About Me

PhD researcher in Computer Vision at the University of York, supervised by Prof. William Smith, researching 4D scene reconstruction and neural rendering applied to monitoring of glaciers. My work involves disentangling lighting from scene geometry to handle appearance differences, and incorporating physical priors into learning methods to better understand scene dynamics and how to extract them from spatially and temporally sparse imagery. This research focus evolved from the overlap of robotics and computer vision in my undergraduate projects on robot teleoperation and environment visualisation, and autonomous UAV landing algorithms. Working at PXLD has also expanded my research areas to cover video foundation models, clean-plate generation, and generative computer vision. My interest in glaciology and climate science stems from my international background growing up in mountainous regions of China and Kyrgyzstan, where I was able to see how the climate impacts people and places.