Zhenwei Wang

Building generative AI for 3D world models.

Researcher at Tencent Hunyuan, working on the HY World model series.

Ph.D. from CityU, advised by Prof. Rynson W.H. Lau and Prof. Gerhard Hancke. During my Ph.D., I worked closely with Tengfei Wang and Ziwei Liu at Shanghai AI Lab & MMLab@NTU, and with Nanxuan Zhao at Adobe Research. My research interests span world models, 3D reconstruction, 3D asset generation, and video generation.

News

  • 2026.04HY-World 2.0 is released!
  • 2025.08Three papers accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2025. See you in Hong Kong.
  • 2025.08HY-World 1.0 is released.
  • 2025.02One paper accepted to CVPR 2025.
  • 2025.02One paper accepted to ICLR 2025. See you in Singapore.
  • 2024.04One paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2024. See you in Denver.
  • 2023.12One paper accepted to AAAI 2024.
  • 2023.04One paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2023 (Journal).

Open-Source Projects

Selected Publications

*equal contribution  ·  ^intern  ·  †corresponding author

2026
2025
2024
2023

Experience, Services & Awards

Experience

  • Researcher, Tencent HY World2025.08 — present
  • Research Intern, Tencent HY World2025.04 — 2025.07
  • Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, VCG Group2024.10 — 2025.02
  • Research Intern, Shanghai AI Laboratory, 3D AIGC Team2023.09 — 2024.10

Awards

  • Outstanding Academic Performance Award, CityU2023, 2024
  • Outstanding Graduate, Xiamen University2020
  • Outstanding Student, Xiamen University2019, 2020
  • Huang Xilie Scholarship (Top 2%)2019, 2020
  • First-Class Scholarship (Top 3%)2018

Services

Reviewer · SIGGRAPH, 3DV, CVPR, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, TOG, TVCG, IJCV

Teaching Assistant · Virtual Reality Technologies and Applications (CS4188 / CS5188)