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Ziyu Chen

Ph.D. Student in Computer Science
Stanford University

Email: [email protected]

About Me

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 as a visiting student at the University of Southern California and collaborated closely with Prof. Marco Pavone from Stanford University. I received my Master’s degree under Prof. Li Song and my Bachelor’s from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Research Focus. My current research focuses on visual generative models, including methods and architectures that unify visual understanding and generation and make them more efficient, controllable, and aligned with human intentions, as well as their applications in physical-world modeling.

My past work focuses on neural 3D representations (NeRFs/SDF/3DGS), large-scale dynamic scene modeling, human body modeling, and closed-loop simulation and evaluation for embodied agents.

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Publications

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†
(† equal advising)
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
(* equal contribution)
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/simulation, supporting multiple popular driving datasets, including: Waymo, PandaSet, ArgoVerse2, KITTI, NuScenes and NuPlan. It also provides different types of Gaussian representations for reconstructing rigid (Vehicles) and non-rigid individuals (Pedestrians, Cyclists, etc.).

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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