Yifan Wang
(also publish as Wang Yifan)
Member of Technical Staff @ Prometheus
I’m striving to push the frontier models to reason and model the physical world.
I earned my PhD title at ETH’s Interactive Geometry Lab under the mentorship of Professor Olga Sorkine-Hornung. Then I spent 2 years as a postdoc at Stanford University’s Computational Imaging Lab working with Professor Gordon Wetzstein.
My contributions to the field have been recognized through prestigious accolades, including being named an Apple AI/ML fellow and receiving the highly competitive Swiss Postdoc.Mobility fellowship. Moreover, I am humbled to have been awarded the esteemed ETH Medal in 2022 for my exceptional doctoral thesis and honored with the Best PhD Thesis Award by Eurographics in 2023.
I have served as in the Technical Paper Committee for SIGGRAPH and SIGGRAPH Asia (2024), and as Area Chair at CVPR 2025, 3DV (2025, 2024), and AAAI 2026.
News
04/2026: Three internship projects from last summer were accepted to CVPR: SuperFit (oral), tttLRM (highlight), and Illustrator’s Depth!
08/2025: Isa presented our paper RigAnything last week at SIGGRAPH! The paper was accepted to the journal track.
06/2025: We are presenting our paper ShapeShifter at CVPR Nashville. See you there! Nissim will be interning with us this summer after CVPR - looking forward to another exciting project.
Selected Publications
Teaching and Mentorship
2022:
I served as a mentor for Summer Geometry Initiative 2022 working with 3 brillian students: Ruyu Yan, Nursena Korprucu and Sara Wang. Please check out what we explored here:
I am a proud mentor at CSNOW (Network of Women in Computer Science).
2019-2021:
- I co-supervised the following master theses and semester projects:
- Sep 2020: Lukas Rahmann (Master thesis)
- May 2020: Viviane Yang (Semester project)
- Jan 2020: Lixin Xue (Semeter project)
- Feb 2019: Lea auf der Maur (Master thesis)
- Mar 2019: Felice Seren (Semester Project)
2017-2020:
- I am (/was) a teaching assistant for the following courses at ETH: