Harry Yang

Harry Yang

Assistant Professor at HKUST AMC.
Previously Visiting Professor at Yale and Research Scientist at Meta. Co-founder of Everlyn.
PhD from USC, Undergrad from USTC. USC Distinguished Alumni.
Advancing AGI in image & video generation.

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Highlights

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Everlyn AI
The fastest video model we've ever built.
Yann LeCun joins as Advisor.
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Funding
Major Grants
• GRF/ECS 2025-26
• HKSTP Incubation
• HKUST TSSSU-O
• HKUST-POSTECH Joint Research Seed Grant
• HSBC Sign Language seed grant
• Binance/YZi Labs MVB 7 & 9 Incubation
Teaching
Fall 2025
AMCC 5160: AI-Driven Animation and Video Generation.
View Syllabus →

Selected Research

AAAI 2026 (Poster)
Next Patch Prediction for AutoRegressive Visual Generation
Yatian Pang (intern)
arXiv
COLM 2025
Meta-Learning for Speeding Up Large Model Inference in Decentralized Environments
Zihao Wang (PhD student)
arXiv
NeurIPS 2025
Hierarchical Fine-Grained Preference Optimization for Physically Plausible Video Generation
Haodong Chen (intern)
arXiv
NeurIPS 2025
When Semantics Mislead Vision: Mitigating Hallucinations in MLLMs
Yexin Liu (PhD student)
arXiv
NeurIPS 2025 NextVid Workshop (Oral)
VideoGen-of-Thought: Step-by-Step Generation of Multi-Shot Videos
Mingzhe Zheng (PhD student)
Project Page
ICCV 2025
DreamDance: Animating Human Images by Enriching 3D Geometry Cues
Yatian Pang (intern)
arXiv
ICCV 2025
Model Reveals What to Cache: Profiling-Based Feature Reuse
Xuran Ma, Yexin Liu, Yaofu Liu
arXiv
CVPR 2025
Unveiling the Ignorance of MLLMs: Seeing Clearly, Answering Incorrectly
Yexin Liu
arXiv
ICLR 2025
Intervening Anchor Token: Decoding Strategy in Alleviating Hallucinations
OpenReview
ICLR 2023
Make-A-Video: Text-to-Video Generation without Text-Video Data
Harry Yang et al.
Project Page
ECCV 2022
Long Video Generation with Time-Agnostic VQGAN and Time-Sensitive Transformer
Songwei Ge et al.
arXiv
CVPR 2017
High-Resolution Image Inpainting using Multi-Scale Neural Patch Synthesis
Harry Yang et al.
arXiv

Latest News

Current
Serving as Area Chair for ICLR 2026 and AAAI 2026.
Current
Yann LeCun joins Everlyn as Advisor.
Nov 2025
Giving a keynote speech at From Vibe to Viable, Build Real Apps with AI Coding + No-Code Workshop - Hong Kong.
Sep 2025
Giving a talk at HKUST-GZ CMA Seminar.
July 2025
Internship placements: Congratulations to my first-year PhD students for securing research internships at Kuaishou (Kling), Tencent, and Bytedance.
June 2025
Awarded GRF/ECS 2025-26 funding.
June 2025
Serving as Associate Editor for APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing.
June 2025
Visiting Meta AI, New York.
June 2025
  • Interviewed by RTHK on GenAI and video generation, discussing applications in Hong Kong local community. (Cantonese)
  • Interviewed by CNN on Embodied AI, discussing the current status, challenges, and future directions.
Feb 2025
  • Panelist at the Hong Kong Web3 & AI Builder Workshop, invited by Prof. Xiaofan Liu, speaking on “When AI Meets Web3: Redefining the Future for Developers and Builders.”
  • Panel speaker at DeSci HK 2025 during the 2025 HKG Consensus Web3 Conference (hosted by CityU), invited by Prof. Yu Wang.
Jan 2025
Awarded HKUST-POSTECH Joint Research Seed Grant.
Dec 2024
Video project approved for HKSTP Incubation Program (3 years).
Aug 2024
Hosted a roundtable at Foresight 2024 in Hong Kong.
Sep 2024
Visited Abu Dhabi (Royal Family meeting) and Token2049 Singapore.
April 2024

Opportunities

PhD Students
Join the Lab
We have openings for RPG students at HKUST AMC. Strong students are encouraged to apply for the HKPFS fellowship.
RA / Interns
Work with Us
We have internship opportunities at Everlyn Limited HK and HKUST.

The Lab

Current Students

Zihao Wang
HKUST
Yexin Liu
HKUST-GZ
Xuran Ma
BIT
Mingzhe Zheng
NPU
Jiajun Zha
Fudan
Yaofu Liu
HKUST
Haoze Zheng
Beijing Jiaotong
Wenjie Shu
UESTC
Weixiao Wang
CUHK
Dengyang Jiang
NPU

Alumni & Interns

Zhefan Rao
HKUST
Xianfeng Wu
Jianghan Univ
Yajing Bai
Jianghan Univ
Harold Chen
NPU
Yatian Pang
NUS
Feilong Tang
Monash
Bin Ma
XJTU
Sen Liang
USTC
Yuxiang Lin
Georgia Tech
Xin Yang
HKUST
Yiyu Zhuang
Nanjing U
Dongli Xu
USyd
Group at ICLR 2025

Group attending ICLR 2025 in Singapore