Portrait of Yifan Liu

Yifan Liu

Ph.D. Candidate @ CUHK

liuyifan365[at]gmail.com

About

I am a final-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), supervised by Prof. Yixuan Yuan. Prior to that, I received my B.Eng. in Electronic Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2021. During my Ph.D., I have been fortunate to work with Dr. Zhenwei Wang and Dr. Tengfei Wang at the Tencent HY 3D Generation Team. I have also been fortunate to collaborate with industry, particularly with Tencent HY and ByteDance Seed.

My research focuses on video and 3D world models, 3D reconstruction, and generative AI, with an emphasis on building generalizable systems for immersive and interactive world understanding and generation.

I'm always open to related discussions and collaborations. If you are interested in my work, please feel free to contact me.

Education

Experience

Open-Source Projects

HY-World 1.1

Core Contributor, 2025

A 3D world reconstruction framework capable of producing immersive, explorable, and interactive scenes from arbitrary-view inputs.

Selected Publications [full list]

(*equal contribution)

Selected Honors

Academic Services

Miscellaneous

Curiosity and enthusiasm shape both my research and my life. I'm also passionate about basketball🏀, hiking⛰️, swimming🏊‍♂️, table tennis🏓, and badminton🏸.