Principal Investigator

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Taku Komura

Professor

Computer Science

Physical Simulation, Character Animation, 3D Modelling

Graduate Students

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Dafei Qin

PhD, Sep. 2020 – 2026 (expected).

Computer Science

Facial Animation, Neural Rendering

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Mingyi Shi

PhD, Nov. 2020 – 2026 (expected).

Computer Science

3D Human Moton, Generative AI

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Jintao Lu

PhD, since Sep. 2021.

Computer Science

Human Scene Interaction, Motion Control

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Kemeng Huang

PhD, Sep. 2022 – 2026 (expected).

Computer Science

Physical Simulation, High Performance Computing

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Huancheng Lin

M.Phil., since Sep. 2022.

Computer Science

Physical Simulation, Computer Graphics, High Performance Computing

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Wenjia Wang

PhD, Jan. 2023 – 2026 (expected).

Computer Science

Human Pose Estimation, Humanoid Control, Embodied AI

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Zhouyingcheng Liao

PhD, since Jan. 2023.

Computer Science

Neural Cloth Simulation, Character Animation

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Leo Ho

MPhil, since Aug. 2024.

Computer Science

Digital Humans, Motion Synthesis

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Yuke Lou

PhD, since Sep. 2023.

Computer Science

Motion Generation, Character Animation, 3D Generation

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Xiaohan Ye

PhD, since Sep. 2023.

Computer Science

Physics Simulation, Motion Control

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Huaijin Pi

PhD, since Sep. 2024.

Computer Science

Computer Graphics, 3D Vision, Character Animation

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Rui Xu

PhD, since Sep. 2024.
Co-supervised by Prof. Wenping Wang.

Computer Science

Geometry Processing, 3D Vision, Generative Models

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Xuan Wang

PhD, since Sep. 2024.

Computer Science

Physical Simulation, GPU Algorithms

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Liang Pan

PhD, since Sep. 2025.

Computer Science

Character Animation, Human-Scene Interaction, Reinforcement Learning

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Tianyang Xue

PhD, since Sep. 2025.

Computer Science

Geometry Processing, Microstructure Design, Computer Graphics

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Wei Liu

MPhil, since Sep. 2025.

Computer Science

Character Animation

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Zipeng Li

PhD, since Sep. 2025.

Computer Science

Character Animation

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Litian Zhang

PhD, since May 2026.

Computer Science

Physics-based Simulation, Computational Physics, Computer Graphics

Research Staff

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Jingyuan Liu

Postdoc

Computer Science

Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction

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Deshan Gong

Postdoc

Computer Science

Physics-based Simulation, Computer Graphics, Differentiable Physics, Cloth Simulation

Research Assistant

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Boyang Yu

Research Assistant

Computer Science

Computer Graphics

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Bowen Ren

Research Assistant, since Nov. 2025.

Computer Science

Computer Graphics, Physics-based Animation

Alumni

Postdoctoral Alumni

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Linxu Fan

PHD, since Nov. 2019.

Computer Science

Physical Simulation

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Floyd M. Chitalu

Senior researcher, since Nov. 2022.

Computer Science

Physical Simulation

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Yinghao Huang

Postdoc, since Aug. 2023.

Computer Science

Human Pose Estimation, Human Motion Generation

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Chen Peng

Postdoc, since Sep. 2023.

Computer Science

Physically-Based Animation, Fluid Simulation

PhD Alumni

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He Zhang

PhD (University of Edinburgh), Sep. 2017 - Apr. 2022.

Computer Science

Physics-based Character Control, Dexterous Manipulation, Reinforcement Learning

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Sebastian Starke

PhD Alumni (University of Edinburgh), 2017-2022. Now at Meta

Informatics

Character Animation, Deep Learning, Computer Graphics

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Daniel Holden

PhD Alumni (University of Edinburgh), 2013-2017. Now at Epic Games

Computer Science

Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Character Animation

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He Wang

PhD and Postdoc Alumni (University of Edinburgh), 2017-2021. Now Assistant Professor at UCL

Computer Science

Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Co-supervised Student Alumni

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Zhiyang Dou

MPhil, Aug. 2020 - Apr. 2026.
Co-supv. by Prof. Wenping Wang.

Computer Science

Character Animation, Geometric Computing

Research Assistant Alumni

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Yifan Wu

Research Assistant

Computer Science

Computer Graphics, Physical Simulation

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Xinyu Lu

Research Assistant, since Sep. 2023.

Computer Science

Physically-Based Animation, Simulation