GAO Tianhong (高天鸿) | Peking University

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at the School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University, advised by Assistant Professor Mengyu Chu. I received my B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2025.

I am currently seeking internship and collaboration opportunities to advance research on sim-ready assets, synthetic data, and dexterous manipulation.

Research Interests

Computer graphics and physical simulation
Robotics simulation environments and physically grounded assets
Synthetic data and dexterous manipulation

News

2026.9: Our work JODA was accepted to NeurIPS 2026.
2025.10: Our work Fast Multi-Body Coupling for Underwater Interactions appeared at Pacific Graphics 2025.
2025.6: I earned my B.Eng. at Tsinghua University and was named one of its Outstanding Graduates.

Publications

* Equal contribution † Corresponding author

JODA: Composable Joint Dynamics for Articulated Objects

Tianhong Gao^*, Cheng Yu^*, Yinghao Xu, Mengyu Chu^†

NeurIPS 2026

Project arXiv Recent updates, demos, and code coming soon!

Fast Multi-Body Coupling for Underwater Interactions

Tianhong Gao, Xuwen Chen, Xingqiao Li, Wei Li, Baoquan Chen, Zherong Pan, Kui Wu, Mengyu Chu^†

Pacific Graphics 2025

Cite DOI Video Code

@inproceedings{10.2312:pg.20251268,
booktitle = {Pacific Graphics Conference Papers, Posters, and Demos},
editor = {Christie, Marc and Han, Ping-Hsuan and Lin, Shih-Syun and Pietroni, Nico and Schneider, Teseo and Tsai, Hsin-Ruey and Wang, Yu-Shuen and Zhang, Eugene},
title = {{Fast Multi-Body Coupling for Underwater Interactions}},
author = {Gao, Tianhong and Chen, Xuwen and Li, Xingqiao and Li, Wei and Chen, Baoquan and Pan, Zherong and Wu, Kui and Chu, Mengyu},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-295-0},
DOI = {10.2312/pg.20251268}
}

Research and Internship Experience

Visual Computing and Learning Lab (VCL Lab), Peking University — Research Intern / Ph.D. Student, February 2024–present.
Galbot — Intern, July 2026–present.

Education

Peking University, Ph.D. student, School of Intelligence Science and Technology, September 2025–present. Expected graduation: June 2030.
Tsinghua University, B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering, September 2021–June 2025.

Selected Honors

Outstanding Graduate, Tsinghua University (2025)
National Scholarship (2022)
First Prize (National Finals), 37th Chinese Physics Olympiad (2020)