Yihao Meng 蒙祎昊

Ph.D. Candidate at HKUST • Video Generation & World Models

Portrait of Yihao Meng

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, advised by Prof. Huamin Qu. I am a recipient of the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS). I received my B.S. in Artificial Intelligence (Honors Class, Qian Xuesen College) from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2023.

My research focuses on video generation and world models. I am currently a Research Scientist Intern at ByteDance Seed.

Industry Experience

Aug 2026 – Present

ByteDance Seed

Research Scientist Intern
Led by Haoqi Fan.

May 2026 – Aug 2026

NVIDIA Spatial Intelligence Lab

Research Scientist Intern • Santa Clara, California (NVIDIA Headquarters)
Led by Prof. Sanja Fidler.

Jun 2024 – Apr 2026

Ant Research (LingBot)

Research Scientist Intern • World models and video generation
Mentored by Hao Ouyang and Yujun Shen.

News

  • 08/2026: Joined ByteDance Seed as a Research Scientist Intern.
  • 08/2026: CameraAnything was selected as an ECCV 2026 Spotlight.
  • 05/2026: Joined NVIDIA Spatial Intelligence Lab as a Research Scientist Intern at NVIDIA Headquarters.
  • 05/2026: Released CausalCine, a real-time autoregressive model for multi-shot video narratives.
  • 04/2026: HoloCine was selected as a CVPR 2026 Highlight.
  • 01/2026: Released LingBot-World, an open-source world model.
  • 09/2025: Dynamic Typography was selected as an ICCV 2025 Best Paper Candidate.
  • 06/2025: Two papers were accepted to ICCV 2025; Dynamic Typography was selected for an oral presentation.
  • 02/2025: AniDoc was accepted to CVPR 2025.

Selected Publications

Selected Awards

Education

2023 – Present

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Huamin Qu

2019 – 2023

Xi'an Jiaotong University

B.S. in Artificial Intelligence · Honors Class, Qian Xuesen College
GPA Rank: Top 1% · National Scholarship