Yumeng He 何雨濛
PhD StudentUniversity of California, Los Angeles
heyumeng0928@gmail.com
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Last Updated: Nov 9, 2026
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I am a PhD student at the UCLA AIVC Lab, co-supervised by Prof. Chenfanfu Jiang and Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos. Previously, I obtained my Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, supervised by Prof. Jernej Barbič, and my Honours Bachelor of Science degree with High Distinction from the University of Toronto, where I double-majored in Mathematics and Computer Science.
Research Interests
My research interests are computer vision, graphics, and robotics, with a focus on physical AI, object/scene generation, articulated and kinematic asset modeling, physics-based simulation, real-to-sim pipelines, and policy learning.
I am open to research collaborations. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in working together!
News
- Nov 2026: Our paper VisHintPrompt is accepted by IEEE TVCG!
- Sep 2026: Our paper One Spool at a Time is accepted by SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Poster!
- Aug 2026: Our paper VCShell and VABD are accepted by TOG (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2026!
- Jun 2026: Our paper SeeClear is accepted by ECCV 2026!
- Jun 2026: Our paper SPARK wins the CVPR Compute Transparency Champion!
- Apr 2026: Our paper SPARK is accepted by CVPR 2026 as an oral presentation!
- Mar 2026: Our paper Birth of a Painting is conditionally accepted to ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH)!
- Mar 2026: I am admitted to the UCLA PhD program!
Experience
Envora Inc. | Research Intern
Aug 2026 - Present
UCLA AIVC Lab | Visiting Student
Jun 2025 - Jul 2026
Supervisor: Prof. Chenfanfu Jiang, Dr. Ying Jiang
USC RESL Lab | Research Assistant
Jul 2025 - Dec 2025
Supervisor: Prof. Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Dr. Jeremy Morgan
HCL Canada Inc. | Software Developer Intern
Aug 2022 - Aug 2023
Publications & Manuscripts
ArticulateArena: A Metric for Articulated Kinematics
Yumeng He, Yongfei She, Huanyu Chen, Chun Yuan, Peihao Li, Joseph Masterjohn, Yin Yang, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang
arXiv, 2026
[Project Page] [arXiv] [Code]
One Spool at a Time: Fabricable Multicolor String Art
Qiyang Chen, Yumeng He, Jiayin Lu, Yin Yang, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang
SIGGRAPH Asia Poster, 2026
Beyond Kirchhoff–Love: A Volumetric Approach to Thin-Shell Mechanics
Huanyu Chen, Yumeng He, Jernej Barbic
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2026
[Project Page] [Paper]
Vibrational Affine Body Dynamics
Haoyang Shi, Yumeng He, Sheldon Andrews, Chenfanfu Jiang, Kui Wu, Yin Yang
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia), 2026
[Project Page] [Paper] [Code]
Fishbone: From One 3D Asset to a Million Controllable Edits
Yumeng He, Xiaoying Wang, Peihao Li, Yanjia Huang, Joe Masterjohn, Jiajun Wu, Leonidas Guibas, Yin Yang, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang
arXiv, 2026
[Project Page] [arXiv]
SeeClear: Reliable Transparent Object Depth Estimation via Generative Opacification
Xiaoying Wang*, Yumeng He*, Jingkai Shi*, Jiayin Lu, Yin Yang, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
[Project Page] [arXiv] [Code] [Paper]
VisHintPrompt: A Visual Hint Prompting Strategy for Numerical Inference from Charts
Fengling Zheng, Yongle Peng, Zi Rong, Chenyun Cai, Yumeng He, Dekun Qian, Zhiguang Zhou, Yigang Wang, Yong Wang
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2026
SPARK: Sim-ready Part-level Articulated Reconstruction with VLM Knowledge
Yumeng He*, Ying Jiang*, Jiayin Lu*, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
Oral (top 3.45%) CVPR Compute Transparency Champion
[Project Page] [arXiv] [Code] [Paper]
VoroLight: Learning Voronoi Surface Meshes via Sphere Intersection
Jiayin Lu*, Ying Jiang*, Yumeng He*, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
arXiv, 2025
[Project Page] [arXiv]
Birth of a Painting: Differentiable Brushstroke Reconstruction
Ying Jiang*, Jiayin Lu*, Yunuo Chen*, Yumeng He, Kui Wu, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
Conditionally Accepted by ACM Transactions On Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2026
[Project Page] [arXiv]
Master's Thesis
From Kirchhoff-Love Shells to Volumetrically Consistent Shells: Understanding the Limitations of Classical Thin-Shell Theory and Developing the Two-Mode VC Shells
Yumeng He, Jernej Barbic
Master's Thesis, 2026
Committee: Jernej Barbic, Chenfanfu Jiang, Carter Slocum
[Paper]
Service & Activities
- Reviewer: SIGGRAPH Asia, Pacific Graphics, TVCG, CAVW
- Special Session Organizer: ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2026 [Website] [Art Gallery]
- Workshop Volunteer: SIGGRAPH 2026 (website development, photography, videography) [Website]
USC Courses
- USC CSCI699 Robotic Perception, Fall 2025 [Notes]
- USC CSCI566 Deep Learning and Its Applications, Fall 2025 [Project Proposal] [Mid Report] [Final Report] [Poster]
- USC CSCI580 3D Graphics and Rendering, Spring 2025 [Report] [Presentation Slides]
- USC CSCI520 Computer Animation and Simulation, Spring 2025 [Notes] [A1] [A2] [A3]
- USC CSCI420 Computer Graphics, Fall 2024 [A1] [A2] [A3]
- USC CSCI570 Analysis of Algorithms, Fall 2024