Jiahao Zhang

Jiahao Zhang

Ph.D. Candidate

The Australian National University

Bio

He is currently a final-year Ph.D. student in the Research School of Computing, The Australian National University. On the one hand, he is interested in many deep learning topics, particularly video understanding and generation. On the other hand, he is an active full-stack web developer. He is currently doing a research project supervised by Professor Stephen Gould, Dr. Anoop Cherian, Dr. Yizhak Ben-Shabat, and Dr. Cristian Rodriguez. Before that, in 2021, he received his bachelor’s degree in Advanced Computing (honours) and Computer Science and Technology from The Australian National University and Shandong University respectively.

Interests
  • Agentic AI
  • Embodied AI
  • Web Development
Education
  • Ph.D. of Computer Science, 2022 - 2026

    The Australian National University

  • Bachelor of Advanced Computing (Honours), 2019 - 2021

    The Australian National University

  • Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology, 2017 - 2019

    Shandong University

Publications

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(2026). AssemblyBench: Physics-Aware Assembly of Complex Industrial Objects. In CVPR 2026.

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(2026). RoMo: A Large-Scale, Richly Organized Dataset and Semantic Taxonomy for Human Motion Generation. In CVPR 2026.

PDF Cite Code Dataset Project Poster Slides Video ArXiv

(2025). Manual-PA: Learning 3D Part Assembly from Instruction Diagrams. In ICCV 2025.

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(2025). Pos3R: 6D Pose Estimation for Unseen Objects Made Easy. In CVPR 2025.

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(2024). Temporally Grounding Instructional Diagrams in Unconstrained Videos. In WACV 2025.

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Projects

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ArXiv Toolkit
A Chrome/Edge extension to help you quickly scan through the flood of daily ArXiv papers.
ArXiv Toolkit
Manual-PA
Official implementation of Manual-PA: Learning 3D Part Assembly from Instruction Diagrams.
Manual-PA
TDGV
Official implementation of WACV 2025 Temporal Instructional Diagram Grounding in Unconstrained Videos.
TDGV
Assembly Video Manual Alignment
Official implementation of CVPR 2023 Aligning Step-by-Step Instructional Diagrams to Video Demonstrations.
Assembly Video Manual Alignment
Homepage for Ikea Assembly In the Wild (IAW) dataset
A frontend project to introduce the IAW dataset.
Homepage for Ikea Assembly In the Wild (IAW) dataset
Pytorch Lightning Template
A template for simple deep learning projects using Lightning.
Pytorch Lightning Template
CSMetrics
Institutional Publication Metrics for Computer Science.
CSMetrics
Influence Flower
Influence flower visualizes citation influences among academic entities, including papers, authors, institutions, and research topics.
Influence Flower
SlimeVerse
Official website of SlimeVerse.
SlimeVerse
Vidat
An in-browser video annotation tool developed by ANU CVML.
Vidat
Image Caption Generator
An encoder(Resnet152)-decoder(LSTM) implementation of image caption model.
Image Caption Generator
Plugin Manager
A plugin Manager based on Cpp Micro Service.
Plugin Manager
Weihai Construction Consulting System
An enterprise-level business projects(CMS for construction companies).
Weihai Construction Consulting System
School Booking System
A booking system designed for school.
School Booking System
Virtual Judge
Virtual Judge for ACM practice.
Virtual Judge

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
MetacognitionAI
Research Intern
July 2026 – October 2026 Australia (Remote)
Studied compressible, composable KVCache memory for LLMs, agents, and VLAs; formulated the problem, designed experiments, validated prototypes, and implemented context composition, occupancy measurement, and visualization.
 
 
 
 
 
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)
Research Intern
October 2025 – March 2026 Cambridge, USA
Built and evaluated AssemblyDyno to jointly predict assembly order, final poses, and 6-DoF trajectories from multimodal manuals and 3D part point clouds. On the 2,789-object AssemblyBench, it improved final-pose success by 12% and achieved roughly 33% physics-simulation success versus a 3% baseline; co-authored the CVPR 2026 paper. Implemented and trained StepPA, running pilot experiments on accumulated-error mitigation in autoregressive assembly.
 
 
 
 
 
Roblox
Research Intern
July 2025 – October 2025 San Mateo, USA
First-authored and led RoMo end to end, distilling roughly 14 years of raw video into 820K+ text-conditioned 3D motions spanning 1,237+ hours and designing a 54-category, 2,065-subcategory taxonomy; published at CVPR 2026. Independently built ProjectMay across nearly 100 servers, cutting an estimated three-month pipeline to about two weeks and continuing to support RoMo Hands. Contributed to Motion Toolbox for motion processing, quality evaluation, visualization, dataset construction, and model evaluation.
 
 
 
 
 
The Australian National University
Teaching Assistant
July 2024 – November 2024 Canberra, Australia
 
 
 
 
 
The Australian National University
Teaching Assistant
February 2024 – May 2024 Canberra, Australia
 
 
 
 
 
The Australian National University
Teaching Assistant
February 2023 – June 2023 Canberra, Australia
 
 
 
 
 
The Australian National University
Teaching Assistant
July 2022 – November 2022 Canberra, Australia
 
 
 
 
 
The Australian National University
Research Assistant
May 2022 – February 2023 Canberra, Australia
Web maintainer for InfluenceMap and CSMetrics.
 
 
 
 
 
Inspur
Intern Software Development Engineer
November 2019 – January 2020 Jinan, China
Developed a configuration-driven plugin management system for server clusters with Cpp Micro Services, implementing plugin definitions, dependency resolution, ordered startup, and cyclic-dependency detection.
 
 
 
 
 
Shandong University, Weihai, School of Mechanical, Electrical & Information Engineering
Developer of School Booking System
May 2019 – July 2019 Weihai, China
I was an independent developer of the Booking System designed to simplify the appointment process. The system is in-use till now.
 
 
 
 
 
Shandong University, Weihai, School of Mechanical, Electrical & Information Engineering
Major Developer of Weihai Construction Consulting System
March 2019 – July 2019 Weihai, China
I was a major developer(one of six) of the Weihai Construction Consulting System, which is an enterprise-level business projects.
 
 
 
 
 
Shandong University, Weihai, School of Mechanical, Electrical & Information Engineering
Major Maintainer for VJ
February 2018 – July 2019 Weihai, China
I was the major maintainer(one of three) of the VJ(Virtual Judge for ACM practice) system developed by a senior student. The system has more than 10K submissions since first published in 2017.

Awards

ANU
Postgraduate Research Scholarship
SDU
First Scholarship of Studying Abroad
SDU
First Scholarship of Abroad Special
SDU
Third Scholarship of University
SDU
Second Scholarship of Research and Innovation
SDU
Third Scholarship of University
LanQiao
LanQiao Programming Competition Province-Level Second Prize