Yichuan (Ethan) Deng

My research lies at the intersection of 3D computer vision, vision-language models, and embodied AI. I am particularly interested in building structured and persistent representations of the physical world that enable models to ground language, maintain memory over long-horizon visual streams, and perform spatial reasoning.

During my undergraduate studies and the first two years of my Ph.D., I worked primarily on theoretical computer science, with a focus on data structures, numerical linear algebra, and algorithms. I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology from the School of the Gifted Young at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).

Outside of research, I enjoy photography. You can find a selection of my work in the gallery.