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    hello! my name is Raphi:)

    I am a PhD student at Caltech advised by Pietro Perona and Georgia Gkioxari. I work on interpreting and improving computer vision models. I received my Bachelor's Degree in Computation and Cognition at MIT with a minor in Biomedical Engineering. In my free time I like to paint, draw, and make comic/storybooks! The easiest way to reach me is by email.

         
  • Publications & Presentations

    ​Raphi Kang*, Harry Chen*, Georgia Gkioxari, Pietro Perona. Linear Mechanisms for Spatiotemporal Reasoning in Vision Language Models. In Submission. [PDF]

    ​Raphi Kang, Yue Song, Georgia Gkioxari, Pietro Perona. Is CLIP ideal? No. Can we fix it? Yes! ICCV 2025. [ARXIV] [PDF] [GITHUB]

    Raphi Kang, Arturo Deza, Tomaso Poggio (2022). Adversarially Robust Features as alternative features for rendering of Full-Field Foveated Metamers. Selected for Oral Presentation at NECV 2022. [POSTER] [ABSTRACT]

    ​Raphi Kang, Aziz Djelouah, Christopher Schroers, Markus Gross. Image Style Transfer for Artists. Semester Research thesis, Disney Research Studio, 2022

    Mila Halgren, Raphi Kang, Bradley Voytek, Istvan Ulbert, Daniel Fabo, Lorand Eross, Lucia Wittner, Joseph Madsen, Werner K Doyle, Orrin Devinsky, Eric Halgren, Mark Harnett, Sydney S. Cash. (2021). The timescale and magnitude of aperiodic activity decreases with cortical depth in humans, macaques and mice. doi:10.1101/2021.07.28.454235

  • Art

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    Comics

    This Is Not My House. (CMS.306 Assignment B)

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    The Mermaid. (CMS.306 Assignment A)

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    Landfill Artist (Chapter 1 drawn for DAAMIT Anthology Jan 2021)

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    Managing Flow - course material comic drawn for MIT 6.UAT

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    Wrapping it Up - course material comic drawn for MIT 6.UAT

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    Mushroom Soup (drawn for DAAMIT Anthology Jan 2022)

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    Storybook (draft)

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