Lixing Tan / 谭立行

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Beihang University’s State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, jointly advised by Associate Researcher Qing Xia and Prof. Aimin Hao. I hold a master’s degree from the University of Science and Technology Beijing and a bachelor’s degree from Guizhou University.

I am currently a Research Intern with Canva’s AI Efficiency team, where I contribute to Canva Craft, an image generation model that debuted at No. 4 on DesignArena’s image leaderboard (the top three were all GPT-Image series models). Previously, I interned with the human body team at Meitu’s MT Lab, working on diffusion models and personalized image generation.

My research interests include cross-modal representation alignment between motion and language, generative artificial intelligence, and medical image processing. Recently, I have been collaborating closely with Dr. Yang-Hao Zhou on video generation and understanding.

I have served as a reviewer for Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), as recorded on my ORCID profile.

I welcome research collaborations—feel free to get in touch!

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Portrait of Lixing Tan
Beijing, China

News

More updates
  • Started my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Beihang University.
  • Recognized as an Outstanding Graduate of Beijing’s higher education institutions.
  • Our paper CT2X-GAN was accepted to ACM MM 2024!

Published & Accepted

* Corresponding author · † Equal contribution (co-first authors) · ‡ Project Leader

GSMedQA: Graph-Structured Prompting with Multimodal Priors for Medical Visual Question Answering

Guo Yuting, Zhenyu Yang, Lixing Tan, Yujing Yan, Wenfeng Song, Xia Hou

BIBM 2026 · Accepted Sep 2026 CCF B

Preprints

* Corresponding author · † Equal contribution (co-first authors) · ‡ Project Leader

Education

Beihang University

Beihang University

Ph.D. in Computer Science · In progress

Sep 2025 – Present

University of Science and Technology Beijing

University of Science and Technology Beijing

M.Eng. in Electronic Information

MedAI Lab · Advised by Dr. Shuang Song and Prof. Ruoxiu Xiao

Sep 2022 – Jun 2025

Guizhou University

Guizhou University

B.Eng. in Communication Engineering

Research mentors: Prof. Hanyu Lu and Prof. Rongfen Zhang

Sep 2017 – Jun 2021

Experience

Canva · AI Efficiency

Research Intern

Distillation · Reinforcement Learning · Agents

Apr 2026 – Present

Canva Craft debuted at #4 on DesignArena with an Elo score of 1340 (October 2026) Canva Craft · Contributor I contributed to Canva Craft during my research internship at Canva. Official Canva announcement · Oct 22, 2026 View original post on X

Meitu-MT Lab · Human Body Team

Computer Vision Engineer (Intern)

Diffusion Models · FLUX · Personalized Generation

Jun 2025 – Sep 2025

Pet creation & AIGC efficiencyGeneration and editing for pet creation, alongside inference-efficiency exploration.Explore internship work

CSIC

Embedded Software Engineer

Embedded C Programming · C# Software Development

Jul 2021 – Sep 2021

Honors & Awards

More awards (6)
  • First Prize, Beijing · Challenge Cup Entrepreneurship Competition, 2024
  • National Special Prize · Challenge Cup Science and Technology Competition, “Black Technology” Track, 2023
  • Special Prize, Beijing · Challenge Cup Science and Technology Competition, “Black Technology” Track, 2023
  • Second Prize, Beijing · 9th Internet+ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
  • Provincial Second Prize · Chinese Mathematics Competitions (CMC), 2021
  • Provincial Second Prize · National College Students’ Entrepreneurship Competition, 2021

Miscellaneous

Outside research, I enjoy badminton, jump rope, and reading.

I enjoy films and especially recommend The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.

I also enjoy listening to vaporwave.