Tianyi is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research. He did his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was advised by Chenfanfu Jiang and Demetri Terzopoulos. He received his B.Eng. in Software Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on bridging physics-based simulation and generative AI, embedding physical priors into generative pipelines to produce visually compelling and physically consistent content, with applications spanning computer graphics, embodied AI, and robotics.