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Tianrui Zhang

I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), advised by Prof. Dan Xu.

My research focuses on vision-language large models and robotics, with a particular interest in how agents interact with their environments.

Previously, I interned at SenseTime Research and led the mechanical department of HKUST RoboMaster Team ENTERPRIZE.

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Tianrui Zhang

Research

* Equal contribution
BlenderFORGE main figure

BlenderFORGE: Framework for Optimizing Reactive 3D-Graphics Editing Ability of MLLMs

Zilin Guo*, Tianrui Zhang*, Yi Rong*, Yichen Liu, Yuxin Guo, Jingcheng Ni, Lewei Lu, Zehuan Wu, Dan Xu
NeurIPS 2026
CVD-STORM framework combining STORM-VAE training with video diffusion and scene reconstruction

CVD-STORM: Cross-View Video Diffusion with Spatial-Temporal Reconstruction Model for Autonomous Driving

Tianrui Zhang*, Yichen Liu*, Zilin Guo*, Yuxin Guo, Jingcheng Ni, Chenjing Ding, Dan Xu, Lewei Lu, Zehuan Wu
arXiv, 2025

Controllable multi-view driving video generation and 4D scene reconstruction, connected through a reconstruction-trained VAE and a Gaussian Splatting decoder.

BibTeX
@article{zhang2025cvd,
  title = {CVD-STORM: Cross-View Video Diffusion with
    Spatial-Temporal Reconstruction Model for Autonomous Driving},
  author = {Zhang, Tianrui and Liu, Yichen and Guo, Zilin
    and Guo, Yuxin and Ni, Jingcheng and Ding, Chenjing
    and Xu, Dan and Lu, Lewei and Wu, Zehuan},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.07944},
  year = {2025}
}

Education & experience

Education

HKUST

Sep 2026 — Present

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

PhD candidate, Computer Science and Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Dan Xu

2022 — 2026

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Undergraduate studies in Computer Science & Mathematics

Research experience

SenseTime

Jun 2025 — Aug 2026

SenseTime Research

Research internship

Multi-view video generation and scene reconstruction, including CVD-STORM.

Honors & scholarships

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  • The HKUST Top Engineering Scholars Award

    One of only three undergraduate recipients of this distinction.

  • HKUST Academic Achievement Medal

    2026

  • Hong Kong PhD Fellowship

    2026/27

  • HKUST RedBird PhD Recruitment Award

  • Dean’s List

    Eight times

  • HKUST Admission Scholarship

  • University’s Scholarship Scheme for Continuing Undergraduate Students

    Three times

  • Chiaphua Industries Limited Scholarships for Chinese Mainland Undergraduate Students

  • HKSAR Government Scholarship Fund — Talent Development Scholarship

    Three times

  • RoboMaster University Championship — Regional First Prize

    2023, 2024 · Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan & Overseas Region · Team award

  • RoboMaster University Championship — Final Tournament Second Prize

    2023, 2024, 2025 · Team award

Past experience

Mechanical Department Lead · 2024

ENTERPRIZE — A RoboMaster Team at HKUST

I led the mechanical department of HKUST RoboMaster Team ENTERPRIZE in 2024, working on mechanical design for competition robots.

Team achievements · National finals second prize, 2023–2025; regional first prize, 2023 & 2024.

HKUST ENTERPRIZE engineer robot with its mechanical frame and lifting assembly

Open-source project

RoboMaster 2024 Engineer Robot

Our open-source release includes the robot’s technical report, mechanical designs, and a custom controller.

Technical report & open-source designs