Willis (Nanye) Ma

I’m a senior student in Honors Mathematics and Computer Science at NYU Courant, where I’m fortunate to be advised by Saining Xie and work with Mark Goldstein, Michael Albergo, Nick Boffi, and Eric Vanden-Eijnden.

I’m broadly interested in Computer Vision, with a particular focus on measure transport in generative modeling. Here are some directions that I’m recently exploring:

Cross-domain Generation: solve measure transport between arbitrary densities to extend the scope of vision generative models beyond noise-to-image and to other modalities (speech-to-image, text-to-speech, etc.).

Resolving Real-world Problem with Limited Data: understand and leverage the knowledge learned by pre-trained vision generative models to approach various vision tasks in few- or zero-shot manners.

Long Form Video Generation: enhance the fidelity and consistency of video generation models, and further extend the spatiotemporal scale beyond the seconds scope.

Besides academics, I enjoy my leisure time in outdoor activities: basketball, hiking, and snowboarding (very new to this!), and I love using my camera to record moments of life. I’m also on my way to collecting playbooks of all Broadway shows (got six now!), and my favorite so far is Come from Away.

Here is my CV.