Tao Sun

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Hi! I am an Applied Scientist at Amazon. Previously, I did my PhD study in Computer Science at Stony Brook University, fortunately advised by Prof. Haibin Ling.

I am broadly interested in machine learning and computer vision, particularly vision-language learning, domain adaptation, weakly-supervised learning. I also work on adversarial attack and defense of neural networks.

Contact: tao # cs.stonybrook.edu


news

Nov 2024 Successfully defended my PhD thesis.
Oct 2024 One paper on Semi-Supervised Learning accepted by WACV 2025.
Aug 2024 Finished my internship at Amazon, Seattle! We worked on multi-modal In-Context-Learning for LLaVA model.

selected publications

  • Mask and Restore: Blind Backdoor Defense at Test Time with Masked Autoencoder
    Tao Sun, Lu Pang, Chao Chen, and Haibin Ling
    arXiv 2023    |    arXiv  •  Code
  • Local Context-Aware Active Domain Adaptation
    Tao Sun, Cheng Lu, and Haibin Ling
    ICCV 2023    |    Paper  •  arXiv  •  Code
  • Backdoor Cleansing with Unlabeled Data
    Lu Pang, Tao Sun, Haibin Ling, and Chao Chen
    CVPR 2023    |    Paper  •  arXiv  •  Code
  • Domain Adaptation with Adversarial Training on Penultimate Activations
    Tao Sun, Cheng Lu, and Haibin Ling
    AAAI 2023    |    Oral Presentation  •  Paper  •  arXiv  •  Code
  • Prior Knowledge Guided Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
    Tao Sun, Cheng Lu, and Haibin Ling
    ECCV 2022    |    Paper  •  arXiv  •  Code
  • Safe Self-Refinement for Transformer-Based Domain Adaptation
    Tao Sun, Cheng Lu, Tianshuo Zhang, and Haibin Ling
    CVPR 2022    |    Paper  •  arXiv  •  Code
  • End-to-end Full Projector Compensation
    Bingyao Huang, Tao Sun, and Haibin Ling
    TPAMI 2021    |    Paper  •  arXiv  •  Code

industry experience

Applied Scientist, Amazon Shopping (Nov. 2024 - )

Applied Scientist Intern, Amazon Shopping (May 2024 - Aug. 2024)

Multimodal LLM, Instruction tuning, Agents

Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Adobe DX (May 2023 - Aug. 2023)

Time series forecasting

Machine Learning Engineer, Ant Group (July 2018 - July 2019)

Recommender system

Software Engineer Intern, Baidu NLP (Sept. 2017 - Dec. 2017)

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