Yang Fei费阳
I am an incoming Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, advised by Prof. Sanja Fidler. I studied Computer Science and Mathematics at HKUST and was an exchange student at the University of Washington. During this time, I worked with Prof. Qifeng Chen and Prof. Ranjay Krishna.
My research goal is to build neural simulators for robotics: interactive, geometrically consistent, and physically grounded world models that enable embodied agents to predict consequences and plan before acting in the physical world. I currently study motion-centric video generation, with an emphasis on preserving structure and dynamics over time.
News
- I will join the University of Toronto as a Computer Science Ph.D. student, advised by Prof. Sanja Fidler.
- Our new preprint, “Structure from Tracking” (first author), is now available. See the project page.
- VideoVAE+ (co-first author) has been accepted to ICCV 2025. Code and weights are available here.
- Received the The Hong Kong, China – Asia-Pacific Scholarship.
- Started an exchange program at the University of Washington (Seattle).
Selected Publications
All publicationsLarge Motion Video Autoencoding with Cross-modal Video VAE
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
TL;DR: We propose a video autoencoder that achieves high-fidelity video encoding by combining temporal-aware spatial compression, lightweight temporal compression, and textual guidance.
Education
University of Toronto
Ph.D. in Computer Science · Advisor: Prof. Sanja Fidler
University of Washington
Exchange Student, College of Engineering · GPA: 4.0 / 4.0
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics · GPA: 4.0 / 4.3 · Top 2 in CS & Math
Selected Honors
- Kerry Holdings Limited UROP Award
- HKSAR Government Scholarship
- The Hong Kong, China – Asia-Pacific Scholarship