Ziyue Peng
About Me
I’m an incoming Ph.D. student in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, where I will be advised by Prof. Qixing Huang and Prof. Brandon Y. Feng. I am currently a senior undergraduate majoring in Robotic Engineering at Zhejiang University.
During my research internship at UT Austin, I also collaborated with Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj and Prof. Etienne Vouga. Previously, I was an exchange student at the University of Toronto, where I worked with Prof. Lueder Kahrs. At Zhejiang University, I worked with Prof. Wei Chen and Prof. Yuanchao Shu.
Research Interests
I am broadly interested in Computer Vision and Graphics, with a particular focus on Physical Understanding. My research explores how AI systems can infer physical properties from video data, how to leverage this knowledge to equip visual foundation models with physical reasoning, how incorporating physical laws can enhance the realism and consistency of generative models, and how neural networks can accelerate physical simulation while narrowing the sim-to-real gap.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
B.Eng. in Robotic Engineering (Honors)
Exchange Student, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Publications
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SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2026. -
ECCV
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026 -
T-RO
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2026.