Yihang Tao | 陶祎航

I am currently pursuing my PhD degree in the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Yuguang "Michael" Fang. Before that, I received my B.S. degree from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2021, and my M.S. degree from the School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2024. My research lies at the intersection of World Model, Image/Video Generation, and Multimodal Understanding, with a broader interest in Spatial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Generative AI.

"My long-term goal is to build a World Model for Spatial Intelligence: a unified representation that can understand 3D scenes, capture their dynamics, and support controllable generation of how the world may evolve."

Towards this goal, my research centers on two complementary thrusts: Multimodal Understanding and Image/Video Generation. The former emphasizes perception and reasoning over language, vision, and geometry, while the latter studies controllable and consistent visual synthesis with extensions to editing and restoration.