I am a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA AIVC Lab, where I work with Chenfanfu Jiang. I completed my PhD in the Data and System Engineering Department at the University of Hong Kong, where I was supervised by Henry Y.K. Lau and worked closely with Hongbo Fu. Before that, I received my B.E. from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China, in July 2018.

Email: yingjiang [at] g.ucla.edu, anajymua [at] gmail.com

Research Interest

My primary research interests focus on Human-AI content creation in visual computing—including computer graphics, computer vision, human-computer interaction and embodied AI. My work spans 2D sketching and painting, 3D modeling, and 4D physics-based interactive dynamics. I am particularly passionate about combining physics- and geometry-based principles with generative models to create highly controllable and visually compelling 2D, 3D, and 4D content. A few questions that drive my recent research are:

• Human-Centered AI: How can we enable AI to assist humans in better understanding, learning, collabrating and creating?
• Embodied AI: How can we leverage LLMs/VLMs to enhance robotic policies and advance human-robot collaboration?
• Modeling and Dynamics: How can we apply physics- and geometry-based rules to generate more realistic 3D and 4D assets for VR, AR and embodied AI?

News

• 2025-11: One paper accepted to 3DV 2026! Congratulations, Xiyang!
• 2025-05: Invited talk at AWM 2025 in University of Wisconsin, Madison
• 2025-04: Invited talk at SOCAMS 2025 in University of California, Riverside
• 2025-04: One paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025; Two papers accepted to CVPR 2025. See you in Nashville!
• 2025-03: I will serve as an International Program Committee (IPC) member for the 34th ACM Pacific Graphics (PG 2025).
• 2025-02: Invited talk at WiMSoCal 2025 in California State University, Fullerton
• 2025-01: I will serve as an Technical Committee (TC) member for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Metaverse (VAM)
• 2024-12: I will serve as an International Program Committee (IPC) member for the 9th ACM/EG Expressive Symposium (Expressive 2025).

Publications

SPARK: Sim-ready Part-level Articulated Reconstruction with VLM Knowledge arXiv'25
Yumeng He*, Ying Jiang*, Jiayin Lu*, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

Birth of a Painting: Differentiable Brushstroke Reconstruction arXiv'25
Ying Jiang*, Jiayin Lu*, Yunuo Chen*, Yumeng He, Kui Wu, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

VoroLight: Learning Quality Volumetric Voronoi Meshes from General Inputs arXiv'25
Jiayin Lu*, Ying Jiang*, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

AnimaMimic: Imitating 3D Animation from Video Priors arXiv'25
Tianyi Xie*, Yunuo Chen*, Yaowei Guo*, Yin Yang, Bolei Zhou, Demetri Terzopoulos, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

Dress-1-to-3: Single Image to Simulation-Ready 3D Outfit with Diffusion Prior and Differentiable Physics SIGGRAPH'25
Xuan Li*, Chang Yu*, Wenxin Du*, Ying Jiang*, Tianyi Xie, Yunuo Chen, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

PhysAnimator: Physics-Guided Generative Cartoon Animation CVPR'25
Tianyi Xie, Yiwei Zhao, Ying Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

Gaussian splashing: Dynamic fluid synthesis with gaussian splatting CVPR'25
Yutao Feng*, Xiang Feng*, Yintong Shang, Ying Jiang, Chang Yu, Zeshun Zong, Tianjia Shao, Hongzhi Wu, Kun Zhou, Chenfanfu Jiang, Yin Yang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

PhysMotion: Physics-Grounded Dynamics From a Single Image 3DV'26
Xiyang Tan*, Ying Jiang*, Xuan Li*, Zeshun Zong, Tianyi Xie, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

Embedded IPC: Fast and Intersection-free Simulation in Reduced Subspace for Robot Manipulation ICRA'25
Wenxin Du*, Chang Yu*, Siyu Ma, Ying Jiang, Zeshun Zong, Yin Yang, Joe Masterjohn, Alejandro Castro, Xuchen Han, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

GRIP: A General Robotic Incremental Potential Contact Simulation Dataset for Unified Deformable-Rigid Coupled Grasping IROS'25
Siyu Ma, Wenxin Du*, Chang Yu*, Ying Jiang*, Zeshun Zong, Tianyi Xie, Yunuo Chen, Yin Yang, Xuchen Han, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

GarmentDreamer: 3DGS Guided Garment Synthesis with Diverse Geometry and Texture Details 3DV'25
Boqian Li*, Xuan Li*, Ying Jiang*, Tianyi Xie, Feng Gao, Huaimin Wang, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

VR-GS: A Physical Dynamics-Aware Interactive Gaussian Splatting System in Virtual Reality SIGGRAPH'24
Ying Jiang*, Chang Yu*, Tianyi Xie*, Xuan Li*, Yutao Feng, Huamin Wang, Minchen Li, Henry Lau, Feng Gao, Yin Yang, Chenfanfu Jiang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

Region-Aware Color Smudging TVCG'24
Ying Jiang, Pengfei Xu, Congyi Zhang, Hongbo Fu, Henry Y K Lau, and Wenping Wang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

HandPainter: 3D Sketching in VR with Hand-based Physical Proxy CHI'21
Ying Jiang, Congyi Zhang, Hongbo Fu, Alberto Cannavò, Fabrizio Lamberti, Henry Y. K. Lau, and Wenping Wang
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

An Automatic 3D Scene Generation Pipeline based on a Single 2D Image AVR'21
Alberto Cannavò, Christian Bardella, Lorenzo Semeraro, Federico De Lorenzis, Congyi Zhang, Ying Jiang, Fabrizio Lamberti
[PDF] [Project Page] [Demo]

Mentoring

• Rosalinda Chen (Undergrad at UCLA)
• Yanjia Huang (Master at TAMU)
• Yumeng He (Master at USC)
• Yusi Sun (PhD at HKU)
• Jaeah Lee (Master at SNU)
• Zeng Tao (Master at FDU)
• Yaowei Guo (PhD at UCLA)
• Siyu Ma (Master at UCSD)
• Xiyang Tan (Undergrad at USTC)
• Boqian Li (Undergrad at HUST)
• Joy Liu (Undergrad at UCLA)

Academic Service

I serve as a reviewer for Siggraph, Siggraph Asia, TVCG, EG, PG, Computer & Graphics, CADGraphics, TCSVT, CHI, ISMAR, CSCW, DIS, ISMAR, IEEE VR, RAL, 3DV and a program/technical committe member for the 9th ACM/EG Expressive Symposium (Expressive 2025), 34th Pacific Graphics (PG 2025).

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