Hi! I am a fifth-year PhD student at Columbia University, advised by Carl Vondrick. I work on machine learning methods for controlling multimodal generative models, particularly for applications in machine teaching. I previously graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, advised by Jianbo Shi. In my free time, I like to read (my GoodReads) and I recently started a blog.

News

  • July 2024: Paper accepted to ECCV 2024!
  • April 2024: Gave talks about Evolving Interpretable Visual Classifiers w/ LLMs at Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford and UPenn! Talk link is here.
  • Oct 2023: Quo Vadis, Computer Vision? Workshop at ICCV 2023
  • July 2023: Paper accepted to ICCV 2023!
  • Sept 2022: Paper accepted to Neurips 2022!
  • May 2022: Our research is reported on in Science and LeMonde
  • April 2022: Paper accepted to ICLR 2022 as an Oral!

Research

  • Evolving Interpretable Visual Classifiers with Large Language Models Mia Chiquier, Utkarsh Mall, Carl Vondrick
    PaperProject Page
    ECCV 2024
  • Muscles in Action Mia Chiquier, Carl Vondrick
    PaperProject PageTalk (5 min)
    ICCV 2023
  • Multiparty Perception for Navigation Hui Lu, Mia Chiquier, Carl Vondrick
    PaperProject Page
    Neurips 2022
  • Real-Time Neural Voice Camouflage Mia Chiquier, Chengzhi Mao, Carl Vondrick
    PaperProject PageScience.orgTalk (12 min)
    ICLR 2022 (Oral,Top 1.6%)
  • The Boombox: Visual Reconstruction from Acoustic Vibrations Boyuan Chen, Mia Chiquier, Hod Lipson, Carl Vondrick
    PaperProject Page
    CoRL 2021
  • Adversarial Attacks are Reversible with Natural Supervision Chengzhi Mao, Mia Chiquier, Hao Wang, Junfeng Yang, Carl Vondrick
    Paper
    ICCV 2021

Teaching/Service

Courses
Advanced Computer Vision (COMS 4731, Summer 2021)
Head Teaching Assistant
Columbia University
Dynamical Systems (ESE 210, Fall 2019)
Head Teaching Assistant
University of Pennsylvania
Service
Organizer: Quo Vadis, Computer Vision? Workshop (ICCV 2023)
Workshop Organizer
ICCV 2023
Reviewer
ICCV 2021, CVPR 2022
Columbia University
BEARS Mentorship (Spring 2021, Spring 2022)
Undergraduate Mentor
Barnard College
Organizer: Learning from Unlabeled Video Workshop (CVPR 2021)
Workshop Organizer
CVPR 2023