Yu Zhang (张宇)

I am a PhD student at MMLab@NTU, Nanyang Technological University, advised by Prof. Xingang Pan. Previously I worked at the University of Utah, MeshyAI (Taichi Graphics) and Tencent Games. I earned my bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from Beijing Normal University, advised by Prof. Zhongke Wu.

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Research

I am working on the intersection of physically based animation and AI.
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An Efficient Multilevel Preconditioned Nonlinear Conjugate Gradient Method for Incremental Potential Contact
Yu Zhang, Xing Shen, Kemeng Huang, Wei Chen, Yin Yang, Taku Komura, Tiantian Liu, Xingang Pan
arXiv preprint, 2026
arXiv
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3DGS2: Near Second-order Converging 3D Gaussian Splatting
Lei Lan, Tianjia Shao, Zixuan Lu, Yu Zhang, Chenfanfu Jiang, Yin Yang
SIGGRAPH 2025 (Conference Track)
Project Page / arXiv


Design and source code from Jon Barron's website