Yu Kong
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
Office: EB 3573
Email: yukong@cse.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 Transaction as an Associate Editor. He also serves CVPR and ICCV 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, open-set recognition, and meta-learning.
Openings: We have openings for Fall 2025 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
| Mar 31, 2025 | We have one paper accepted by CVPR 2025 Workshop on Efficient Large Vision Models. Congratulations to Yifan! |
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| 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] |
| Sep 13, 2024 | I will be serving as an Area Chair for CVPR 2025. |
| Sep 04, 2024 | We have received a grant from DoD/ARO ($300K) to develop Dynamic Scene Graphs (DSGs) over large-scale multimodal time series data for representation learning, enabling learning for a variety of computer vision tasks in complex and dynamic environments. |
| Aug 16, 2024 | We have received a grant from NSF ($1.5M) to develop a single comprehensive tool Varuna to perform media forensics with Dr. Matthew Wright (Rochester Institute of Technology, lead institute) and Dr. Andrea E Hickerson (University of Mississippi). |
| Aug 16, 2024 | Two new Ph.D. students, Zhongyi Cai and Wenliang Guo, are joining the lab. Welcome! |
| Jul 19, 2024 | Wentao Bao successfully defended his dissertation, and will be joining Meta as a research scientist. Congratulations Dr. Bao! |
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 |