About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Professor Sarita Adve.

My research focuses on systems for spatial computing and embodied AI, with interests in scalable infrastructure, algorithm–system co-design, and distributed systems. I build energy-efficient XR systems that balance power, latency, and quality, including Boba for physics-based Gaussian digital twins and Ada for real-time scene provisioning. I also contribute to the Illinois Extended Reality Testbed (ILLIXR) and have collaborated with Meta Reality Labs since 2024.

In summer 2026, I was a Ph.D. intern on NVIDIA’s XR team, working on scalable ML training and data infrastructure for 3D hand reconstruction. Previously, I received my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech, where I worked with Professor Binoy Ravindran during my master’s studies.

CV (September 2026, PDF) · Email · Google Scholar

Selected Publications

• Boba: Batched Simulation for Physics-Based Gaussian Digital Twins

  Y. Pang, H. Jiang, S. Kondguli, S. Adve, S. Wang

  ECCV 2026

• Ada: A Distributed, Power-Aware, Real-Time Scene Provider for XR

  Y. Pang, S. Kondguli, S. Wang, S. Adve

  IEEE TVCG, ISMAR 2025 Special Issue · ISMAR 2025

  Best Paper Award (ISMAR 2025)

• RemoteVIO: Towards a Practical End-to-End VR System with Head Tracking Offloading

  Q. Jiang, Y. Pang, W. Sentosa, S. Gao, H. Muhammad, J. Zhang, J. Perez-Ramirez, D. Das, D. Cavalcanti, B. Godfrey, S. Adve

  ACM MMSys 2025

• ILLIXR: Enabling End-to-End Extended Reality Research

  H. Muhammad, R. Desai, S. Grayson, X. Jiang, Y. Jiang, Y. Jing, J. Lee, F. Lu, Y. Pang, J. Ravichandran, F. Sinclair, B. Tian, H. Yuan, J. Zhang, S. Adve

  IEEE IISWC 2021

  Best Paper Award (IISWC 2021); IEEE Micro Top Pick

• Quantifying Memory Underutilization in HPC Systems and Using It to Improve Performance via Architecture Support

  G. Panwar*, D. Zhang*, Y. Pang*, M. Dahshan, N. DeBardeleben, B. Ravindran, X. Jian

  IEEE/ACM MICRO 2019, *co-first author

  Paper (PDF)

Other Publications

• MLCD: Machine Learning-based Code Version and Device Selection for Heterogeneous Systems

  K. Cao, H. Ye, Y. Pang, D. Chen

  IEEE TC 2025

• Towards Energy-Efficiency by Navigating the Trilemma of Energy, Latency, and Accuracy

  B. Tian, Y. Pang, H. Muhammad, S. Wang, S. Adve

  IEEE ISMAR 2024

• Offloading Visual-Inertial Odometry for Low-Power Extended Reality

  Q. Jiang, H. Muhammad, W. Sentosa, J. Zhang, S. Gao, Y. Pang, H. Che, B. Godfrey, S. Adve

  IEEE VRW 2023

• AdaptiveFusion: Low-Power Scene Reconstruction

  H. Muhammad, B. Tian, Y. Pang, H. Che, S. Wang, S. Adve

  IEEE VRW 2023

• Cross-ISA Execution of SIMD Regions for Improved Performance

  Y. Pang, R. Lyerly, B. Ravindran

  ACM SYSTOR 2019

  Paper (PDF)

Manuscripts Under Review

• A Wearable Platform for Augmented Reality Systems Research

  Manuscript under review.

• Task-Aware Real-Time Depth Estimation for XR Systems

  Manuscript under review.

Misc

I name my favorite research projects after my cats. Meet Boba and Ada!