Junyi Cao
About Me
I am currently a second-year PhD student at UMass Amherst, supervised by Prof. Chuang Gan
and Prof. Evangelos Kalogerakis.
Previously, I earned my Master's Degree from SJTU, under the guidance of Prof. Chao Ma,
and my Bachelor's Degree from SCUT, advised by Prof. Mingkui Tan.
My research aims to develop intelligent machine systems capable of comprehending, reasoning, and acting in the real world, much like humans do.
Recently, I have focused more on AI systems' interaction with the physical world.
Publications
IM-ENGINE: Image Editing for Embodied Data Generation
CoRL 2026
Yian Wang*, Junyi Cao*, Xiaowen Qiu, Chuang Gan (* indicates equal contribution)
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DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
ICML 2026
Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong, Chunru Lin, Zhehuan Chen, Chuang Gan
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SOPHY: Generating Simulation-Ready Objects with Physical Materials
WACV 2026
Junyi Cao, Evangelos Kalogerakis
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NeuMA: Neural Material Adaptor for Visual Grounding of Intrinsic Dynamics
NeurIPS 2024
Junyi Cao, Shanyan Guan, Yanhao Ge, Wei Li, Xiaokang Yang, Chao Ma
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Lightning NeRF: Efficient Hybrid Scene Representation for Autonomous Driving
ICRA 2024
Junyi Cao, Zhichao Li, Naiyan Wang, Chao Ma
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End-to-End Reconstruction-Classification Learning for Face Forgery Detection
CVPR 2022
Junyi Cao, Chao Ma, Taiping Yao, Shen Chen, Shouhong Ding, Xiaokang Yang
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