Ziyuan Xia | 夏子渊

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I am currently a third-year undergraduate at Zhejiang University, majoring in Software Engineering. I am also a research intern at ZJU3DV, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Sida Peng and Xiaowei Zhou.

I am actively looking for potential Ph.D. opportunities starting from Fall 2027, as well as research internship positions starting from Jan. 2027. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested!

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News

  • [Jul. 2026] I started my research internship at UT Austin!
  • [Jun. 2026] Habitat-GS is accepted to ECCV 2026! See you in Sweden!
  • [Feb. 2025] I joined ZJU3DV as a research intern!

Research

My research interests lie on the intersection of Embodied AI and Computer Vision. My primary research goal is to harness state-of-the-art computer vision techniques to tackle problems in embodied intelligence, specifically downstream tasks like embodied navigation and dexterous manipulation.

Publications
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Habitat-GS: A High-Fidelity Navigation Simulator with Dynamic Gaussian Splatting


Ziyuan Xia, Jingyi Xu, Chong Cui, Yuanhong Yu, Jiazhao Zhang, Qingsong Yan, Ni Tao, Junbo Chen, Xiaowei Zhou, Hujun Bao, Ruizhen Hu, Sida Peng
ECCV, 2026
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We present Habitat-GS, a navigation-centric embodied AI simulator extended from Habitat-Sim that integrates 3D Gaussian Splatting and drivable gaussian avatars.


Experiences
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The University of Texas at Austin


Research Intern at The University of Texas at Austin
2026-07 - 2026-12

I will be a research intern at UT Austin, where I’ll be fortunate to be advised by Prof. Georgios Pavlakos and Qixing Huang.
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Zhejiang University


Bachelor of Software Engineering at Zhejiang University
2023-08 - Present

GPA: 93.64/100   Ranking: 1/69
I also work as a research intern at ZJU3DV, State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, focusing on Embodied Simulation and 3D/4D Computer Vision.