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About Me

Tongyan Wang (She/Her)
Tongyan Wang

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Welcome! I am Tongyan, a 2nd-Year PhD student researching LLM Alignment and Multimodal-AI at Purdue University. I am also interested in developing human-AI collaborated systems.

Prior to my PhD, I earned my master's degree in Industrial Systems & Engineering at the University of Washington and B.Eng in Material Science & Engineering from Peking University.

Feel free to shoot me an email to connect!

Work Experience

Machine Learning Research Engineer Intern

Fall 2026
Kilby Labs

Developing Agentic LLM pipelines for MEMS design synthesis, simulation, and layout optimization.

Selected Publications

FineMoLA: Towards Fine-Grained Motion-Language Alignment from Clip-Level Supervision

FineMoLA: Towards Fine-Grained Motion-Language Alignment from Clip-Level Supervision

Tongyan Wang*, Zhengyuan Li*, Muhan Lin, Shengyang Luo, Yifan Shen, Aniket Bera, Baijian Yang, Yingjie Victor Chen

CVPR '26 Workshop, Denver, Colorado, USA

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LuxKnit: Interactive Display Textiles with Sensing by Machine Knitting research

LuxKnit: Fabricating Interactive Display Textiles Integrated with Sensing by Machine Knitting

Tongyan Wang, Mohan Chi, Yue Yu, Kedi Yan, Mo Li, Yiyue Luo, Rua Williams

CHI '25, Yokohama, Japan

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KnitA11y: Fabricating Accessible Designs with Machine Knitting research

KnitA11y: Fabricating Accessible Designs with Machine Knitting

Tongyan Wang, Hanwen Zhao, Yusuf Shahpurwala, Megan Hofmann, Jennifer Mankoff

CHI '25 Late-Breaking Work, Yokohama, Japan

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KnitScript: A Domain-Specific Scripting Language for Advanced Machine Kniting research

KnitScript: A Domain-Specific Scripting Language for Advanced Machine Kniting

Megan Hofmann, Lea Albaugh, Tongyan Wang, Jennifer Mankoff, Scott Hudson

UIST '23, San Francisco, CA, USA

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Service & Mentoring