EvenSplat: Coupled 2D-3D Decomposition for Gaussian Splatting under Exposure and Illumination Variation
Assistant Professor in Computer Science
Cheng Wang
My research spans Visual Computing, HCI, and AI.
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 from TU Wien. 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
Now Recruiting
PhD Studentship
I am recruiting self-motivated PhD students to join my lab in October 2027 and work on
"Building 3D Games and Procedural Worlds with Agentic AI".
Direct enquiries are welcome before you submit the application.
Research Associate / Postdoc Researcher
I am recruiting Research Associate (Postdoc) to work in my lab on "Physics-Aware Agentic AI
Systems for 3D Reconstruction and Generation". The prosition is active from 2026 to 2029.
Direct enquiries are welcome.
Prospective CSC-funded PhD Students
I am supporting CSC PhD application from self-motivated students. UEA offers 20 CSC-funded PhD studentships anually, the applicaiton deadline for 2027 is January 11, 2027.
Partnerships
Funding & Collaboration
Research Funding
My research is supported by funding bodies including the Royal Society, AHRC, and Innovate UK.
Royal Society
AHRC
Innovate UK
Collaborators
I collaborate with academic and industry partners across visual computing, computational design, and geometry-aware AI systems.
University of Tokyo
University of Cambridge
Tsinghua University
Xi'an Jiaotong University
KAUST
TU Wien
TU Graz
Aalto University
National Trust
Planarific
Publications
Selected Publications
Generalized ART-Owen Scrambling
PPISP-Local: Local Tone Mapping for Physically Plausible 3D Gaussian Splatting of Heritage Ceilings
The Observability Gap: Why Output-Level Human Feedback Fails for LLM Coding Agents
Discrete Isogonal Nets with Similar Parallelograms
Level-of-Detail Digitization of High Ceilings in Virtual Reality
Architectural Structures from Quad Meshes with Planar Parameter Lines
Computational Design and Optimization of Quad Meshes Based on Diagonal Meshes
Services
Academic Services
Peer Reviewer
Conferences / Journals
- SIGGRAPH
- CVPR, ECCV
- NeurIPS, ICLR
- 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
Senior Research Associate
PhD Students
- Andrew Simpson since 2024
- Fangyu Zhou since 2026
- Ava Holmes since 2026 Co-supervised with Prof Graham Finlayson
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, Jiachen Shan, Keelan Reddings, Joe Harris.
2025-26: Anthony Wong, Katy Frost, Sean Atanacio, Lorenzo Francisco, Toby Mountford, Louis French (now at Nutanix), Ollie Jones (now at CGI).
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 (now at Sinara)
- Yinghao Wang - University of Cambridge, 2025 (now at Tencent)
Visitors / Invited Speakers
- Dr Abdalla G.M. Ahmed - Invited Talk: "Marketing a Graphics Research Paper"
Contact
Get in Touch
Email: Cheng.C.Wang[at]uea.ac.uk
