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.

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

• 2026-02: I will serve as an International Program Committee (IPC) member for the 25th ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ANIMATION (SCA 2026).
• 2026-02: Two papers are accepted to CVPR 2026! See you in Denver!
• 2026-02: Invited talk at WiMSoCal 2026 in Loyola Marymount University.
• 2026-02: Invited talk at Carnegie Mellon University. Topics: Human-centered Content Creation for Physical AI and Visual Computing.
• 2026-01: Invited talk at Stanford University. Topics: Human-centered Content Creation for Physical AI and Visual Computing.
• 2025-11: Invited talk at University of British Columbia. Topics: Human-centered Content Creation for Physical AI and Visual Computing.
• 2025-11: One paper accepted to 3DV 2026! Congratulations, Xiyang!

Publications

Teaching

• Guest Lecturer, University of British Columbia CPSC532Z: Physics-Informed AI, Nov. 2025

• Guest Lecturer, University of Hong Kong ELEC4547: Emerging Technologies in Virtual and Augmented Reality, Nov. 2023

• Fun fact: Jiayin Lu and I are co-mentoring a group of undergraduate students to develop a new course Math, Code and Art to be offered by the UCLA Mathematics Department in 2026. Topics include spirograph and fractal generation, translating music into visual art, training neural networks to map sound to color, style transfer for paintings, Voronoi-based generative art, algorithmic image collages, and 3D mathematical modeling and 3D printing.

Mentoring

• Xiaoying Wang (Master at USC)
• Rosalinda Chen (Undergrad at UCLA)
• Yanjia Huang (Master at TAMU)
• Yumeng He (Master at USC)
• Yusi Sun (PhD at HKU)
• Zeng Tao (Master at FDU)
• 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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