Hi, I'm Yinghao!
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the HKUST. Previously, I am staff research scientist in Robbyant, leading a research group working on world models and embodied AI. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University working with Prof. Gordon Wetzstein.My current research focuses on 3D computer vision, generative AI and embodied AI. I am particularly interested in developing powerful generative models to perceive and generate compact representations of environments and leverage them to understand, interact with, and reason about the physical world.
Tel: (852) 2358 8771
Office: Room 2542 (via Lift 25-26)
Academic Building, HKUST
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
I'm also looking for Ph.D. students, research assistants at HKUST who are interested in 3DV/Gen AI/Embodied AI. Please feel free to drop me an email with your CV.
I'm looking for full-time research scientists/engineers and research interns at Robbyant to work on world models and embodied AI.
Recent News
- 2026. 01: We release LingBot-VA, the first autoregressive video-action world modeling for robot control.
- 2026. 01: We release LingBot-World to advance open-source world models.
- 2026. 01: We release LingBot-Depth on masked depth modeling for general spatial perception.
- 2025. 06: I leave Stanford and start a new journey at Robbyant!
Incoming Students
Interns
Publications (show recent / show selected / show all by date / show all by topic)
Current Research Topics:
Video World Modeling
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Embodied AI
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3D Foundation Model
Past Research Topic:
3D
Generative Models
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Neural
Scene Representation
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Image
Generation & Editing
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Visual Understanding
Invited Talks
- [03/2026] MSRA Visual Computing, Host by Dr. Jiaolong Yang
- [03/2026] VALSE Seminar, Host by Prof. Lin Gao
- [03/2026] Shanghai AI Lab, Host by Dr. Tai Wang
- [02/2026] Tsinghua University, Host by Prof. Hao Zhao
- [02/2026] Peking University, Host by Prof. Baoquan Chen
- [11/2025] University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Host by Prof. Lin Gao, Prof. Shiguang Shan
- [08/2025] Southern University of Science and Technology, Host by Prof. Boyu Zhou
- [08/2025] Hefei University of Technology, Host by Prof. Lechao Cheng
- [06/2025] Zhejiang University, Host by Prof. Yiyi Liao
- [06/2025] Zhejiang University, Host by Prof. Sida Peng
- [06/2025] Zhejiang University, Host by Prof. Jiming Chen, Prof. Qi Ye
- [05/2025] Stanford SCIEN Seminar, Host by Prof. Gordon Wetzstein
- [04/2025] China 3DV, Host by Prof. Yebin Liu
- [04/2025] University of Chicago, Host by Prof. Michael Maire
- [03/2025] UNC, Host by Prof. Mingyu Ding
- [01/2025] HKUST, Host by Prof. Qifeng Chen
Experiences
Staff Research Scientist, Robbyant
Jun. 2025 - Mar. 2026
Professional Activities
- Area Chair for CVPR 2026, 3DV 2026, SIGGRAPH ASIA 2025, SIGGRAPH 2026
- Reviewer for CVPR, ECCV, AAAI, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, SIGGRAPH, TVCG, SIGGRAPH ASIA
Past Mentored Students
- Zifan Shi Research Scientist at Adobe
- Qihang Zhang Senior Research Scientist at Robbyant
- Ruizhi Shao Senior Research Scientist at Rhoda AI
- Tong Wu Postdoc at Stanford
- Xian Liu Research Scientist at XAI
- Jianyuan Wang Ph.D at VGG Group & CVPR Best Paper
- Shangzhan Zhang Ph.D at VGG Group
- Hao He Ph.D at CUHK MMLab
- Qingyan Bai Ph.D at HKUST
- Shengqu Cai Ph.D at Stanford
- Zhengfei Kuang Ph.D at Stanford
- Hansheng Chen Ph.D at Stanford
- Yang Zheng Ph.D at Stanford