Machine Learning Group Computer Science University of Toronto Email:   wangjk (at) cs (dot) toronto (dot) edu LinkedIn  /  Twitter  /  GitHub  /  Google Scholar  /  CV |
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I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate at University of Toronto. My advisor is Prof. Raquel Urtasun. I am also part of Vector Institute and a Sr Tech Lead Manager at Waabi, leading World Models and Digital Twins team. From 2019-2021, I was also a research scientist at Uber-ATG Toronto. I received my B.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University working with Prof. Cewu Lu and Prof. Gongshen Liu. Prior to UofT, I spent a wonderful year working with Prof. Bo Li at UIUC on trustworthy ML as a research intern. My research aims to advance physical AI and world modeling to enhance AI autonomy safety, with a focus on self-driving cars. I develop scalable and generalizable 4D world simulators from constrained, noisy sensory data using neural rendering and generative AI. These simulators bridge the sim-to-real gap by supporting closed-loop testing and generating physically plausible counterfactuals, which rigorously improves AI autonomy. The long-term goal is to build greater spatial intelligence into autonomous systems for safer operation in the physical world. I am on the academic job market 2025-2026. |
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My research interest is to scale the data-driven simulation (realistic, robust, scalable, generalizable, efficient) by inferring or grounding the 3D world (graphics, physics) to ensure the safe deployment of robotic systems. Some papers are highlighted. |
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Ze Yang, Jingkang Wang, Haowei Zhang, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Yun Chen, Raquel Urtasun Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 project page / paper / bibtex |
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Yun Chen*, Jingkang Wang*, Ze Yang, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Raquel Urtasun European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 project page / paper / bibtex |
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Ava Pun*, Gary Sun*, Jingkang Wang*, Yun Chen, Ze Yang, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Wei-Chiu Ma, Raquel Urtasun Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023 project page / paper / video / 4K demo / bibtex |
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Jay Sarva, Jingkang Wang, James Tu, Yuwen Xiong, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Raquel Urtasun Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023 project page / paper / video / poster / bibtex |
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Sivabalan Manivasagam*, Ioan Andrei Bârsan*, Jingkang Wang, Ze Yang, Raquel Urtasun International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023 project page / paper / video / poster / bibtex |
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Jeffrey Liu, Yun Chen*, Ze Yang*, Jingkang Wang, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Raquel Urtasun International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023 project page / paper / video / poster / bibtex |
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Ze Yang*, Yun Chen*, Jingkang Wang*, Sivabalan Manivasagam*, Wei-Chiu Ma, Anqi Joyce Yang, Raquel Urtasun Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023 (Highlight) project page / paper / video / poster / 4K demo / bibtex |
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Yuwen Xiong, Wei-Chiu Ma, Jingkang Wang, Raquel Urtasun Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023 project page / paper / video / poster / bibtex |
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Ze Yang, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Yun Chen, Jingkang Wang, Rui Hu, Raquel Urtasun IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023 project page / video / poster / bibtex |
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Jingkang Wang, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Yun Chen, Ze Yang, Ioan Andrei Bârsan, Anqi Joyce Yang, Wei-Chiu Ma, Raquel Urtasun Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2022 project page / paper / video / bibtex |
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Jingkang Wang, Ava Pun, James Tu, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Abbas Sadat, Sergio Casas, Mengye Ren, Raquel Urtasun Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021 project page / paper / poster / video / bibtex |
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Sean Segal*, Nishanth Kumar*, Sergio Casas, Wenyuan Zeng, Mengye Ren, Jingkang Wang, Raquel Urtasun Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021 paper / poster / bibtex |
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James Tu*, Tsunhsuan Wang*, Jingkang Wang, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Mengye Ren, Raquel Urtasun International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021 paper / video / bibtex |
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Jingkang Wang*, Hongyi Guo*, Zhaowei Zhu*, Yang Liu Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021 project page / paper / code / poster / bibtex |
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Jingkang Wang*, Tianyun Zhang*, Sijia Liu, Pin-Yu Chen, Jiacen Xu, Makan Fardad, Bo Li Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021 project page / paper / code / poster / bibtex |
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Nicholas Vadivelu, Mengye Ren, James Tu, Jingkang Wang, Raquel Urtasun Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2020 paper / video / bibtex |
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Jingkang Wang*, Mengye Ren*, Ilija Bogunovic, Yuwen Xiong, Raquel Urtasun International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), RealML Workshop, 2020 paper / video / bibtex |
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Tianshi Cao*, Jingkang Wang*, Annie Zhang*, Sivabalan Manivasagam* International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), BeTR-RL Workshop, 2020 paper / code / media / bibtex |
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Jingkang Wang, Yang Liu, Bo Li AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020 (Spotlight) paper / code / bibtex |
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Jingkang Wang*, Jianing Zhou*, Jie Zhou, Gongshen Liu Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Student Research Workshop, 2019 paper / code / bibtex |
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Yiping Chen*, Jingkang Wang*, Jonathan Li, Cewu Lu, Zhipeng Luo, Han Xue, Cheng Wang Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018 project page / paper / code / bibtex |
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Ze Yang, Jingkang Wang, Haowei Zhang, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Yun Chen, Raquel Urtasun Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025 project page / paper / bibtex |
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Yun Chen*, Jingkang Wang*, Ze Yang, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Raquel Urtasun European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 project page / paper / bibtex |
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Ava Pun*, Gary Sun*, Jingkang Wang*, Yun Chen, Ze Yang, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Wei-Chiu Ma, Raquel Urtasun Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023 project page / paper / video / 4K demo / bibtex |
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Ze Yang*, Yun Chen*, Jingkang Wang*, Sivabalan Manivasagam*, Wei-Chiu Ma, Anqi Joyce Yang, Raquel Urtasun Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023 (Highlight) project page / paper / video / poster / 4K demo / bibtex |
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Jingkang Wang, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Yun Chen, Ze Yang, Ioan Andrei Bârsan, Anqi Joyce Yang, Wei-Chiu Ma, Raquel Urtasun Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2022 project page / paper / video / bibtex |
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Jingkang Wang, Ava Pun, James Tu, Sivabalan Manivasagam, Abbas Sadat, Sergio Casas, Mengye Ren, Raquel Urtasun Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021 project page / paper / poster / video / bibtex |
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Ava Pun (Undergrad, CS UWaterloo)
neural lighting simulation and inverse rendering, now PhD at CMU. |
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Last update: June, 2025.
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