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I am a Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs, with broad research interests in inverse and differentiable rendering, 3D reconstruction with foundation models and agents, multimodal learning, and robot learning.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine in 2022, where I was advised by Prof. Shuang Zhao. My doctoral research focused on physics-based rendering and inverse rendering, particularly the recovery of geometry and material properties from physical measurements. To develop general and principled solutions to these inverse problems, I worked extensively on physics-based differentiable rendering. Prior to my Ph.D., I earned a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Beijing University of Technology and an M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University.

I was a recipient of the 2021 Facebook Fellowship and the 2023 ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. Here is my CV and dissertation.

News

  • 06/2026 Paper ART was accepted to CVPR 2026.
  • 01/2026 I will serve as a member of Technical Papers Committee for SIGGRAPH Asia 2026
  • 06/2025 Two papers, LIRM and DTC (Highlight), were accepted to CVPR 2025.
  • 01/2025 One paper was accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025.
  • 06/2024 Paper TextureDreamer was accepted to CVPR 2024; one paper was accepted to EGSR 2024.
  • 07/2023 Paper Neural-PBIR was accepted to ICCV 2023.
  • 06/2023 My Ph.D. dissertation won the 2023 ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award.
  • 05/2023 One paper was accepted to EGSR 2023.
  • 04/2023 Paper SAM-RL was accepted to RSS 2023.
  • 07/2022 I joined Meta Reality Labs in Redmond, WA after completing my Ph.D. at UC Irvine.

Selected Publications

  1. arXiv
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    LSRM: High-Fidelity Object-Centric Reconstruction via Scaled Context Windows
    Zhengqin Li, Cheng Zhang, Jakob Engel, and Zhao Dong
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05182, 2026
    arXiv Bib Code Website
    @article{li2026lsrm,
      title = {LSRM: High-Fidelity Object-Centric Reconstruction via Scaled Context Windows},
      author = {Li, Zhengqin and Zhang, Cheng and Engel, Jakob and Dong, Zhao},
      journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05182},
      year = {2026},
    }
  2. CVPR
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    ART: Articulated Reconstruction Transformer
    Zizhang Li, Cheng Zhang, Zhengqin Li, Henry Howard-Jenkins, Zhaoyang Lv, Chen Geng, Jiajun Wu, Richard Newcombe, Jakob Engel, and Zhao Dong
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2026
    arXiv Bib Website
    @inproceedings{li2026art,
      title = {ART: Articulated Reconstruction Transformer},
      author = {Li, Zizhang and Zhang, Cheng and Li, Zhengqin and Howard-Jenkins, Henry and Lv, Zhaoyang and Geng, Chen and Wu, Jiajun and Newcombe, Richard and Engel, Jakob and Dong, Zhao},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
      year = {2026},
    }
  3. SIGGRAPH
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    Image-space Adaptive Sampling for Fast Inverse Rendering
    Kai Yan, Cheng Zhang, Sébastien Speierer, Guangyan Cai, Yufeng Zhu, Zhao Dong, and Shuang Zhao
    ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2025
    SIGGRAPH 2025
    Bib PDF Website
    @article{yan2025adaptive,
      title = {Image-space Adaptive Sampling for Fast Inverse Rendering},
      author = {Yan, Kai and Zhang, Cheng and Speierer, Sébastien and Cai, Guangyan and Zhu, Yufeng and Dong, Zhao and Zhao, Shuang},
      journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
      year = {2025},
      note = {SIGGRAPH 2025},
    }
  4. CVPR
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    Digital Twin Catalog: A Large-scale Photorealistic 3D Object Digital Twin Dataset
    Zhao Dong, Ka Chen, Zhaoyang Lv, Hong-Xing Yu, Yunzhi Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Yufeng Zhu, Stephen Tian, Zhengqin Li, Geordie Moffatt, Sean Christofferson, James Fort, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Hightlight Presentation, 2025
    arXiv Bib Website
    @inproceedings{dong2025digitaltwin,
      title = {Digital Twin Catalog: A Large-scale Photorealistic 3D Object Digital Twin Dataset},
      author = {Dong, Zhao and Chen, Ka and Lv, Zhaoyang and Yu, Hong-Xing and Zhang, Yunzhi and Zhang, Cheng and Zhu, Yufeng and Tian, Stephen and Li, Zhengqin and Moffatt, Geordie and Christofferson, Sean and Fort, James and Pan, Xiaqing and Yan, Mingfei and Wu, Jiajun and Ren, Carl Yuheng and Newcombe, Richard},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, <span style="color: red;">Hightlight Presentation</span>},
      year = {2025},
    }
  5. ICCV
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    Neural-PBIR Reconstruction of Shape, Material, and Illumination
    Cheng Sun, Guangyan Cai, Zhengqin Li, Kai Yan, Cheng Zhang, Carl Marshall, Jia-Bin Huang, Shuang Zhao, and Zhao Dong
    In International Conference on Computer Vision, Oct 2023
    arXiv Bib Website
    @inproceedings{sun2023neuralpbir,
      title = {Neural-PBIR Reconstruction of Shape, Material, and Illumination},
      author = {Sun, Cheng and Cai, Guangyan and Li, Zhengqin and Yan, Kai and Zhang, Cheng and Marshall, Carl and Huang, Jia-Bin and Zhao, Shuang and Dong, Zhao},
      booktitle = {International Conference on Computer Vision},
      year = {2023},
      month = oct,
    }
  6. SIGGRAPH
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    Antithetic Sampling for Monte Carlo Differentiable Rendering
    Cheng Zhang, Zhao Dong, Michael Doggett, and Shuang Zhao
    ACM Transactions on Graphics, Aug 2021
    Bib PDF Website
    @article{zhang2021antithetic,
      title = {Antithetic Sampling for Monte Carlo Differentiable Rendering},
      author = {Zhang, Cheng and Dong, Zhao and Doggett, Michael and Zhao, Shuang},
      journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
      volume = {40},
      number = {4},
      year = {2021},
      month = aug,
    }
  7. SIGGRAPH
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    Path-Space Differentiable Rendering of Participating Media
    Cheng Zhang*, Zihan Yu*, and Shuang Zhao
    ACM Transactions on Graphics, Aug 2021
    Bib PDF Website
    @article{zhang2021participatingmedia,
      title = {Path-Space Differentiable Rendering of Participating Media},
      author = {Zhang, Cheng and Yu, Zihan and Zhao, Shuang},
      journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
      volume = {40},
      number = {4},
      year = {2021},
      month = aug,
    }
  8. SIGGRAPH
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    Path-Space Differentiable Rendering
    Cheng Zhang, Bailey Miller, Kai Yan, Ioannis Gkioulekas, and Shuang Zhao
    ACM Transactions on Graphics, Jul 2020
    Bib PDF Website
    @article{zhang2020psdr,
      title = {Path-Space Differentiable Rendering},
      author = {Zhang, Cheng and Miller, Bailey and Yan, Kai and Gkioulekas, Ioannis and Zhao, Shuang},
      journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
      volume = {39},
      number = {4},
      year = {2020},
      month = jul,
    }
  9. SIGGRAPH Asia
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    A Differential Theory of Radiative Transfer
    Cheng Zhang, Lifan Wu, Changxi Zheng, Ioannis Gkioulekas, Ravi Ramamoorthi, and Shuang Zhao
    ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2019
    Bib PDF Code Website
    @article{zhang2019radiative,
      title = {A Differential Theory of Radiative Transfer},
      author = {Zhang, Cheng and Wu, Lifan and Zheng, Changxi and Gkioulekas, Ioannis and Ramamoorthi, Ravi and Zhao, Shuang},
      journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics},
      volume = {38},
      number = {6},
      year = {2019},
    }
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