Hao Zhang 张昊

Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Research Scientist Intern, World Labs

I work on world models, 3D/4D reconstruction and generation, animation and rigging, and differentiable physical simulation. Always open to research collaborations, academic discussions, and mentoring.

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LatestAtlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence

World Labs, 2026 · I co-led Atlas 3D with Bardienus Duisterhof — reconstruction and explicit 3D outputs

News

Recent updates

Sep 1, 2026

World Labs released Atlas, a world model for spatial intelligence. I co-led Atlas 3D with Bardienus Duisterhof.New

Jul 19, 2026

FreeOrbit4D accepted by SIGGRAPH 2026.

Jul 13, 2026

RegHead (ECCV 2026) is out — project page, paper, code, and dataset.

Jun 12, 2026

World Tracing (first author) is out — paper, project page, code, and live demo are available.

Feb 20, 2026

RigMo (first author) accepted by CVPR 2026; code and data will be released soon.

Nov 14, 2025

Joining World Labs in San Francisco as a Research Scientist Intern from January 2026.

Sep 18, 2025

SP4D (first author) accepted by NeurIPS 2025 as a Spotlight.

Jun 25, 2025

PhysRig (first author) accepted by ICCV 2025.

Jun 2, 2025

Joined Snap Research (New York) as a Research Scientist Intern.

May 27, 2025

One paper (first author) accepted by TMLR 2025.

Feb 17, 2025

Selected as a Meshy Fellowship 2025 Finalist.

Sep 16, 2024

Joined Stability AI.

May 2, 2024

Joined Pixocial AI Lab in Seattle.

May 2, 2024

One paper (first author) accepted by ICML 2024.

Jan 16, 2024

One paper (first author) accepted by ICLR 2024.

Dec 8, 2023

One paper (first author) accepted by AAAI 2024.

Oct 24, 2023

One paper (first author) accepted by WACV 2024.

Publications

Selected · ^* equal contribution

arXiv 2026

World Tracing: Generative Pixel-Aligned Geometry Beyond the Visible

Hao Zhang^1,2, Mohamed El Banani¹, Jen-Hao Cheng¹, Paul Zhang¹, Yi Hua¹, Ben Mildenhall¹, Christoph Lassner¹, Narendra Ahuja², Gengshan Yang¹

¹World Labs · ²University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Project Paper Code Demo

ECCV 2026

RegHead: Non-Humanoid Head Blendshapes via Feed-Forward Registration

Jiahao Luo¹, Hao Zhang², Jianqi Chen³, Yijie He⁴, Jiaxu Zou⁴, Michael Vasilkovsky⁴, Sergei Korolev⁴, Sergey Tulyakov⁴, Chaoyang Wang⁴, Peter Wonka³, James Davis¹, Jian Wang⁴