Zhiwen Fan

Educational Background

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin – 2025

- Multi-modal learning
- Generative artificial intelligence (AI)
- Robotics
- Spatial computing

NVIDIA Academic Grant Program, 2026
Top Area Chair, NeurIPS, 2025
Best Paper Award, AI for Content Creation Workshop, CVPR, 2025
Best Paper Award, Multimodal Foundation Models for Spatial Intelligence Workshop, ACM Multimedia, 2025
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, 2022

Fan, Z., Zhang, J., Li, R., Zhang, J., Chen, R., Hu, H., Wang, K., Qu, H., Wang, D., Yan, Z., and Xu, H. "VLM-3R: Vision-Language Models Augmented with Instruction-Aligned 3D Reconstruction," IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
Cong, W., et al. “Can Test-Time Scaling Improve World Foundation Model?,” Second Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2025.
Fan, Z., Zhang, J., Li, R., Zhang, J., Chen, R., Hu, H., Wang, K., Qu, H., Wang, D., Yan, Z., and Xu, H. "VLM-3R: Vision-Language Models Augmented with Instruction-Aligned 3D Reconstruction," IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
Hu, H., et al. “Expressive Gaussian Human Avatars from Monocular RGB Video,” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), vol. 37, pp. 5646–5660, 2024.
Yu, W., et al. “X²-Gaussian: 4D Radiative Gaussian Splatting for Continuous-Time Tomographic Reconstruction,” IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.