About Me
I'm a third-year Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Dan Xu at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). I earned my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Electronic Engineering from HKUST. I also spent a semester on exchange at ETH Zurich, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Danda Paudel on 3D gaze estimation and eye modeling.
My research lies in Generative AI, with a focus on Controllable and Efficient image/video generation. More recently, I have been increasingly interested in how such generative models can serve for Embodied Intelligence. Feel free to reach out for discussions and collaborations.
🗞️ News
- Sep 2026: Two papers (SAFE-Hair and VTP) on 3D Generation and Multi-task Learning accepted by NeurIPS 2026. Thanks to Prof. Dan Xu for his great help and all coauthors. Appreciate the dedication of Zedong Wang!
- Jul 2026: One co-authored paper (LiveLight) on Video Relighting accepted by ACM TOG 2026. Appreciate the dedication of Yue Ma!
- Mar 2026: One paper (CARE-Edit) on Image Editing accepted by CVPR 2026. Thanks to Prof. Dan Xu for his great help and all coauthors. Appreciate the dedication of Zedong Wang!
- Mar 2026: One co-authored paper (EasyVFX) on VFX Generation accepted by SIGGRAPH 2026. Appreciate the dedication of Yue Ma!
- Aug 2025: One co-authored survey on Controllable Video Generation released on arXiv. Appreciate the dedication of Yue Ma!
- Jul 2025: One co-authored paper (CoPart) on 3D Generation accepted by ICCV 2025. Appreciate the dedication of Shaocong Dong!
- Jul 2025: One paper on Talking Head Generation released on arXiv.
- Jun 2024: I’ve graduated from HKUST with the Academic Achievement Medal. Thank you all my mentors and friends!
🎓 Education
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2024 - Present Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science
- ETH Zurich 2023 Spring Exchange student, Computer Science
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2020 - 2024 with Academic Achievement Medal Bachelor of Science, Computer Science Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Engineering (Double Major)
💼 Experience
- SmartMore Nov 2023 - Jan 2024 Research Intern, Mentored by: Dr. Yuechen Zhang and Dr. Yukang Chen Focus: Vision-Language Model
- Computer Vision Laboratory @ETH Zurich Aug 2023 - Nov 2023 Research Intern, Mentored by: Prof. Danda Paudel Focus: Generative Model
📚 Selected Publications
CARE-Edit: Condition-Aware Routing of Experts for Contextual Image Editing
Yucheng Wang*, Zedong Wang*, Yuetong Wu, Yue Ma, Dan Xu
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
SAFE-Hair: Scalp-Anchored Fields for Exportable Single-View Hair Reconstruction
Yucheng Wang*, Zedong Wang*, Yuetong Wu, Yue Ma, Dan Xu
(Coming Soon!)
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
Virtual Task Prompting for Multi-Task Scene Understanding
Zedong Wang*, Yucheng Wang*, Dan Xu
(Coming Soon!)
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
LiveLight: Real-time Streaming Video Relighting with Interactive Control
Yue Ma, Jiangming Wang, Yucheng Wang, Xilai Wang, Zhiyuan Li, Xinyu Wang, Hongyu Liu, Ruofan Liang, Songchun Zhang, Yuxuan Xue, Qifeng Chen
[Paper] [Code] [Project Page] [Model]
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2026
🎖 Selected Awards
- 2024 Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme
- 2023 HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund - Reaching Out Award
- 2022 HKSAR Government Scholarship
- 2021 The Joseph Lau Luen Hung Charitable Trust Scholarship
👨🏫 Teaching Assistant
- COMP2012 Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures
- COMP3211 Learning, Reasoning, and Decision Making in AI
- COMP5422 Deep 2D and 3D Visual Scene Understanding
📝 Journal Reviewer
- TPAMI IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- IJCV International Journal of Computer Vision