Tianyi Ma 2025

Tianyi Ma

Seeking 2026 Summer Internships

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Engineering @ Michigan State University

About Me

I am a Ph.D. Student in HLR lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, advised by Prof. Parisa Kordjamshidi . My research interests include Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Reasoning and Agents, and Vision-and-Language Navigation.

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Recent Publications

Experience

Visiting Scholar

UCLA NLP & PLUS lab, Aug 2025 - Dec 2025

Teaching Assistant

Michigan State University, CSE 380, Spring 2025

Teaching Assistant

Michigan State University, CSE 325, Fall 2024

Selected Publications

Blog

Latest Post

March 2026 · UniPat AI Blog

SWE-Vision: A Minimal Agent for Advancing Visual Intelligence

This post introduces SWE-Vision, a lightweight agent framework for improving visual understanding at test time through code execution. It outlines the core idea, practical setup, and key takeaways for building more capable multimodal systems.

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My Photography

About My Photography

Photography has been a passion of mine for many years. I love capturing the beauty of nature and urban landscapes. My work focuses on finding unique perspectives and playing with light and shadow to create compelling images.