Zhihao Zhang 张志浩
PhD Student · UNC-Chapel Hill
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), advised by Prof. Xiaoming Liu. I spent the first two years of my Ph.D. at Michigan State University (MSU). Before my Ph.D., I received my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), under the supervision of Prof. Weizhan Zhang. I was also a research intern at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), hosted by Prof. Yu-Xiong Wang.
Research
My long-term goal is to build computational models that perceive, reason about, and predict the physical 3D world. I am broadly interested in 3D vision, spatial intelligence, and world models. Concretely, I work on:
- 3D Vision. Monocular 3D object detection, 3D shape understanding, and multi-modal 3D perception for autonomous driving and beyond.
- Spatial Intelligence. Spatial reasoning, 3D grounding, and geometry-aware representations in vision-language models.
- World Models. Predictive, action-conditioned modeling of 3D scenes toward embodied perception and interaction.
News
Our MonoCoP has been selected as a CVPR 2026 Highlight.
Two first-author papers accepted by CVPR 2026.
I will join TikTok as a Research Intern in summer 2026 — see you in San Jose!
One paper accepted by ICCV 2025.
Joined MSU as a PhD student.
Honored with the Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award at XJTU.
One first-author paper accepted by CVPR 2024.
Honored with the National Scholarship.
Selected Publications
* denotes equal contribution.