Chang Yu

I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at Artificial Intelligence & Visual Computing Lab, UCLA Department of Mathematics, co-advised by Prof. Chenfanfu Jiang and Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos. My research has been generously supported by a Meshy Fellowship.

I graduated with honors from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), and I was a Research & Development intern at Taichi Graphics (Now Meshy), where I was fortunate enough to be supervised by Dr. Tiantian Liu.

Resume / Github / LinkedIn / Google Scholar / Email: [email protected]

Research

My research interests lie in robotics, computational physics, and computer graphics. I am focusing on reproducing real-world robotic and environmental behaviors accurately and efficiently with physically-based simulation and high-performance computing on modern graphics architecture.

	Taccel: Scaling Up Vision-based Tactile Robotics via High-performance GPU Simulation Yuyang Li, Wenxin Du, Chang Yu* (equal contributions), Puhao Li, Zihang Zhao, Tengyu Liu, Chenfanfu Jiang^†, Yixin Zhu^†, Siyuan Huang^† Arxiv, 2025 preprint / project page / code / video
	GRIP: A General Robotic Incremental Potential Contact Simulation Dataset for Unified Deformable-Rigid Coupled Grasping Siyu Ma, Wenxin Du, Chang Yu, Ying Jiang (equal contributions), Zeshun Zong, Tianyi Xie, Yunuo Chen, Yin Yang, Xuchen Han, Chenfanfu Jiang Arxiv, 2025 preprint / project page / video
	A Convex Formulation of Material Points and Rigid Bodies with GPU-Accelerated Async-Coupling for Interactive Simulation Chang Yu, Wenxin Du (equal contributions), Zeshun Zong, Alejandro Castro, Chenfanfu Jiang, Xuchen Han Arxiv, 2025 preprint / video
	ARM: Appearance Reconstruction Model for Relightable 3D Generation Xiang Feng, Chang Yu, Zoubin Bi* (equal contributions), Yintong Shang, Feng Gao, Hongzhi Wu, Kun Zhou, Chenfanfu Jiang, Yin Yang. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 Highlight preprint / project page
	Embedded IPC: Fast and Intersection-free Simulation in Reduced Subspace for Robot Manipulation Wenxin Du, Chang Yu (equal contributions), Siyu Ma, Ying Jiang, Zeshun Zong, Ying Yang, Joe Masterjohn, Alejandro Castro, Xuchen Han, Chenfanfu Jiang. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025 preprint / project page / video
	XPBI: Position-Based Dynamics with Smoothing Kernels Handles Continuum Inelasticity *Chang Yu,** Xuan Li* (equal contributions), Lei Lan, Ying Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang. SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024 paper / video
	VR-GS: A Physical Dynamics-Aware Interactive Gaussian Splatting System in Virtual Reality Ying Jiang, Chang Yu, Tianyi Xie, Xuan Li (equal contributions), Yutao Feng, Huamin Wang, Minchen Li, Henry Lau, Feng Gao, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang SIGGRAPH, 2024 paper / project page / video
	MeshTaichi: A Compiler for Efficient Mesh-based Operations Chang Yu, Yi Xu (equal contributions), Ye Kuang, Yuanming Hu, Tiantian Liu ACM Transactions on Graphics [Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia], 2022 paper / project page / video
	Real-time Physics Engine Based on MPM & PBD Yilong Wu, Chang Yu (equal contributions) International Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization (ICVRV), 2020 project page

Miscellaneous

This domain is sponsored by my lovely sweetheart Siyu Ma.

Design and source code from Jon Barron.
Last updated: Apr 17, 2025