About

My research is centered on building human-centric world models that perceive, anticipate, and generate how people and their environments evolve over time. I develop predictive and generative models across human motion, dynamic 3D scenes, and long-horizon video generation, with the goal of learning general models of human-centered dynamics.

I am currently looking for research roles and collaborations in computer vision and generative AI. Please get in touch if you think there could be a good fit!

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Selected Publications

* Joint first-author · Full list on Google Scholar

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  1. EverAnimate: Minute-Scale Human Animation via Latent Flow Restoration
    Wuyang Li, Yang Gao, Mariam Hassan, Lan Feng, Wentao Pan, Po-Chien Luan, Alexandre Alahi
    arXiv 2026

    Generates minute-scale human animation using persistent latent memory and restorative flow matching to preserve identity, motion, and visual quality over long sequences.

  2. OmniTraj: Pre-Training on Heterogeneous Data for Adaptive and Zero-Shot Human Trajectory Prediction
    Yang Gao, Po-Chien Luan, Kaouther Messaoud, Lan Feng, Alexandre Alahi
    TR-C 2026 · Precognition @ CVPR 2026

    Pre-trains on heterogeneous trajectory data to support adaptive and zero-shot prediction across datasets, frame rates, and observation lengths.

  3. Deformable Gaussian Occupancy: Decoupling Rigid and Nonrigid Motion with Factorized Distillation
    Yang Gao, Wuyang Li, Po-Chien Luan, Alexandre Alahi

    † Corresponding author

    CVPR 2026

    Represents dynamic scenes with deformable Gaussian occupancy, separating rigid and nonrigid motion through factorized foundation-model distillation.

  4. Stable Video Infinity: Infinite-Length Video Generation with Error Recycling
    Wuyang Li, Wentao Pan, Po-Chien Luan, Yang Gao, Alexandre Alahi
    ICLR 2026Oral

    Extends video generation to long horizons through error-recycling fine-tuning, improving temporal consistency and reducing accumulated drift.

  5. RAP: 3D Rasterization Augmented End-to-End Planning
    Lan Feng, Yang Gao, Eloi Zablocki, Quanyi Li, Wuyang Li, Matthieu Cord, Alexandre Alahi
    ICLR 2026

    Uses 3D rasterization to connect simulation and real-world features for end-to-end driving, enabling scalable training without photorealistic rendering.

  6. Social-Pose: Enhancing Trajectory Prediction with Human Body Pose
    Yang Gao, Saeed Saadatnejad, Alexandre Alahi
    IEEE T-ITS 2025

    Combines human body poses with observed trajectories to capture spatiotemporal social interactions and improve predictions of future motion.

  7. Unified Human Localization and Trajectory Prediction with Monocular Vision
    Po-Chien Luan*, Yang Gao*, Alexandre Alahi
    ICRA 2025

    Unifies human localization and future trajectory prediction from a single camera by connecting 2D pose observations with 3D motion forecasting.

  8. Multi-Transmotion: Pre-trained Model for Human Motion Prediction
    Yang Gao, Po-Chien Luan, Alexandre Alahi
    CoRL 2024

    Learns transferable representations through pre-training for human motion prediction, integrating diverse motion cues for future forecasting.

  9. Social-Transmotion: Promptable Human Trajectory Prediction
    Saeed Saadatnejad*, Yang Gao*, Kaouther Messaoud, Alexandre Alahi
    ICLR 2024

    Uses a promptable transformer to forecast human trajectories from varied motion cues, including trajectories and body poses.

Academic Service & Teaching

Academic Service

  • Workshop organizer, ECCV 2026: Human Motion-Informed World Models and Socially Intelligent Action
  • Conference reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICRA, IROS
  • Journal reviewer: RA-L, IEEE T-ITS, TR-C

Teaching Assistant

  • CIVIL-459 · Deep Learning for Autonomous Vehicles
  • CS-119 · Information, Computation, Communication (Python Programming)

Education

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

BEng

Electrical and Computer Engineering
China

Advisor: Prof. Ming Yang

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

PhD Candidate

Computer Science
Switzerland

Advisor: Prof. Alexandre Alahi