Zichen Wang

I am Zichen, a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, advised by Prof. JJ Park. I work on the intersections of Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and generative models.

Prior to that, I obtained my Bachelor degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science at Cornell University, where I worked with Prof. Steve Marschner on differentiable rendering.

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Research

Here are some of my research projects.

A Simple Approach to Differentiable Rendering of SDFs
Zichen Wang, Xi Deng, Ziyi Zhang, Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

[Project] [arXiv] [Code]


DiffusionPDE: Generative PDE-Solving Under Partial Observation
Jiahe Huang, Guandao Yang, Zichen Wang, JJ Park
NeurIPS 2024

[Project][arXiv][Code]
Accurate Differential Operators for Neural Fields
Aditya Chetan, Guandao Yang, Zichen Wang, Steve Marschner, Bharath Hariharan
arXiv preprint

[Project][arXiv]



Revisiting Garg's 2-Approximation Algorithm for the k-MST Problem in Graphs
Emmett Breen, Renee Mirka, Zichen Wang, David P. Williamson
* Authors listed in alphabetical order
Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA), 2023

[Paper] [Slides] [arXiv]

Four-periodic infinite staircases for four-dimensional polydisks
Caden Farley, Tara Holm, Nicki Magill, Jemma Schroder, Zichen Wang, Morgan Weiler, Elizaveta Zabelina
* Authors listed in alphabetical order
Joint Math Meeting, 2023; Involve, A Journal Of Mathematics, 2023

[arXiv] [Code]

On 2-digit and 3-digit Kaprekar's Routine
Zichen Wang, Wei Lu

[arXiv]



Projects

Here are some of my course projects.

Artisitic Gaussians with CLIP
Zichen Wang, Aditya Kompella, Akhilesh Sharma, Daniel Cao
CS6670 Final Project

[Report]




SimSDF: Physically-Based Simulation with Signed Distance Field
Zichen Wang, Xilai Dai, Barry Lyu
CS5643 Final Project

[Code] [Video]





Make It Move: Image-to-Video Meme Generation
Fengyu Li, Yolanda Wang, Zichen Wang
CS4701 Final Project

[Report] [Video]






Design and source code from Jon Barron's website.