About me
Hi! I am currently a research intern at Bytedance / Tiktok Intelligent Creation Lab at San Jose, US, working with Dr. Liming Jiang and Dr. Xin Lu. I am also an incoming PhD student at MMLab@NTU, fortunately to be advised by Prof. Xingang Pan. I obtained my B.Eng. degree from Tsinghua University (GPA: 3.95/4.0) in June, 2025, majoring in Computer Science and Technology. Previously, I also interned at Horizon Robotics and Shanghai AI Lab, working closely with Prof. Xiaoxiao Long and Dr. Wei Yin.
My primary research interests lie in computer vision, with a specific focus on generative models and their applications to visual content creation and world model development. My long-term goal is to build knowledgeable, controllable, efficient and creative machine intelligence using generative models that possess a deep understanding of the physical world and have the capability to imagine beyond the world.
Contact: sze68zkw@gmail.com
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Publications & Preprints
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)
Epona: Autoregressive Diffusion World Model for Autonomous Driving ICCV 2025
Kaiwen Zhang, Yifan Zhou, Xudong Xu, Xingang Pan✉, Bo Dai. (✉Corresponding author)
DiffMorpher: Unleashing the Capability of Diffusion Models for Image Morphing CVPR 2024
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)
A Survey: Learning Embodied Intelligence from Physical Simulators and World Models Preprint
Experience
- Research Intern, Bytedance Intelligent Creation, San Jose, US, 2025.07 - Present
- Research Intern, Horizon Robotics, Beijing, China, 2024.09 - 2025.06
- Research Intern, Shanghai AI Lab, Shanghai, China, 2023.07 - 2024.01
- Research Assistant, Knowledge Engineering Group (KEG), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2022.09 - 2023.06
Honors and Awards
- Outstanding Graduate of Beijing (Top 3%), 2025
- Excellent 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
- Second Prize (3 / 109), The Jittor AI Challenge (Image Generation Track), 2023
- Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2022
- Meritorious Winner, American Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2022