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
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