Yihang Chen

I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), advised by Prof. Yinghao Xu. I received my B.Eng. degree in Software Engineering from Zhejiang University (ZJU). I am also a Research Intern at Ant Group, mentored by Dr. Nan Xue.

Previously, I gained research experience at the State Key Lab of CAD&CG with Prof. Zhaopeng Cui and at the International Design Institute (IDI) with Prof. Lingyun Sun.

Publications

MeGAS: Thermomechanical Dynamic Gaussian Splatting for Thermophysical Scene Editing

Zesong Yang, Yuanhang Lei, Liyuan Cui, Yihang Chen, Jiaer Huang, Boming Zhao, Peter Yichen Chen, Hujun Bao, Zhaopeng Cui

ECCV 2026

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Geometric Context Transformer for Streaming 3D Reconstruction

Lin-Zhuo Chen, Jian Gao, Yihang Chen, Ka Leong Cheng, Yipengjing Sun, Liangxiao Hu, Nan Xue, Xing Zhu, Yujun Shen, Yao Yao, Yinghao Xu

ECCV 2026

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Advancing Open-source World Models

Robbyant Team, Zelin Gao, Qiuyu Wang, Yanhong Zeng, Jiapeng Zhu, Ka Leong Cheng, Yixuan Li, Hanlin Wang, Yinghao Xu, Shuailei Ma, Yihang Chen, Jie Liu, Yansong Cheng, Yao Yao, Jiayi Zhu, Yihao Meng, Kecheng Zheng, Qingyan Bai, Jingye Chen, Zehong Shen, Yue Yu, Xing Zhu, Yujun Shen, Hao Ouyang

arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.20540

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Experience

Ant Group

Research Intern

Mentor: Dr. Nan Xue · Sep 2025 – Present

Education

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering

Supervisor: Prof. Yinghao Xu · 2026 – Present

Zhejiang University

B.Eng. in Software Engineering

2022 – 2026

Honors & Awards

Top 10 Students in Computer Science Department, Zhejiang University 2025
National Scholarship 2025
National Scholarship 2023