Hello, I'm

Runmao Yao

Incoming PhD Student at MMLab@NTU

Video Generation World Models Physical AI

01About

I am an Incoming PhD Student at MMLab@NTU, supervised by Prof. Ziwei Liu. I received my Bachelor of Engineering degree from the School of Software, Tsinghua University.

During my undergraduate studies, I was fortunate to work with Prof. Yu-Shen Liu and Prof. Chen Wang, whose guidance has shaped my academic journey.

My research lies in video generation, world models, and physical AI.

Feel free to reach out for collaborations, questions, or just to chat!

02News

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2026

May 26 SpatialBench is out — a cross-paradigm benchmark for evaluating spatial foundation models.
May 20 PhysX-Omni is out — a unified framework for simulation-ready physical 3D asset generation.
Jan 23 AnchoredDream is out — zero-shot 360° indoor scene generation from a single image.

2025

Sep 28 Joined MMLab@NTU as a Research Assistant.
Jun 21 Graduated from Tsinghua University with a B.Eng. in Software Engineering.
Feb 26 AirRoom and SuperPC are accepted by CVPR 2025.

2024

Dec 15 Joined Prof. Yu-Shen Liu's group for my undergraduate thesis.
Jul 01 Joined SAIR Lab as a summer research intern.

03Selected Publications Citations

arXiv 2026

SpatialBench: Is Your Spatial Foundation Model an All-Round Player?

Haosong Peng, Hao Li, Jiaqi Chen, Yuhao Pan, Runmao Yao, Yalun Dai, Fushuo Huo, Fangzhou Hong, Zhaoxi Chen, Haozhao Wang, Dingwen Zhang, Ziwei Liu, Wenchao Xu

Paper Code Project

arXiv 2026

PhysX-Omni: Unified Simulation-Ready Physical 3D Generation for Rigid, Deformable, and Articulated Objects

Ziang Cao, Yinghao Liu, Haitian Li, Runmao Yao, Fangzhou Hong, Zhaoxi Chen, Liang Pan, Ziwei Liu

Paper Code Project

arXiv 2026

AnchoredDream: Zero-Shot 360° Indoor Scene Generation from a Single View via Geometric Grounding

Runmao Yao*, Junsheng Zhou*, Zhen Dong, Yu-Shen Liu

Paper

CVPR 2025

SuperPC: A Single Diffusion Model for Point Cloud Completion, Upsampling, Denoising, and Colorization

Yi Du, Zhipeng Zhao, Shaoshu Su, Sharath Golluri, Haoze Zheng, Runmao Yao, Chen Wang

Paper Code Project

CVPR 2025

AirRoom: Objects Matter in Room Reidentification

Runmao Yao, Yi Du, Zhuoqun Chen, Haoze Zheng, Chen Wang

Paper Code Project

04Honors and Awards

2024
- Sep Comprehensive Excellence Award (Top 5%) Tsinghua University
2023
- Sep Comprehensive Excellence Award (Top 5%) Tsinghua University
2021
- Dec Second Prize Scholarship for Incoming Students (Top 5%) Tsinghua University

05Educations

2026.08 - Present Ph.D. College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University Singapore
2021.09 - 2025.06 B.Eng. School of Software, Tsinghua University Beijing, China

06Internships

2026.07 - Present Intern ByteDance, USA Supervisor: Dr. Tao Hu
2025.09 - 2026.06 Research Assistant MMLab@NTU, Singapore Supervisor: Prof. Ziwei Liu