🐲 About Xulong

Hello! I’m Xulong Tang, you can call me Ben!

I am a third-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas(UTD). My research is primarily advised by Professor Rawan Alghofaili and co-advised by Professor Balakrishnan Prabhakaran.

Research Interests:

• 3D Human Dance Motion Generation
• Extended Reality (XR), including Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality
• Computer Vision
• Multimedia Retrieval
• Multimodal Learning

In addition to my research, I am also a game developer:

I have used Unity to create a VR educational game for teaching children about the universe at the Sci-Tech Discovery Center.

I have also contributed to the development of an unreleased third-person survival shooter game using Unreal Engine and C++, where I was responsible for gameplay and user interface.

🔥 News

• 2026.03:  🎉🎉 One paper was conditionally accepted at SIGGRAPH 2026.
• 2026.03:  🎉🎉 One paper was accepted at CVPR Workshop 2026.
• 2026.01:  🎉🎉 One paper was accepted at IEEE VR 2026.
• 2025.09:  🎉🎉 One paper was accepted at NeurIPS 2025.
• 2025.07:  🎉🎉 One paper was accepted at ACM Multimedia 2025.
• 2024.06:  🎉🎉 Two papers were accepted at ICMR 2024.
• 2024.01:  🎉🎉 Started my PhD at The University of Texas at Dallas.

📝 Publications

* denotes equal contribution.

IEEE VR 2026

Personalized Dance Synthesis Based on Physical and Cognitive Intensities

Project

Xulong Tang, Eun Yeo, Ruiyu Mao, Xiaohu Guo, Rawan Alghofaili

CVPR Workshop 2026

TokenDance: Token-to-Token Music-to-Dance Generation with Bidirectional Mamba

Ziyue Yang, Kaixing Yang, Xulong Tang

NeurIPS 2025

MEGADance: Mixture-of-Experts Architecture for Genre-Aware 3D Dance Generation

Paper Code

Kaixing Yang*, Xulong Tang*, Ziqiao Peng, Yuxuan Hu, Jun He, Hongyan Liu

ACM MM 2025

CoheDancers: Interactive Group Dance Generation via Music-Driven Coherence Decomposition

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Kaixing Yang*, Xulong Tang*, Haoyu Wu, Qinliang Xue, Biao Qin, Hongyan Liu, Zhaoxin Fan

ICMR 2024

CoDancers: Music-Driven Coherent Group Dance Generation with Choreographic Unit

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Kaixing Yang*, Xulong Tang*, Ran Diao, Hongyan Liu, Jun He, Zhaoxin Fan

ICMR 2024

BeatDance: A Beat-Based Model-Agnostic Contrastive Learning Framework for Music-Dance Retrieval

Paper Code

Kaixing Yang, Xukun Zhou, Xulong Tang, Ran Diao, Hongyan Liu, Jun He, Zhaoxin Fan

📖 Education

• 2024.01 - present, PhD in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
• 2023.09 - 2024.01, Master of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
• 2018.09 - 2022.06, Undergraduate, Xidian University, Xi’an, China

💼 Professional Experience

Reviewer

• CVPR   (2025–2026)
• ECCV   (2026)
• IEEE Transactions on Computers   (2024–2025)
• IEEE Virtual Reality   (2024–2025)

Instructor

• Augmented Reality 3D User Interface Design Workshop   (2024)
• Human-Centered eXtended Reality Lab   (2024)

Teaching Assistant

• CS4332: Introduction to Programming Video Games (2025)
• CS6331: Human-Computer Interaction (2024)

💻 Internships

• 2021.12 - 2022.06, Unreal Engine Developer, Shengqu Games, Shanghai, China