About
I am Jiankuo Zhao, a second-year direct Ph.D. student in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Before joining CASIA, I received my B.Eng. degree in Automation from Central South University in 2024. I am advised by Prof. Zhen Lei and Prof. Xiangyu Zhu.
My current research interests include 3D digital humans, world models, Real2Sim, and 3D generation.
Selected Publications
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STAvatar: Soft Binding and Temporal Density Control for Monocular 3D Head Avatars Reconstruction
Jiankuo Zhao, Xiangyu Zhu, Zidu Wang, Zhen Lei
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026
Education
PhD Student
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 2024 - Present
Direct PhD student advised by Prof. Zhen Lei and Prof. Xiangyu Zhu.
B.Eng. in Automation
Central South University | 2020 - 2024