YingJiang

I am a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA AIVC Lab, where I work with Chenfanfu Jiang. I completed my PhD in the Data and System Engineering Department at the University of Hong Kong, where I was supervised by Henry Y.K. Lau and worked closely with Hongbo Fu. Before that, I received my B.E. from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China, in July 2018.

We are currently seeking 2–3 visiting students or research interns for Fall 2025 in UCLA AIVC lab to work on projects related to 3D/4D generation, embodied ai, and virtual reality. If you’re interested, feel free to get in touch!

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Email: yingjiang [at] g.ucla.edu, anajymua [at] gmail.com

Research Interest

My primary research interests focus on Human-AI content creation in visual computing—including computer graphics, computer vision, human-computer interaction and embodied AI. My work spans 2D sketching and painting, 3D modeling, and 4D physics-based interactive dynamics. I am particularly passionate about combining physics- and geometry-based principles with generative models to create highly controllable and visually compelling 2D, 3D, and 4D content. A few questions that drive my recent research are:

Human-Centered AI: How can we enable AI to assist humans in better understanding, learning, collabrating and creating?
Embodied AI: How can we leverage LLMs/VLMs to enhance robotic policies and advance human-robot collaboration?
Modeling and Dynamics: How can we apply physics- and geometry-based rules to generate more realistic 3D and 4D assets for VR, AR and embodied AI?

News

2025-05: Invited talk at AWM 2025 in University of Wisconsin, Madison
2025-04: Invited talk at SOCAMS 2025 in University of California, Riverside
2025-04: One paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025; Two papers accepted to CVPR 2025. See you in Nashville!
2025-03: I will serve as an International Program Committee (IPC) member for the 34th ACM Pacific Graphics (PG 2025).
2025-02: Invited talk at WiMSoCal 2025 in California State University, Fullerton
2025-01: I will serve as an Technical Committee (TC) member for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Metaverse (VAM)
2024-12: I will serve as an International Program Committee (IPC) member for the 9th ACM/EG Expressive Symposium (Expressive 2025).

Publications

Dress-1-to-3: Single Image to Simulation-Ready 3D Outfit with Diffusion Prior and Differentiable Physics SIGGRAPH'25
Xuan Li*, Chang Yu*, Wenxin Du*, Ying Jiang*, Tianyi Xie, Yunuo Chen, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

PhysAnimator: Physics-Guided Generative Cartoon Animation CVPR'25
Tianyi Xie, Yiwei Zhao, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

Gaussian splashing: Dynamic fluid synthesis with gaussian splatting CVPR'25
Yutao Feng*, Xiang Feng*, Yintong Shang, Ying Jiang, Chang Yu, Zeshun Zong, Tianjia Shao, Hongzhi Wu, Kun Zhou, Chenfanfu Jiang, Yin Yang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

PhysMotion: Physics-Grounded Dynamics From a Single Image Arxiv'24
Xiyang Tan*, Ying Jiang*, Xuan Li*, Zeshun Zong, Tianyi Xie, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

Embedded IPC: Fast and Intersection-free Simulation in Reduced Subspace for Robot Manipulation ICRA'25
Wenxin Du*, Chang Yu*, Siyu Ma, Ying Jiang, Zeshun Zong, Yin Yang, Joe Masterjohn, Alejandro Castro, Xuchen Han, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

GRIP: A General Robotic Incremental Potential Contact Simulation Dataset for Unified Deformable-Rigid Coupled Grasping Arxiv'25
Siyu Ma, Wenxin Du*, Chang Yu*, Ying Jiang*, Zeshun Zong, Tianyi Xie, Yunuo Chen, Yin Yang, Xuchen Han, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

GarmentDreamer: 3DGS Guided Garment Synthesis with Diverse Geometry and Texture Details 3DV'25
Boqian Li*, Xuan Li*, Ying Jiang*, Tianyi Xie, Feng Gao, Huaimin Wang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

VR-GS: A Physical Dynamics-Aware Interactive Gaussian Splatting System in Virtual Reality SIGGRAPH'24
Ying Jiang*, Chang Yu*, Tianyi Xie*, Xuan Li*, Yutao Feng, Huamin Wang, Minchen Li, Henry Lau, Feng Gao, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

Region-Aware Color Smudging TVCG'24
Ying Jiang, Pengfei Xu, Congyi Zhang, Hongbo Fu, Henry Y K Lau, and Wenping Wang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

HandPainter: 3D Sketching in VR with Hand-based Physical Proxy CHI'21
Ying Jiang, Congyi Zhang, Hongbo Fu, Alberto Cannavò, Fabrizio Lamberti, Henry Y. K. Lau, and Wenping Wang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

An Automatic 3D Scene Generation Pipeline based on a Single 2D Image AVR'21
Alberto Cannavò, Christian Bardella, Lorenzo Semeraro, Federico De Lorenzis, Congyi Zhang, Ying Jiang, Fabrizio Lamberti
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

Mentoring

Yaowei Guo (PhD at UCLA)
Siyu Ma (Master at UCSD)
Xiyang Tan (Undergrad at USTC)
Boqian Li (Undergrad at HUST)
Joy Liu (Undergrad at UCLA)

Academic Service

I serve as a reviewer for Siggraph, Siggraph Asia, TVCG, EG, PG, Computer & Graphics, CADGraphics, TCSVT, CHI, ISMAR, CSCW, DIS, ISMAR, IEEE VR, RAL, 3DV and a program/technical committe member for the 9th ACM/EG Expressive Symposium (Expressive 2025), 34th Pacific Graphics (PG 2025).

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