About me

I am currently a Ph.D. student (since 2020) in the State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, supervised by Prof. Youyi Zheng. Prior to this, I obtained my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Chu Kochen Honors College of Zhejiang University in 2020.

My research focuses on Neural Modeling, Neural Rendering, and Controllable Generation.

Publications

CamLit

CamLit: Unified Video Diffusion with Explicit Camera and Lighting Control

Zhiyi Kuang, Chengan He, Egor Zakharov, Yuxuan Xue, Shunsuke Saito, Olivier Maury, Timur Bagautdinov, Youyi Zheng, Giljoo Nam

Preprint 2026

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OLAT-GS

OLAT Gaussians for Generic Relightable Appearance Acquisition

Zhiyi Kuang, Yanchao Yang, Siyan Dong, Jiayue Ma, Hongbo Fu, and Youyi Zheng

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

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MonoHair

MonoHair: High-Fidelity Hair Modeling from a Monocular Video

Keyu Wu, Lingchen Yang, Zhiyi Kuang, Yao Feng, Xutao Han, Yuefan Shen, Hongbo Fu, Kun Zhou, Youyi Zheng

CVPR 2024 (Oral)

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DeepMVSHair

DeepMVSHair: Deep Hair Modeling from Sparse Views

Zhiyi Kuang, Yiyang Chen, Hongbo Fu, Kun Zhou, and Youyi Zheng

SIGGRAPH Asia 2022

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An improved version of DeepMVSHair is integrated in MonoHair. The improved version's pretrained model and inference code are available in MonoHair's repository.

Experiences

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Meta Reality Lab

Pittsburgh, USA | May 2025 ~ Nov. 2025

Research Scientist Intern

Worked with Giljoo Nam and Chengan He

Joint camera and lighting control in a Video Diffusion Model.

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Shanghai AI Lab

Shanghai, China | Aug. 2024 ~ Feb. 2025

Intern Researcher

Worked with Xudong Xu, Linning Xu and Mulin Yu

2DGS Physically-based Rendering.