Cheng Wang 王城

Assistant Professor in Computer Science

Cheng Wang

My research spans visual computing, HCI, and AI.

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About

Academic Profile

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK.

I completed my PhD in Computer Science at KAUST with Professor Helmut Pottmann. Before that, I received my Bachelor's degree in Automation from Tsinghua University.

My publications include work in ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Computer-Aided Design, and Eurographics.

Research

Interests

  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Vision
  • Geometry Processing
  • Computational Design
  • Digital Fabrication
  • Human-Agent Collaboration
  • Agentic AI

Now Recruiting

Senior Research Associate (Postdoc/Scientist)

I am recruiting a Senior Research Associate to work in my lab on "Physics-Aware Agentic AI Systems for 3D Reconstruction and Generation". Direct enquiries are welcome.

Job description Apply Deadline: July 13, 2026

Funded Studentship

PhD Studentship

I am recruiting self-motivated PhD students to join my lab in October 2026 and work on "Scaling 3D Intelligence: AI for City-Scale Reconstruction and Generation". Direct enquiries are welcome.

Job description Apply Deadline: June 18, 2026

Prospective PhD Students

I welcome enquiries from self-motivated PhD students. UEA offers research opportunities, projects, and scholarships for postgraduate research applicants.

Research openings Apply Deadlines

Partnerships

Funding & Collaboration

Research Funding

My research is supported by funding bodies including the Royal Society, AHRC, and Innovate UK.

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Collaborators

I collaborate with academic and industry partners across visual computing, computational design, and geometry-aware AI systems.

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University of Cambridge logo University of Cambridge
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Publications

Selected Publications

PAS3R: Pose-Adaptive Streaming 3D Reconstruction for Long Video Sequences

Lanbo Xu, Liang Guo, Caigui Jiang, Cheng Wang. arXiv preprint 2026.

Paper Project Code

pas3r preview

Generalized ART-Owen Scrambling

Abdallah G.M. Ahmed, Cheng Wang. Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC), 2026.

Paper

CGVC26 preview

PPISP-Local: Local Tone Mapping for Physically Plausible 3D Gaussian Splatting of Heritage Ceilings

Anthony Wong, Cheng Wang. London Imaging Meeting (LIM), 2026. Undergraduate student supervision outcome.

Paper coming soon

ppisp-local preview

The Observability Gap: Why Output-Level Human Feedback Fails for LLM Coding Agents

Yinghao Wang, Cheng Wang. CHI 2026 Workshop on Human-Agent Collaboration. Undergraduate student supervision outcome.

Paper

Observability Gap preview

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

Preview for Discrete Isogonal Nets with Similar Parallelograms

Level-of-Detail Digitization of High Ceilings in Virtual Reality

Jacob Edwards, Stephen Laycock, Thomas Roebuck, Yingliang Ma, Cheng Wang. Digital Heritage - 4th International Congress, 2025. UKRI AHRC IAA funded heritage project.

Paper

High ceiling digitization preview

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

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

Paper Poster

Flow chart for visual agentic spatial metric query answering

Architectural Structures from Quad Meshes with Planar Parameter Lines

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

Paper

Architectural structure generated from quad meshes

Planar Panels and Planar Supporting Beams in Architectural Structures

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

Paper Poster Video

Planar panels and planar supporting beams preview

Computational Design and Optimization of Quad Meshes Based on Diagonal Meshes

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

Paper

Diagonal mesh optimization preview

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

Isometric mappings and developable surfaces preview

Services

Academic Services

Peer Reviewer

Conferences / Journals

  • SIGGRAPH
  • CVPR, ECCV
  • NeurIPS
  • Pacific Graphics, CAD/Graphics
  • Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Neural Processing Letters

Other Services

  • IPC, CAD/CG, 2026
  • Eurographics member
  • ACM SIGGRAPH member

Team

Research Group

PhD Students

  • Andrew Simpson since 2024
  • Fangyu Zhou 2026 (incoming)

Master's Students

  • Boshuo He, Venkat Pastula, Shiv Trivedi 2026
  • William Boyer, Cheuk-Ling Wan 2025
  • Ravinder Singh 2024

Final-year Students

2026-27: Ellie Fraser, Philip Lush, Tao Yu, Jiachen Shan, Keelan Reddings, Joe Harris.

2025-26: Katy Frost, Louis French, Sean Atanacio, Ollie Jones, Lorenzo Francisco, Toby Mountford, Anthony Wong.

2024-25: Charlotte Barker, Faizan Khan, Alex Foster, Jay Wharton, Emmanuel Oloruntola.

Intern Students

  • Charlie Doonan - University of East Anglia, 2026
  • Jacob Edwards - University of East Anglia, 2025
  • Yinghao Wang - University of Cambridge, 2025

Visitors / Invited Speakers

  • Dr Abdalla G.M. Ahmed - Invited Talk: "Marketing a Graphics Research Paper"

Contact

Get in Touch

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

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