CN TsinghuaDepartment of Electronic Engineering Feb 28
Works on urban science and computing, AI for spatio-temporal and mobility data, and large-model agents for social simulation.
Time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data Physics-based simulation & animation Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 AgentSwift: Efficient LLM Agent Design via Value-guided Hierarchical Search AAAI 2026 Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists' impact but contract science's focus Nature 122 T1 · 175 papers · 53 members · 72 alumni SaveHK CUHKDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering Dec 1
Pheng Ann Heng Choh-Ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Develops AI and virtual reality for medical applications, including medical image analysis and surgical simulation.
Medical imaging & healthcare AI Physics, climate & scientific computing Physics-based simulation & animation2026 Attenuation-Resilient Alternating Optimization for Laparoscopic Liver Landmark Detection MICCAI 2026 Benchmarking Endoscopic Surgical Image Restoration and Beyond CVPR 94 T1 · 174 papers · Group size not listed SaveCN SJTUSchool of Computer Science May 31
Lizhuang Ma Distinguished Professor Directs the Digital Media and Computer Vision Laboratory, working on computer vision, digital media and computer animation.
Physics-based simulation & animation2026 Beyond [CLS] Token: Query-Driven Token-Level Forgery Purification for Generalizable Deepfake Detection CVPR 2026 Cycle-World: Mitigating Error Accumulation in Long-Term Video World Models via Reverse-Prediction Cycle Consistency ECCV 73 T1 · 103 papers · 29 members · 88 alumni SaveCA TorontoComputer Science Dec 1
Studies 3D computer vision and generative models for content creation and simulation.
3D vision & neural rendering Generative & foundation models Physics-based simulation & animation2026 ChronoEdit: Towards Temporal Reasoning for In-Context Image Editing and World Simulation ICLR 2026 DiffusionHarmonizer: Bridging Neural Reconstruction and Photorealistic Simulation with Online Diffusion Enhancer CVPR 61 T1 · 63 papers · 21 members · 61 alumni SaveUS UIUCSiebel School of Computing and Data Science Dec 1
Studies 3D computer vision and simulation for robotics and autonomous driving, including neural scene reconstruction.
3D vision & neural rendering Embodied & active vision Physics-based simulation & animation2026 Boba: Batched Simulation for Physics-Based Gaussian Digital Twins ECCV 2026 FreeOrbit4D: Training-free Arbitrary Camera Redirection for Monocular Videos via Foreground-Complete 4D Reconstruction SIGGRAPH 41 T1 · 49 papers · 11 members · 42 alumni SaveUS UMDComputer Science
Researches physically based simulation, differentiable physics and multimodal interaction for graphics, robotics and autonomous driving.
Physics-based simulation & animation Embodied & active vision Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 Accelerated Learning with Linear Temporal Logic using Differentiable Simulation ICLR 2026 Adaptive Conformal Guidance for Learning under Uncertainty ICLR 37 T1 · 44 papers · 9 members · 72 alumni SaveUS MITElectrical Engineering and Computer Science Dec 1
Builds AI for the physical world, combining representations, physics simulation, and fabrication hardware such as self-monitoring 3D printers to design…
Physics-based simulation & animation Geometry processing & modeling Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 A Genetic Algorithm for Navigating Synthesizable Molecular Spaces ICLR 2026 Bayesian Post Training Enhancement of Regression Models with Calibrated Rankings ICLR 37 T1 · 80 papers · 8 members · 35 alumni SaveCH EPFLInstitute of Bioengineering (IBI, School of Engineering STI) Dec 1
Leads the Biorobotics Laboratory, studying locomotion control with legged and amphibious robots, central pattern generators and neuromechanical simulation.
Legged locomotion & humanoids Planning, control & multi-robot systems Physics-based simulation & animation2026 Bioinspired multimodal robotics Science Robotics 2026 Centralized brain networks controlling antennal grooming coordination Nature Communications 34 T1 · 92 papers · 11 members · 27 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Bo Zhu Associate Professor Develops physics simulation algorithms for fluids and scientific machine learning for computational design.
Physics-based simulation & animation Geometry processing & modeling Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 A Few-Step Generative Model on Cumulative Flow Maps TOG 2026 Audible World Models: Spatially Aware Sound Generation for 3D Worlds NeurIPS 34 T1 · 48 papers · 8 members · 49 alumni SaveGB UCLDepartment of Computer Science
He Wang Professor of Visual Computing Researches computer graphics, vision and machine learning for human motion, crowd simulation and adversarial robustness.
Physics-based simulation & animation Rendering & appearance Trustworthy & safe ML2026 Deep Motion Warping via Phase-Conditioned Diffusion Autoencoder SIGGRAPH 2026 Graphical X Splatting (GraphiXS): A Graphical Model for 4D Gaussian Splatting under Uncertainty SIGGRAPH 33 T1 · 66 papers · Group size not listed SaveCH ETH ZurichComputer Science (D-INFK)
Leads the Computational Robotics Lab, working on physics-based modelling and control for robots, computational fabrication of robotic devices and character…
Planning, control & multi-robot systems Physics-based simulation & animation Geometry processing & modeling2026 A Unified Homogenization Framework for Straight- and Curved-Crease Origami Materials TOG 2026 IsoGami: Rigid-Deployable Kirigami Materials From Isohedral Tilings SIGGRAPH 31 T1 · 59 papers · 10 members · 17 alumni SaveUS CMURobotics Institute Dec 9
Studies robot learning for perception and manipulation, including deformable objects.
Manipulation & robot learning Robot perception & SLAM Physics-based simulation & animation2026 3D-DLP: Self-supervised 3D Object-centric Scene Representation Learning ICML 2026 Disentangled Point Diffusion for Precise Object Placement ICRA 30 T1 · 39 papers · 15 members · 60 alumni SaveUS Georgia TechSchool of Interactive Computing Dec 15
Sehoon Ha Associate Professor Combines physics-based animation and deep reinforcement learning for legged robot control and computational robot design.
Legged locomotion & humanoids Planning, control & multi-robot systems Physics-based simulation & animation2026 A Design Co-Pilot for Task-Tailored Manipulators IJRR 2026 FiLM-Nav: Efficient and Generalizable Navigation via VLM Fine-tuning ICRA 30 T1 · 51 papers · 14 members · 21 alumni SaveUS USCComputer Science Dec 15
Daniel Seita Assistant Professor of Computer Science Directs the SLURM lab on robot manipulation of deformable objects using learning and sensing.
Manipulation & robot learning Robot perception & SLAM Physics-based simulation & animation2026 Beyond the End-Effector: Learning Whole-Arm Contact Manipulation from Human Demonstrations CoRL 2026 Causally Robust Reward Learning From Reason-Augmented Preference Feedback ICLR 29 T1 · 34 papers · 19 members · 43 alumni SaveDE TUMDepartment of Computer Science
Develops deep learning methods for PDE-based physics simulations, including differentiable physics solvers for fluids.
Physics, climate & scientific computing Physics-based simulation & animation2026 A neural operator framework for data-driven discovery of stability and receptivity in physical systems PNAS 2026 Compute-optimal data scaling for neural surrogates via multi-fidelity training NeurIPS 28 T1 · 41 papers · 11 members · 20 alumni SaveCN ZhejiangSchool of Artificial Intelligence Feb 28
Builds AI agents that act in physical, digital and scientific environments and improve from verifiable feedback, with work on large language models and AI for…
Large language models Physics-based simulation & animation Physics, climate & scientific computing2026 Attention as Selector: Unlocking VLM Attention for Long Document Page Retrieval ACL 2026 GPD: Guided Progressive Distillation for Fast and High-Quality Video Generation IJCAI 27 T1 · 33 papers · Group size not listed SaveCN ZhejiangCollege of Computer Science and Technology Feb 28
Works on intelligent graphics and image processing, covering 3D vision, 3D registration and reconstruction, physical simulation, digital twins and virtual…
Physics-based simulation & animation VR, AR & immersive media 3D vision & neural rendering2026 CG-MLLM: Captioning and Generating 3D Content via Multi-modal Large Language Models ICML 2026 Distributed Affine Body Dynamics with Adaptive Consensus SIGGRAPH 25 T1 · 50 papers · Group size not listed SaveCN TsinghuaDepartment of Electronic Engineering Feb 28
Works on visual representation learning, deformable attention, agentic AI, and continual learning.
Generative & foundation models Physics-based simulation & animation2025 BEVFormer: Learning Bird's-Eye-View Representation From LiDAR-Camera Via Spatiotemporal Transformers TPAMI 2025 Demystify Transformers & Convolutions in Modern Image Deep Networks TPAMI 24 T1 · 24 papers · Group size not listed SaveCH ETH ZurichDepartment of Architecture
Researches computer graphics and computational design, including physics-based simulation, generative models for design and digital fabrication.
Geometry processing & modeling Physics-based simulation & animation Physics, climate & scientific computing2025 Acoustic Reliefs TOG 2025 Automated Design of Compound Lenses with Discrete-Continuous Optimization SIGGRAPH Asia 19 T1 · 25 papers · 9 members SaveUS StanfordComputer Science Dec 8
Ron Dror Cheriton Family Professor Combines molecular simulation and machine learning to study biomolecular structure and drug discovery.
Proteins, drugs & materials Physics, climate & scientific computing Physics-based simulation & animation2026 Mechanism of gating and isoform-specific inhibition in renal CLC chloride channels PNAS 2026 Molecular mechanism of exchange coupling in CLC chloride/proton antiporters Nature Communications 18 T1 · 33 papers · 9 members · 36 alumni Save