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Ziyi Zhang 张梓毅 I am a fourth year PhD student in the Realistic Graphics Lab at EPFL, adviced by Prof. Wenzel Jakob. I'm interested in physical light transport simulation and its differentiation. During my PhD, I have had the opportunity to work as an intern with NVIDIA and Google. Before that, I obtained my bachelor's degree from NYU where I had the privilege of working with Prof. Daniele Panozzo. Email / Google Scholar / Github / Bluesky |
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Many-Worlds Inverse Rendering
Ziyi Zhang, Nicolas Roussel, Wenzel Jakob ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2025 project page / paper Simple and efficient geometry optimization by differentiating non-interacting superposition of conflicting possibilities ("worlds"). |
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Radiance Surfaces: Optimizing Surface Representations with a 5D Radiance Field Loss
Ziyi Zhang, Nicolas Roussel, Thomas Müller, Tizian Zeltner, Merlin Nimier-David, Fabrice Rousselle, Wenzel Jakob ACM SIGGRAPH, 2025 project page / talk / paper / code Optimizing a distribution of surfaces without volume rendering. |
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A Simple Approach to Differentiable Rendering of SDFs
Zichen Wang, Xi Deng, Ziyi Zhang, Wenzel Jakob, Steve Marschner ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024 project page / paper / code SDF differentiation made simple. |
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Projective Sampling for Differentiable Rendering of Geometry
Ziyi Zhang, Nicolas Roussel, Wenzel Jakob ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2023 project page / talk / paper / code Compute gradients of geometry in physically-based rendering -- from theory to a practical Monte Carlo algorithm. |
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4D Force Detection of Cell Adhesion and Contractility
Nafsika Chala, Xinyu Zhang, Tomaso Zambelli, Ziyi Zhang, Teseo Schneider, Daniele Panozzo, Dimos Poulikakos, Aldo Ferrari Nanoletters, 2023 paper / code Traction force microscopy in 3D. |
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Rear traction forces drive adherent tissue migration in vivo
Naoya Yamaguchi, Ziyi Zhang, Teseo Schneider, Biran Wang, Daniele Panozzo, Holger Knaut Nature Cell Biology, 2022 paper / code Optical tracking of bleached pattern for cellular traction force microscopy. |
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Bijective and Coarse High-Order Tetrahedral Meshes
Zhongshi Jiang, Ziyi Zhang, Yixin Hu, Teseo Schneider, Denis Zorin, Daniele Panozzo ACM SIGGRAPH, 2021 project page / paper / code Robust Coarse Curved TetMesh Generation. |
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