Youyi Zhan

Ph.D. Student in CAD & CG · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University

I am currently a Ph.D. student at Zhejiang University, advised by Prof. Tianjia Shao and Prof. Kun Zhou. My research focuses on computer graphics, with particular interests in avatar modeling and animation, as well as garment modeling.

Before joining Zhejiang University, I received my B.S. in Computer Science and Technology from University of Science and Technology of China.

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Experience

2025 – 2026 Visit UCL Computer Science as a visiting student.
2021 – Present Pursuing Ph.D. research in CAD & CG at Zhejiang University.
2020 – 2021 Internship at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), focusing on molecular dynamics research.

Publications

High-Fidelity Mobile Avatars with Pruned Local Blendshapes

Youyi Zhan, He Wang, Tianjia Shao, Kun Zhou

CVPR 2026 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2026

Paper Project Code Demo

Real-time High-fidelity Gaussian Human Avatars with Position-based Interpolation of Spatially Distributed MLPs

Youyi Zhan, Tianjia Shao, Yin Yang, Kun Zhou

CVPR 2025 Highlight IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025

Paper Project Code Video

Interactive Rendering of Relightable and Animatable Gaussian Avatars

Youyi Zhan, Tianjia Shao, He Wang, Yin Yang, Kun Zhou

TVCG 2025 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2025

Paper Project Code Video

Pattern Guided UV Recovery for Realistic Video Garment Texturing

Youyi Zhan, Tuanfeng Y. Wang, Tianjia Shao, Kun Zhou

TVCG 2024 IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2024

Paper

Awards & Honors

2021 Outstanding Graduate, University of Science and Technology of China
2020 1st Prize, ISC High Performance 2020 Student Cluster Competition
2019 Hua-Yu Foundation Scholarship for Undergraduate Students
2019 Silver Prize, Parallel Application Challenge, China Computer Federation (CCF)
2015, 2016 1st Prize, National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (NOIP), Chongqing, China

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology

Zhejiang University

2021 – Present
B.S. in Computer Science and Technology

University of Science and Technology of China

2017 – 2021