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OX1 3PJ, 23 Banbury Road

Oxford, UK

Jianhao Yuan

I am a DPhil (PhD) student of University of Oxford, supervised by Prof. Daniele De Martini, Prof. Paul Newman, and Prof. Philip Torr. I also closely work with Prof. Lars Kunze and Dr. Matt Gadd. Prior to this, I completed my undergraduate studies in Engineering Science also at University of Oxford. Previously, I worked as research intern at Meta FAIR, Amazon, and Oxa. My research focuses on developing physically plausible video world models and their applications.

Personal email: yuanjianhao2019@gmail.com

Work email: jianhaoyuan@robots.ox.ac.uk

News

Feb 22, 2026 WMReward has been accepted to CVPR 2026!
Jan 28, 2026 LikePhys has been accepted to ICLR 2026!
Nov 1, 2025 Our solution WMReward won first place in the ICCV 2025 Physics-IQ Challenge!
Jun 16, 2025 Excited to start as a Research Scientist Intern at FAIR Meta!
Sep 2, 2024 Excited to start as a Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon!

Selected Publications

  1. LikePhys: Evaluating Intuitive Physics Understanding in Video Diffusion Models via Likelihood Preference
    Jianhao Yuan, Fabio Pizzati, Francesco Pinto, and 5 more authors
    ICLR, 2026
  2. Inference-time Physics Alignment of Video Generative Models with Latent World Models
    Jianhao Yuan, Xiaofeng Zhang, Felix Friedrich, and 7 more authors
    CVPR, 2026
  3. RAG-Driver: Generalisable Driving Explanations with Retrieval-Augmented In-Context Learning in Multi-Modal Large Language Model
    Jianhao Yuan, Shuyang Sun, Daniel Omeiza, and 4 more authors
    RSS, 2024
  4. Not Just Pretty Pictures: Toward Interventional Data Augmentation Using Text-to-Image Generators
    Jianhao Yuan, Francesco Pinto, Adam Davies, and 1 more author
    ICML, 2024
  5. Real-Fake: Effective Training Data Synthesis Through Distribution Matching
    Jianhao Yuan, Jie Zhang, Shuyang Sun, and 2 more authors
    ICLR, 2024