Hello! I am currently a PhD student (since 2023) at the AI Thrust, HKUST(GZ), under the guidance of Dr. Yingcong Chen. My research interests are in deep learning and computer vision, with a particular focus on physically based generative models. I lift weights ποΈββοΈ in my spare times.
π₯ News
- 2025.02: Β ππ Our Paper Uni-Renderer: Unifying Rendering and Inverse Rendering Via Dual StreamDiffusion is accepted by CVPR.
- 2025.02: Β ππ Our Paper TransPixeler: Advancing Text-to-Video Generation with Transparency is accepted by CVPR.
- 2024.12: Β ππ Our Paper Uni-Renderer: Unifying Rendering and Inverse Rendering Via Dual StreamDiffusion is released.
- 2024.12: Β ππ Our paper Motion Dreamer: Realizing Physically Coherent Video Generation through Scene-Aware Motion Reasoning is released.
- 2024.05: Β ππ Our paper Defect Spectrum: A Granular Look of Large-Scale Defect Datasets with Rich Semantics is released.
π Publications

Uni-Renderer: Unifying Rendering and Inverse Rendering Via Dual StreamDiffusion
Zhifei Chen$^{\star}$, Tianshuo Xu$^{\star}$, Wenhang Ge$^{\star}$, Leyi Wu, Dongyu Yan, Jing He, Luozhou Wang, Lu Zeng, Shunsi Zhang, Yingcong Chen$^{\dagger}$
- $^{\star}$Equal contribution $^{\dagger}$Corresponding Author

Defect Spectrum: A Granular Look of Large-Scale Defect Datasets with Rich Semantics
Shuai Yang$^{\star}$, ZhiFei Chen$^{\star}$, Pengguang Chen, Xi Fang, Yixun Liang, Shu Liu, Yingcong Chen$^{\dagger}$
- $^{\star}$Equal contribution $^{\dagger}$Corresponding Author

TransPixeler: Advancing Text-to-Video Generation with Transparency
Luozhou Wang, Yijun Li$^{\star}$, Zhifei Chen, Jui-Hsien Wang, Zhifei Zhang, He Zhang, Zhe Lin, Yingcong Chen$^{\dagger}$
- $^{\star}$Project Lead $^{\dagger}$Corresponding Author

Motion Dreamer: Realizing Physically Coherent Video Generation through Scene-Aware Motion Reasoning
Tianshuo Xu$^{\star}$, Zhifei Chen$^{\star}$, Leyi Wu, Hao Lu, Yuying Chen, Lihui Jiang, Bingbing Liu, Yingcong Chen$^{\dagger}$
- $^{\star}$Equal contribution $^{\dagger}$Corresponding Author
π Honors and Awards
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Deanβs List Award for Fall 2017 - 2018
Purdue University | 2017 -
Deanβs List Award for Spring 2017 - 2018
Purdue University | 2017 -
Deanβs List Award for Fall 2016 - 2017
Purdue University | 2016
π Educations
- *2016.08 - 2020.05, Bachelor of Eng. in Computer Engineering, Purdue University.
- *2020.08 - 2022.05, Master of Sci. in Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University.
- *2023.08 - (now), Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, HKUST(GZ).
π¬ Professional Activities
- International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
π» Internships
- 2019.05 - 2020.02, Lorem, China. β>