Angel Xuan Chang
I am an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University. Prior to this, I was a visiting research scientist at Facebook AI Research and a research scientist at Eloquent Labs working on dialogue. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford, where I was part of the Natural Language Processing Group and advised by Chris Manning. My research focuses on connecting language to 3D representations of shapes and scenes and grounding of language for embodied agents in indoor environments. I have worked on methods for synthesizing 3D scenes and shapes from natural language, and various datasets for 3D scene understanding. In general, I am interested in the semantics of shapes and scenes, the representation and acquisition of common sense knowledge, and reasoning using probabilistic models. Some of my other interests include drawing and dance.
Associate Professor
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
3dlg-hcvc | GrUVi Lab | SFU NatLang
SFU AI/ML | VINCI
Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Amii)
TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Fellow (2018-2022)
Google Scholar
Classes
Spring 2023 - CMPT 983 Grounded Natural Language Understanding
Spring 2023 - CMPT 713 Natural Language Processing
Fall 2022 - CMPT 413/713 Natural Language Processing
Spring 2022 - CMPT 983 Grounded Natural Language Understanding
Fall 2021 - CMPT 413/713 Natural Language Processing
Spring 2021 - CMPT 983 Grounded Natural Language Understanding
Fall 2020 - CMPT 413/825 Natural Language Processing
Spring 2020 - CMPT 825 Natural Language Processing
Service
Conference and workshop organization
Conferences Workshops- Multimodalities for 3D Scenes Workshop at CVPR 2024
- Language for 3D Scenes Workshop at CVPR 2021, ECCV 2022
- ScanNet Benchmark Challenge at CVPR 2019-2023
- AI for 3D Generation at CVPR 2024
- Learning to Generate 3D Shapes and Scenes at CVPR 2021, ECCV 2022
- Learning 3D Generative Models at CVPR 2020
- 3D Scene Generation Workshop at CVPR 2019
- 3D Vision and Robotics Workshop at CVPR 2021
- Embodied AI Workshop at CVPR 2020, CVPR 2023-2024
- Visual Learning and Embodied Agents in Simulation Environments workshop at ECCV 2018
Area chair / senior program committee
- ICLR (2020-2021,2023-2024), NeurIPS (2023-2024), NeurIPS datasets and benchmarks (2023-2024)
- CVPR (2020-2021,2023-2024), ICCV (2023), 3DV (2024)
- SIGGRAPH Asia (2020)
- IJCAI (2021), AAAI (2021,2023)
Journal / rolling reviews editor
- ARR action editor
- CGF associate editor (2021-2024)
Reviewer
- ACL (outstanding reviewer 2018), NACCL, EMNLP, EACL, Coling, AKBC, SLSP
- AAAI, ICML (top reviewer 2020,2022), NeurIPS (top reviewer 2020), TMLR
- SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, Eurographics, 3DV, UIST, GI, CRV