Shenlong Wang

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Biography

Shenlong Wang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He works on computer vision and robotics, with a focus on understanding, modeling, and simulating the physical world for content creation, robotics, and AI for science. His work has received paper awards and finalist recognitions at ISMAR, IROS, and CVPR, and he is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.

Research Interests

• Simulation
• Autonomous Driving
• Robotics
• Computer Vision

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• Bhargav Chandaka, Gloria Xinyue Wang, Haozhe Chen, Henry Che, Albert J. Zhai, Shenlong Wang, "Human-like Navigation in a World Built for Humans," Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 15.97%)
• Hanxiao Jiang, Hao-Yu Hsu, Kaifeng Zhang, Hsin-Ni Yu, Shenlong Wang, Yunzhu Li, "PhysTwin: Physics-Informed Reconstruction and Simulation of Deformable Objects from Videos," IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 24%)
• Tianhang Cheng, Albert J. Zhai, Evan Z. Chen, Rui Zhou, Yawen Deng, Zitong Li, Kejie Zhao, Janice Shiu, Qianyu Zhao, Yide Xu, Xinlei Wang, Yuan Shen, Sheng Wang, Lisa Ainsworth, Kaiyu Guan, Shenlong Wang, "Demeter: A Parametric Model of Crop Plant Morphology from the Real World," IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 24%)
• Shaowei Liu, Zhongzheng Ren, Saurabh Gupta, Shenlong Wang, “PhysGen: Rigid-Body Physics-Grounded Image-to-Video Generation," European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024. (Acceptance Rate: 27.9%)
• Hongchi Xia, Zhi-Hao Lin, Wei-Chiu Ma, Shenlong Wang, "Video2Game: Real-time, Interactive, Realistic and Browser-Compatible Environment from a Single Video," International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024. (Acceptance Rate: 23.6%)
• Yuan Li, Zhi-Hao Lin, Jia-Bin Huang, David Forsyth, Shenlong Wang, "ClimateNeRF: Extreme Weather Synthesis in Neural Radiance Field," International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023. (Acceptance Rate: 26.15%)

Teaching Honors

• Teacher Ranked as Excellent, Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024 )

Research Honors

• ISMAR Best Paper (2025)
• Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2025)
• Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER), National Science Foundation (2024)
• Amazon Faculty Research Award (2022)
• Best Paper Candidate, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (2021)
• Best Application Paper Finalist, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (2020)