Yu Lei

"The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought."
Yu Lei

Hi! I'm Yu Lei (雷 宇), a first-year PhD student at UT Austin, advised by Prof. Yuke Zhu.

Previously, I was fortunate to collaborate with Dr. Zhengyi Luo, Prof. Kris Kitani at Carnegie Mellon University, and Prof. Zhuowen Tu at UC San Diego. I obtained B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where I worked with Prof. Bingbing Ni and Prof. Zhijie Deng.

My research interests span robot learning, generative modelling, and representation learning.

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Scalable Humanoid Whole-body Control via Differentiable Neural Network Dynamics
Yu Lei, Zhengyi Luo, Tairan He, Jinkun Cao, Guanya Shi, Kris Kitani
ICLRW 2025 on World Models (Oral)
Paper Project
Advancing Text-to-3D Generation with Linearized Lookahead Variational Score Distillation
Yu Lei, Bingde Liu, Qingsong Xie, Zhijie Deng
ICCV 2025
Paper
L2VSD
Bayesian Diffusion Models for 3D Shape Reconstruction
Yu Lei*, Haiyang Xu*, Zeyuan Chen, Xiang Zhang, Yue Zhao, Yilin Wang, Zhuowen Tu
CVPR 2024
Paper Code Project
BDM
Bayesian Exploration of Pre-trained Models for Low-shot Image Classification
Yibo Miao, Yu Lei, Feng Zhou, Zhijie Deng
CVPR 2024
Paper
Bayesian Exploration
FocalDreamer: Text-driven 3D Editing via Focal-fusion Assembly
Yuhan Li, Yishun Dou, Yue Shi, Yu Lei, Xuanhong Chen, Peng Zhou, Bingbing Ni
AAAI 2024
Paper Code Project
FocalDreamer