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Ziyu Chen

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
Stanford University

Email: ziyuchen@stanford.edu

About

I am a first-year CS Ph.D. student at Stanford University, advised by Prof. Jiajun Wu. My research is generously supported by the Stanford Graduate Fellowship.

Previously, I worked with Prof. Yue Wang at USC and collaborated closely with Prof. Marco Pavone. I received my M.S. and B.S. degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

I'm working on visual generative models.

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Research

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RealWonder: Real-Time Physical Action-Conditioned Video Generation

Wei Liu, ◆Ziyu Chen, Zizhang Li, Yue Wang, ◇Hong-Xing Yu, ◇Jiajun Wu

Under Review

The Neverwhere Visual Parkour Benchmark Suite

Ziyu Chen, Henghui Bao, Haoran Chang, Alan Yu, Ran Choi, Kai McClennen, Gio Huh, Kevin Yang, Ri-Zhao Qiu, Yajvan Ravan, John J. Leonard, Xiaolong Wang, Phillip Isola, ◇Ge Yang, ◇Yue Wang

Under Review

OmniRe: Omni Urban Scene Reconstruction

Ziyu Chen, Jiawei Yang, Jiahui Huang, Riccardo de Lutio, Janick Martinez Esturo, Boris Ivanovic, Or Litany, Zan Gojcic, Sanja Fidler, Marco Pavone, Li Song, Yue Wang

ICLR 2025 (Spotlight)

360-Degree Panorama Generation from Few Unregistered NFoV Images

Jionghao Wang, ◆Ziyu Chen, Jun Ling, Rong Xie, Li Song

ACM Multimedia 2023

L-Tracing Image

L-Tracing: Fast Light Visibility Estimation on Neural Surfaces by Sphere Tracing

Ziyu Chen, Chenjing Ding, Jianfei Guo, Dongliang Wang, Yikang Li, Xuan Xiao, Wei Wu, Li Song

ECCV 2022

Open-source

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A 3DGS codebase for dynamic urban scene reconstruction and simulation, featuring different Gaussian representations for rigid actors (vehicles) and non-rigid actors (pedestrians, cyclists, etc.). Supported datasets include Waymo, PandaSet, ArgoVerse2, KITTI, NuScenes, NuPlan.

Recent Talks
OmniRe: Omni Urban Scene Reconstruction
  • MIT, Visual Computing Seminar, Oct 2024
  • Peking University, Hyperplane Lab, Oct 2024
  • LiAuto, Sept 2024
Honors & Awards

Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Stanford, 2025

National Scholarship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2023

Zhiyuan Honor Fellowship, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2018-2022

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