Chang Yu | 余畅

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.

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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.

Dress-1-to-3: Single Image to Simulation-Ready 3D Outfit with Diffusion Prior and Differentiable Physics
Xuan Li*, Chang Yu*, Wenxin Du*, Ying Jiang* (equal contributions), Tianyi Xie, Yunuo Chen, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
ACM Transactions On Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Gaussian Splashing: Unified Particles for Versatile Motion Synthesis and Rendering
Yutao Feng*, Xiang Feng* (equal contributions), Yintong Shang, Ying Jiang, Chang Yu, Zeshun Zong, Tianjia Shao, Hongzhi Wu, Kun Zhou, Chenfanfu Jiang, Yin Yang.
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Real-time Physics Engine Based on MPM & PBD
Yilong Wu*, Chang Yu* (equal contributions)
International Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization (ICVRV), 2020
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Experience  
University of California, Los Angeles   2023.9 - Present
Graduate Student Researcher at AIVC Lab
Advisor: Prof. Chenfanfu Jiang, Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos
Toyota Research Institute (TRI)   2024.6 - 2025.4
Research & Development Intern
Mentor: Dr. Xuchen Han
Taichi Graphics (Now Meshy AI)   2021.3 - 2023.7
Research & Development Intern
Mentor: Dr. Tiantian Liu
Miscellaneous

This domain is sponsored by my lovely sweetheart Siyu Ma .


Design and source code from Jon Barron.
Last updated: May 5, 2025