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Tianyi Xie

Ph.D. Candidate
University of California, Los Angeles
tianyixie77 (at) g.ucla.edu


About Me

I am a PhD candidate at the UCLA AIVC Lab, advised by Prof. Chenfanfu Jiang and Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos. I obtained my M.S. degree in Computer Science from UCLA and my B.Eng. degree in Software Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prior to UCLA, I spent a gap year as a research intern in Bytedance AI Lab.

My current research interests focus on physics-based simulation and generative AI for digital content creation. I am particularly interested in developing models that are physically constrained and controllable for the generation of 2D, 3D, and 4D content.

Selected Publications

  1. Xuan Li*, Chang Yu*, Wenxin Du*, Ying Jiang* (*equal contribution), Tianyi Xie, Yunuo Chen, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
    ACM Transactions On Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2025.

  2. Tianyi Xie, Yiwei Zhao, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.

  3. Siyu Ma*, Wenxin Du*, Chang Yu*, Ying Jiang* (*equal contribution), Zeshun Zong, Tianyi Xie, Yunuo Chen, Yin Yang, Xuchen Han, Chenfanfu Jiang
    arXiv, 2025.

  4. Hritik Bansal^, Zongyu Lin^, Tianyi Xie*, Zeshun Zong*, Michal Yarom~, Yonatan Bitton~ (*equal contribution), Chenfanfu Jiang, Yizhou Sun, Kai-Wei Chang, Aditya Grover
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.

  5. Boqian Li*, Xuan Li*, Ying Jiang*, (*equal contribution), Tianyi Xie, Feng Gao, Huamin Wang, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
    International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2025.

  6. Xiyang Tan*, Ying Jiang*, Xuan Li* (*equal contribution), Zeshun Zong, Tianyi Xie, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
    arXiv, 2024.

  7. Yunuo Chen*, Tianyi Xie*, Zeshun Zong* (*equal contribution), Xuan Li, Feng Gao, Yin Yang, Ying Nian Wu, Chenfanfu Jiang
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

  8. Ying Jiang*, Chang Yu*, Tianyi Xie*, Xuan Li* (*equal contribution), Yutao Feng, Huamin Wang, Minchen Li, Henry Lau, Feng Gao, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
    ACM SIGGRAPH, 2024.

  9. Tianyi Xie*, Zeshun Zong*, Yuxing Qiu*, Xuan Li* (*equal contribution), Yutao Feng, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024. Highlight

  10. Tianyi Xie, Minchen Li, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
    ACM Transactions On Graphics (SIGGRAPH), 2023.

  11. Yunuo Chen, Tianyi Xie, Cem Yuksel, Danny Kaufman, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang, Minchen Li
    ACM SIGGRAPH, 2023.

Experiences

NVIDIA Research, Santa Clara
Research Intern
June, 2025 - Present

Netflix Research, Los Gatos
Research Intern
June, 2024 - Nov, 2024

Bytedance AI Lab, Shanghai
Research Intern
Apr, 2020 - Jul, 2021

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, UCLA
CS174A: Introduction to Computer Graphics, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
Teaching Assistant, UCLA
CS33: Introduction to Computer Organization, Spring 2024
Teaching Assistant, UCLA
PIC20A: Principles of Java Language with Applications, Fall 2023, Winter 2024

Miscellaneous

I am a big fan of Japanese animes. Shinsekai yori (From the New World) is my GOAT. During my free time, I also enjoy fingerstyle guitar playing. Daniel Padim and Kotaro Oshio are two of my favorite guitarists.


Profile Photo credit to Ying Jiang.
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