My name is Tianhao Zhao (赵天豪). I am currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), working in the HUST Media Lab under the supervision of Prof. Wei Yang. Before that, I received my B.S. degree from the School of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, HUST, in 2024. My research interests include 3D mesh generation and diffusion models.

Apart from my research, I enjoy playing Valorant, where I often take on the role of the in-game leader (IGL)😂😂😂.

🔥 News

• 2026.05:  🎉🎉 My first paper “LATO: 3D Mesh Flow Matching with Structured TOpology Preserving LAtents” was received by ICML2026.

📝 Publications

Equal contribution⋆ Corresponding author$\dagger$

arXiv 2026

LATO.2: Factorized 3D Mesh Generation with Vertex and Topology Flow

Hang Long*, Tianhao Zhao*, Junkai Lin, Youjia Zhang, Huipeng Guo, Rendong Liang, Jiale Xu, Jozef Hladký, Matthias Nießner, Yuanming Hu, Wei Yang$\dagger$

Paper | Code

• We present LATO.2, a factorized flow matching framework that splits mesh generation into a vertex flow followed by a vertex-conditioned connectivity flow over a shared voxel scaffold, enabling part-wise high-resolution synthesis and topology-adaptive editing.

ICML 2026

LATO: 3D Mesh Flow Matching with Structured TOpology Preserving LAtents

Tianhao Zhao*, Youjia Zhang*, Hang Long, Jinshen Zhang, Wenbing Li, Yang Yang, Gongbo Zhang, Jozef Hladký, Matthias Nießner, Wei Yang$\dagger$

Paper | Project Page | Code

• We introduce LATO, a novel topology-preserving latent representation that enables scalable, flow matching-based synthesis of explicit 3D meshes.

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2021 National Scholarship
• 2021 Outstanding Undergraduates in Term of Academic Performance (Top 1%)
• 2024 Outstanding Graduate Students

📖 Educations

• Sept 2020 - June. 2024, Undergraduate, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
• Sept. 2024 - Present, PhD, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

💬 Invited Talks

• Mar. 2026: Invited Talk for Meshy.

💻 Internships

• 2026.05 - Present, Generative AI researcher intern, Meshy.