Yiran Zhang

I am currently a third-year Ph.D. in Computer Science at Purdue University under the supervision of Dr. Aniket Bera. Before this, I was graduated at Northwestern University with a CS Master Degree and was fortunate to work with Dr. Emma Alexander, Dr. Diego Klabjan, and Dr. Ian Horswill. I also received my B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in Visual Fine Art double degrees from Union College. My research passion lies in utilizing different learning techniques to create innovative solutions for computer graphics, VR/AR, and locomotion problems.

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We evaluate 3D generation SOTA model's ability to solve partial 2D to 3D completion task where we design a novel algorithm for views extraction on 3D fracture data for model tuning and evaluate the result geometry through various 2D and 3D distribution metrics to showcase its potential.

HCVR virtual scene generation framework optimized for VR navigation and compatible with alignment-based redirected walking controller to provide user a unique natural walking interface.

An LLM-based audio-guided navigation agent that uses affective cues in spoken communication—elements to assess the trustworthiness of human commands.

We extend our previous paper's fracture dataset to include fractured data from large complete 3D dataset with our decomposing algorithm. With larger dataset, our model can generate high fidelity 3D geometry model that captures the features appear in the partial 2D conditions. We also develop a new metrics to evaluate the feature similarity between the partial 2D data and the 3D result geometry.

Teaching and Mentoring

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