Hi, I am Friday!

I am a PhD student at HKUST, supervised by Prof. Yinghao Xu (my academic idol!). I got M. Eng at Zhejiang University, where I was advised by Prof. Yu Zhang. I got my B. Eng at Jilin University, where I spent 4 wonderful years. My research interests lie in 3D computer vision, graphics, and generative models. My ultimate goal is to build world models that can perceive, interact with, and reason about physical environments.
💬 Feel free to contact me if you're feeling lost or going through a tough time. I'm happy to help as I've been in that situation before.

News

[2025.05] I have made my final decision for the future.
[2025.04] I successfully lose weight! More than 40斤. Congratulations to myslef!

Selected Publications

For full publication list, please visit my Google Scholar. (# denotes equal contribution)
LingBot-World: Advancing Open-source World Models
Technical Report 2026
Zelin Gao, Qiuyu Wang, Yanhong Zeng, Jiapeng Zhu, Ka Leong Cheng, Yixuan Li, Hanlin Wang, Yinghao Xu, Shuailei Ma, Yihang Chen, Jie Liu, Yansong Cheng, Yao Yao, Jiayi Zhu, Yihao Meng, Kecheng Zheng, Qingyan Bai, Jingye Chen, Zehong Shen, Yue Yu, Xing Zhu, Yujun Shen, Hao Ouyang
Project Page Paper Code
LingBot-VA: Causal World Modeling for Robot Control
Technical Report 2026
Lin Li, Qihang Zhang, Yiming Luo, Shuai Yang, Ruilin Wang, Fei Han, Mingrui Yu, Zelin Gao, Nan Xue, Xing Zhu, Yujun Shen, Yinghao Xu
Project Page Paper Code
SAP3D: The More You See in 2D, the More You Perceive in 3D
CVPR 2024 [Highlight]
Xinyang Han#, Zelin Gao#, Angjoo Kanazawa, Shubham Goel, Yossi Gandelsman
Project Page Paper Code
Adaptive Positional Encoding for Bundle-Adjusting Neural Radiance Fields
ICCV 2023
Zelin Gao, Weichen Dai, Yu Zhang
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