I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), advised by Prof. Tong He, Prof. Wanli Ouyang and Prof. Xiaogang Wang. I earned my B.S. degree in Artificial Intelligence Honor Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), advised by Prof. Cewu Lu. I also have had the privilege of working with Dr. Enze Xie, Dr. Hao-Shu Fang and Dr. Jim Fan.

Research for fun and truth. My current research interests focus on World Model, Video Generation and Embodied AI. The ultimate goal of my life is to discover myself, find the truth, and change the world! Feel free to follow me on X/Twitter and GitHub for latest research announcements and updates!

In my personal life, I am passionate (but amateur) about football, music, literature, philosophy, traditional Chinese painting, and modern Chinese poems!

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”

Ph.D. Student · USTC
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World Models Video Generation Embodied AI

News

18 updates
May 2026 🚀 SANA-WM released — efficient minute-scale world modeling with hybrid linear diffusion transformer. Announcement, reposted by NVIDIA AI. Paper, code.
Apr. 2026 🏅 $\pi^3$ is selected as China3DV 2026 Top 1 Paper (1 / 154)!
Jan. 2026 🎉 $\pi^3$, WinT3R, and OmniWorld accepted by ICLR 2026!
Oct. 2025 Won the National Scholarship and the First Price Academic Scholarship at USTC!
Oct. 2025 🏆 Aether won Outstanding Paper Award and Oral Presentation at ICCV 2025 RIWM workshop!
Sep. 2025 OmniWorld released — a multi-domain and multi-modal dataset for 4D world modeling.
Sep. 2025 WinT3R released — feed-forward reconstruction with online camera pose and point map prediction.
Jul. 2025 $\pi^3$ announced — reference-free visual geometry reconstruction. Paper, code, demo.
Jun. 2025 Aether and VQ-VLA accepted by ICCV 2025!
Jun. 2025 DeepVerse released — an auto-regressive 4D world model.
Feb. 2025 SPA accepted by ICLR 2025; Tra-MoE accepted by CVPR 2025.
Oct. 2024 SPA announced — 3D spatial awareness for embodied AI. Paper, code, models.
Sep. 2024 PointCloudMatters accepted by NeurIPS D&B 2024. Code.
Oct. 2023 PonderV2 and UniPAD announced — universal pre-training for 3D vision.
Jul. 2023 RH20T announced — a large-scale real-world robotic dataset.
Nov. 2022 🏆 MineDojo won Outstanding Paper Award at NeurIPS 2022!
Nov. 2022 AlphaPose accepted by TPAMI — 8.3K+ stars on GitHub.
Jun. 2022 MineDojo announced — open-ended agents with internet-scale knowledge in Minecraft.

Featured Research

2 projects
arXiv 2026

SANA-WM: Efficient Minute-Scale World Modeling with Hybrid Linear Diffusion Transformer

An efficient 2.6B open-source world model that generates minute-scale, 720p videos with precise camera control on a single GPU — up to 36× higher throughput than prior open-source baselines. Reposted by NVIDIA AI on X.

ICCV 2025

Aether: Geometric-Aware Unified World Modeling

🏆 💫✨ Outstanding Paper Award ✨💫 at 1st ICCV workshop on Reliable and Interactive World Models (RIWM), 2025 & International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025

A geometric-aware unified world model, capable of 4D reconstruction, action-conditioned prediction, and visual planning.

Publications

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Haoyi Zhu, Yifan Wang, Jianjun Zhou, Wenzheng Chang, Yang Zhou, Zizun Li, Junyi Chen, Chunhua Shen, Jiangmiao Pang, Tong He

🏆 💫✨ Outstanding Paper Award ✨💫 at 1st ICCV workshop on Reliable and Interactive World Models (RIWM), 2025 & International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
ICCV 2025
2025

Experience

2021 — present
Sep. 2023 — now Ph.D in Computer ScienceUSTC Shanghai, China
Dec. 2025 — Jul. 2026 Research InternSANA team, Efficient AI Lab, NVIDIA Shanghai, China
Sep. 2023 — Nov. 2025 Research InternShanghai AI Lab Shanghai, China
Sep. 2019 — Jun. 2023 B.S. in Artificial IntelligenceMVIG, SJTU Shanghai, China
Feb. 2022 — Feb. 2023 Research InternJim Fan's Team (GEAR Lab), NVIDIA Shanghai, China
Apr. 2021 — Feb. 2022 Research InternXu Lab, CMU Shanghai, China

Paintings

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