Assistant Professor

University of East Anglia

Email: Cheng.C.Wang@uea.ac.uk

About Me

Cheng Wang

Assistant Professor in Computer Science, UEA

I'm currently an Assistant Professor (ATR Lecturer) in the School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia (UEA).

I did my PhD in Computer Science at KAUST with Professor Helmut Pottmann. Before that, I got my Bachelor's degree in Automation at Tsinghua University, in 2016.

My research mainly focuses on Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Geometry Processing, Computational Design and Fabrication. I am also interested in the interdisciplinary areas of visual computing, AI and learning representations. I have published in ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM Transactions on Graphics, and Computer-Aided Design.

I am recruiting self-motivated PhD students (direct emails are welcomed). The UEA offers many research opportunities, projects, and scholarships. Check the research openings here. Apply for a postgraduate research degree via this link and find the application deadlines here.

Selected Publications

Discrete Isogonal Nets with Similar Parallelograms

Hui Wang, Xinye Li, Zhi Li, Cheng Wang.
Computer-Aided Design (Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling), 2025.

[paper coming soon]

From Overview to Immersion: Level-of-Detail Digitization of High Ceilings in Virtual Reality

Jacob Edwards, Stephen Laycock, Thomas Roebuck, Yingliang Ma, Cheng Wang.
Digital Heritage, 2025. (UKRI AHRC funded heritage project paper, accepted)

[paper]

Visual Agentic System for Spatial Metric Query Answering in Remote Sensing Images

Yinghao Wang, Cheng Wang.
Eurographics, 2025. (Undergraduate student supervision outcome)

[paper], [poster]

Architectural structures from quad meshes with planar parameter lines

Cheng Wang, Caigui Jiang, Hui Wang, Xavier Tellier, Helmut Pottmann.
(Elsevier) Computer-Aided Design, 2023.

[paper]

Planar panels and planar supporting beams in architectural structures

Cheng Wang, Caigui Jiang, Xavier Tellier, Johannes Wallner, Helmut Pottmann.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2022)

[paper], [poster], [video]

Computational design and optimization of quad meshes based on diagonal meshes

Caigui Jiang, Cheng Wang, Eike Schling, Helmut Pottmann.
Advances in Architectural Geometry 2021

[paper]

Quad-mesh based isometric mappings and developable surfaces

Caigui Jiang, Cheng Wang, Florian Rist, Johannes Wallner, Helmut Pottmann.
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2020)

[paper], [video]