I am Xingguang (Kevin) Yan, a Ph.D. student at the GrUVi lab of SFU, supervised by Prof. Angel X. Chang. Previously, I obtained my master’s degree in the Visual Computing Center (VCC) at Shenzhen University under the supervision of Prof. Hui Huang. I also worked with Prof. Daniel Cohen-Or and Prof. Niloy J. Mitra.

My research is focused on how to efficiently represent, process, understand and generate structured visual content, spanning the fields of computer graphics, computer vision, and machine learning. Recent advances of deep generative methods (such as diffusion models, autoregressive models) have unlocked remarkable success in visual generation. I am interested in further making such processes more controllable via structured visual representations.