Tan Guan Yuan

Carnegie Mellon · Monash

Tan Guan Yuan

I build intelligent systems that perceive physical properties and causal rules from visual data, toward cognitive digital twins.

Research From pixels to physics to action
01

4D Reconstruction

Recovering geometry and motion of dynamic scenes from monocular video in real time.

02

Simulation & Physics

Estimating mass, friction, and contact from observation, so a reconstruction can be simulated forward rather than merely replayed.

03

Robotics

Perception for loco-manipulation: what a robot must infer about a scene before it makes contact.

Selected Publications Full list on Scholar ↗
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Aug 2026 — Present

Visiting Scholar

Robotics Institute — AirLab, Carnegie Mellon University

Host: Prof. Sebastian Scherer

Monash University
Nov 2023 — Present

PhD Candidate

Monash University

4D reconstruction, simulation, and robotics

Monash University
Jul 2019 — Jul 2023

B.Eng. (Honours), Robotics Engineering

Monash University

Industry Experience
Intel Corporation
Internship

System-on-Chip Design Intern

Intel Corporation

Design Enablement Group — DTCO, APR team

ViTrox Corporation Berhad
Internship

Research & Development (AI) Intern

ViTrox Corporation Berhad

Teaching Teaching Assistant · Monash University
FIT5215Deep LearningPostgraduate
FIT5222Planning and Automated ReasoningPostgraduate
FIT5217Natural Language ProcessingPostgraduate
FIT5216Modelling Discrete Optimization ProblemsPostgraduate
FIT3181Deep LearningUndergraduate
Academic Service Reviewer
Conferences
  • CVPR — IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • ECCV — European Conference on Computer Vision
  • ACML — Asian Conference on Machine Learning
Journals
  • Machine Learning (Springer)
  • Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier)