Kaiwen Zhang

Hi! I'm currently a first-year Ph.D. student at MMLab@NTU, advised by Prof. Xingang Pan. Previously, I received my B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Technology with highest honors from Tsinghua University in 2025. I also had a broad research internship experience at Bytedance / Tiktok US, Horizon Robotics and Shanghai AI Lab. My research is supported by the prestigious Nanyang President's Graduate Scholarship.

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Research

My primary research interests lie in computer vision and generative models, with a specific focus on video generation and world models. My long-term goal is to build knowledgeable, controllable, and creative machine intelligence that possess a deep understanding of the physical world and have the capability to imagine beyond the world.

	StoryMem: Multi-shot Long Video Storytelling with Memory Kaiwen Zhang, Liming Jiang, Angtian Wang, Jacob Zhiyuan Fang, Tiancheng Zhi, Qing Yan, Hao Kang, Xin Lu, Xingang Pan *Under Review*
	Epona: Autoregressive Diffusion World Model for Autonomous Driving Kaiwen Zhang, Zhenyu Tang, Xiaotao Hu, Xingang Pan, Xiaoyang Guo, Yuan Liu, Jingwei Huang, Li Yuan, Qian Zhang, Xiaoxiao Long, Xun Cao, Wei Yin (Equal contribution) ICCV 2025* Project Page / Paper / Code
	DiffMorpher: Unleashing the Capability of Diffusion Models for Image Morphing Kaiwen Zhang, Yifan Zhou, Xudong Xu, Xingang Pan^✉, Bo Dai (^✉Corresponding author) *CVPR 2024* Project Page / Paper / Code
	A Survey: Learning Embodied Intelligence from Physical Simulators and World Models Xiaoxiao Long, Qingrui Zhao, Kaiwen Zhang, Zihao Zhang, Dingrui Wang, Yumeng Liu, Zhengjie Shu, Yi Lu, Shouzheng Wang, Xinzhe Wei, Wei Li, Wei Yin, Yao Yao, Jia Pan, Qiu Shen, Ruigang Yang, Xun Cao, Qionghai Dai (Equal contribution) Preprint 2025* Paper / Github

Experience

	Research Intern, Bytedance / TikTok Intelligent Creation Lab, San Jose, US 2025.07 - 2025.12 Collaborators: Liming Jiang, Xin Lu, Angtian Wang, Tiancheng Zhi, etc.
	Research Intern, Horizon Robotics, Beijing, China 2024.09 - 2025.06 Collaborators: Prof. Xiaoxiao Long, Wei Yin, etc.
	Research Intern, Shanghai AI Lab, Shanghai, China 2023.07 - 2024.01 Collaborators: Prof. Xingang Pan, Prof. Bo Dai, etc.
	Research Assistant, Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 2022.09 - 2023.06 Collaborators: Prof. Jie Tang, Wenyi Hong, etc.

Honors & Awards

Nanyang President's Graduate Scholarship, 2025
Outstanding Graduate of Beijing (Top 3%), 2025
Outstanding Graduate of Tsinghua University (Top 10%), 2025
Academic Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2024
China Computer Federation (CCF) Outstanding Student, 2024
SenseTime Scholarship (25 undergraduates all over China), 2024
National Scholarship (Highest honor for undergraduates in China), 2023
Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2022
Meritorious Winner, American Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2022

Design and source code from Jon Barron's website.