I am a third-year PhD student at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, where I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Angela Yao. During my PhD, I’m also fortunate to work with NVIDIA Efficient AI under Dr. Yuyang Zhao and Professor Song Han. I graduated from the same faculty’s Turing Programme with Highest Distinction in Computer Science.
My research goal is to develop efficient and controllable visual-centric world models. I am particularly interested in understanding and modeling visual signals, as they are easy to obtain and can serve as observations of the real world with minimal inductive bias. I am currently building something in stealth mode.
Previously, I co-founded Inceptoria (formerly Huijian Cloud) in Guangzhou, building AI agent systems for clients across Mainland China, Malaysia, Thailand, and Australia. I was also a Fellow of MiraclePlus in 2021.
News
- 2026.08: We will release our latest work WoRL soon.
- 2026.05: Released SANA-Streaming, a real-time streaming video editing framework.
- 2026.02: Our Work InfoTok has been selected as ICLR ORAL!! We will release our tokenizer checkpoints soon.
- 2026.01: reAR and Interp3D are accepted by ICLR!
- 2026.01: Started my internship with the NVIDIA Efficient AI Team!
- 2026.01: Released InfoTok, a study on efficient video tokenization, in collaboration with NVIDIA Imaginary Lab.
- 2025.12: Released two papers on visual autoregressive models: VA-π and reAR.
- 2025.12: Released ReSlide, a tool for re-editing image-based PPTs generated by NotebookLM or Nano Banana.
- 2025.08: Honored to receive the Research Achievement Award at NUS!
- 2025.05: Honored to be NUS Search Committee Member!
- 2025.03: Released Conceptrol, a study on concept control for zero-shot personalized image generation.
- 2025.01: EvA accepted to ICLR 2025!
- 2024.09: AID accepted to NeurIPS 2024!
- 2024.05: Presented a research talk on generative models at the Huawei Singapore Harmony Software Technology Workshop.
- 2023.10: Honored to receive the Research Incentive Award at NUS!
- 2023.06: Honored to receive the NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize!
- 2023.02: PoseIG accepted to CVPR 2023!
Publications
Yuyang Zhao*, Yicheng Pan*, Qiyuan He*, Jincheng Yu*, Junsong Chen*, Tian Ye, Haozhe Liu, Enze Xie, Song Han
Haotian Ye*, Qiyuan He*, Jiaqi Han, Puheng Li, Jiaojiao Fan, Zekun Hao, Fitsum Reda, Yogesh Balaji, Huayu Chen, Sheng Liu, Angela Yao, James Zou, Stefano Ermon, Haoxiang Wang, Ming-Yu Liu
Xinyao Liao*, Qiyuan He*, Kai Xu, Xiaoye Qu, Yicong Li, Wei Wei, Angela Yao
Qiyuan He, Yicong Li, Haotian Ye, Jinghao Wang, Xinyao Liao, Pheng-Ann Heng, Stefano Ermon, James Zou, Angela Yao
Xiaolu Liu, Yicong Li, Qiyuan He, Jiayin Zhu, Wei Ji, Angela Yao, Jianke Zhu
Jiayin Zhu, Guoji Fu, Xiaolu Liu, Qiyuan He, Yicong Li, Angela Yao
Qiyuan He, Angela Yao
Qiyuan He, Jinghao Wang, Ziwei Liu, Angela Yao
Qiyuan He, Kai Xu, Angela Yao
Qiyuan He*, Linlin Yang*, Kerui Gu, Qiuxia Lin, Angela Yao
Selected Awards
- NUS Search Commitee Member, 2026
- NUS Search Commitee Member, 2025
- NUS Research Achievement Award, 2025
- NUS Research Incentive Award, 2023
- Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Prize, 2023
- Certificate of Distinction in the AI Focus Area, 2022