Iris Xia | UMass Amherst

About Me

I’m a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at UMass Amherst, advised by Professor Subhransu Maji. My research focuses on computer vision, particularly 3D perception and reconstruction.

Previously, I was a master’s student at Yale University advised by Professor Alex Wong.

Research Interests

Computer Vision: 3D perception and reconstruction

News

[Sep. 2026] I started my PhD in Computer Science at UMass Amherst, advised by Professor Subhransu Maji.
[Aug. 2026] Our paper VisTa3D: A Dataset and Benchmark for Thin Object Reconstruction from Vision, Tactile, and 3D Point Clouds is available on arXiv.
[Aug. 2025] Our paper on stepwise medical calculation is accepted to EMNLP 2025 Main.

Publications

ECCV

VisTa3D: A Dataset and Benchmark for Thin Object Reconstruction from Vision, Tactile, and 3D Point Clouds

Shania Guo, Yeongsik Seo, Andrew Fu, Mei Hao, Iris Xia, Jiwon Jenny Lee, Xinyi Mary Xie, Hyoungseob Park, Aaron Dollar, Alex Wong

The 19th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026).

PDF arXiv Dataset

EMNLP

From Scores to Steps: Diagnosing and Improving LLM Performance in Evidence-Based Medical Calculations

Iris Xia*, Benlu Wang*, Yifan Zhang, Junda Wang, Feiyun Ouyang, Shuo Han, hong yu, Zonghai Yao (* indicates equal contribution)

The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025).

PDF ACL Anthology