | I will be serving CVPR 2026 as an Area Chair. |
| Jun 25, 2025 | We have one paper accepted by ICCV 2025. Congratulations to Yifan! |
| Mar 31, 2025 | We have one paper accepted by CVPR 2025 Workshop on Efficient Large Vision Models. Congratulations to Yifan! |
| Feb 26, 2025 | We have one paper accepted by CVPR 2025. Congratulations to Zhanbo on his first CVPR paper at ACTION Lab! |
| Dec 02, 2024 | I will be serving ICCV 2025 as an Area Chair. |
| Oct 28, 2024 | We have one paper accepted by WACV 2025. Congrats to all the authors! |
| Sep 17, 2024 | ACTION Lab members were attending Midwest Computer Vision Workshop at Indiana University Bloomington. [Photo] |
latest posts
| May 12, 2025 | Ego-centric Video Understanding |
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| May 08, 2025 | Industrial Embodied Question-Answering |
| May 01, 2025 | Visual Understanding in the Open World |