Hengyu Liu

Incoming Ph.D. Student

University of Texas at Austin

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About Me

I am an incoming Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin. I did my M.Phil. at the The Chinese University of Hong Kong and received my B.E. at Tianjin University, where I had the honor to work closely with Prof. Changqing Zhang. I'm currently focusing on 3D Computer Vision and its application in video worlding and VLM agents.

Recent News

[2026.04] I pass my M.Phil. Oral Defense!
[2025.09] IR3D-Bench is accepted by NeurIPS 2025.
[2025.02] FlexGS is accepted by CVPR 2025.

Selected Publications

^* denotes equal contribution;

IR3D-Bench: Evaluating Vision-Language Model Scene Understanding as Agentic Inverse Rendering

Hengyu Liu^*, Chenxin Li^*, Zhengxin Li, Zhengxin Li, Yipeng Wu,
Wuyang Li, Zhiqin Yang, Zhenyuan Zhang, Yunlong Lin, Sirui Han, Brandon Y. Feng.

NeurIPS 2025

Paper/ Project/ Code/ YouTube/ Huggingface

FlexGS: Train Once, Deploy Everywhere with Many-in-One Flexible 3D Gaussian Splatting

Hengyu Liu^*, Yuehao Wang^*, Chenxin Li^*, Ruisi Cai, Kevin Wang, Wuyang Li, Pavlo Molchanov, Peihao Wang, Zhangyang Wang.

CVPR 2025

Paper/ Project/ Code/ YouTube/ Bilibili

Education

University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D. Student

Aug. 2026 -

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

M.Phil. in Electronic Engineering

Sep. 2024 - Jul. 2026

Tianjin University

B.E. in Artificial Intelligence

Sep. 2020 - Jul. 2024

GPA: 3.93/4.00, Ranking: 1/69

Awards

ICML 2026 Gold Reviewer, 2026.
NeurIPS 2025 Scholar Award, 2025.
Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis of Tianjin University, 2024.
Outstanding Graduates of Tianjin University, 2024.
Outstanding Student of Tianjin University, 2022.

Services

Conference Reviewer

ICLR 2026, ICML 2026, CVPR 2025, AAAI 2025-2026, ICASSP 2025-2026, IJCNN 2025-2026.

Journal Reviewer

Pattern Recognition.

Teaching Assistant

ELEG2310B, CUHK, 2024-2025 Fall;
ENGG1130, CUHK, 2024-2025 Spring;

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