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 3D 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 is organized into two closely related thrusts: World Understanding and World Generation. The first focuses on collaborative perception and 3D understanding, while the second focuses on controllable image/video generation and generative restoration.