University of Illinois Chicago · Computer Science

Guorui Sang

PhD Student & Graduate Research Assistant

I work with Prof. Pedram Rooshenas at UIC. My research focuses on diffusion and other generative models: making sampling fast and keeping generated outputs physically consistent. I apply this to robot trajectories, singing voice, and images, and I also design Transformer architectures that work on continuous data (neural operators).

Diffusion & Generative ModelsPhysics-Informed MLNeural OperatorsRobot Trajectory Generation

Seeking Summer 2027 research internships

Expected PhD graduation: 2030

Guorui Sang

Selected Publications

Preprint
2026

Function-Space Transformer with Adaptive Anchors

Guorui Sang, Pedram Rooshenas

arXiv preprint · Submitted to ICLR 2027

A Transformer that works on continuous functions instead of fixed grids: it learns where to place latent anchors and refines them recursively, and can be queried at any resolution.

Workshop
2026

Hamiltonian-Guided Diffusion Fields for Variable-Length Rigid-Arm Trajectory Generation

Guorui Sang, Pedram Rooshenas

ICLR 2026 · ReALM-GEN Workshop

Combines diffusion probabilistic fields with Hamiltonian guidance for variable-length robotic trajectory generation.

Conference
2025

ConSinger: Efficient High-Fidelity Singing Voice Generation with Minimal Steps

Yulin Song*, Guorui Sang*, Jing Yu, Chuangbai Xiao

* Equal contribution

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

A consistency model for efficient singing voice synthesis. I co-developed the method and designed a quality scorer to select the denoising starting point.

Research

Methods I develop and the problems they address

Function-Space Transformer with Adaptive Anchors

arXiv 2609.38348 · Submitted to ICLR 2027

  • Proposed Recursive FST for operator learning to preserve local detail and capture long-range dependencies with a compact latent representation.
  • Designed input-dependent spatial anchors and recursive attention over a continuous feature field. The model supports queries at arbitrary coordinates.
  • Experiments evaluate the framework on PDE prediction and image classification.
Neural OperatorsTransformersContinuous Representations

Hamiltonian-Guided Trajectory Generation

Extended paper submitted to ICRA 2027

  • Proposed Hamiltonian-guided diffusion to generate physically plausible robotic trajectories across variable horizons without a simulator at inference.
  • Formulated an energy function from Hamiltonian residuals for guided sampling. Gradient guidance and importance resampling use this energy to steer the diffusion denoising process.
  • Evaluation uses simulated robot-arm trajectories in MuJoCo. This ongoing project extends our ICLR 2026 ReALM-GEN Workshop paper.
Diffusion ModelsHamiltonian DynamicsGuided SamplingRobotics

Pose-Guided Person Image Generation (M.S. Thesis)

M.S. thesis, Beijing University of Technology

  • Built a diffusion model for pose-guided person image generation with a three-branch U-Net and mixed classifier-free guidance.
  • Achieved the best SSIM and PSNR compared with PIDM, UPGPT, NTED, and DPTN.
Diffusion ModelsImage GenerationComputer Vision

ConSinger

ICASSP 2025 · Equal contribution

Jul 2024 - Dec 2024

  • Co-developed a consistency model for efficient singing voice synthesis. Designed a quality scorer to select the denoising starting point.
  • On PopCS: 2.8× faster than DiffSinger (RTF 0.018 vs. 0.052), better FAD (0.32 vs. 0.88), and MOS 3.88 vs. 3.81.
Consistency ModelsAudio GenerationSinging Voice Synthesis

Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

University of Illinois Chicago

Chicago, IL

Research May 2026 - Present
  • Conduct research with Prof. Pedram Rooshenas in diffusion models, physics-informed machine learning, and neural operators.
  • Develop and evaluate function-space Transformers and models for robotic trajectory generation using PyTorch.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois Chicago

Chicago, IL

Teaching Aug 2025 - May 2026
  • Led MATLAB labs for more than 30 students, helping students develop practical programming and problem-solving skills.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

University of Illinois Chicago

Chicago, IL, USA

Aug 2025 - Present GPA: 4.00/4.00

Advisor: Professor Pedram Rooshenas

Expected graduation: 2030. Research in diffusion models, neural operators, and robot dynamics.

M.S. in Computer Science

Beijing University of Technology

Beijing, China

Sep 2022 - Jul 2025 GPA: 3.94/4.0

Specialized in conditional image generation using diffusion models.

B.S. in Software Engineering

Hainan University

Haikou, Hainan, China

Sep 2017 - Jul 2021 GPA: 3.66/4.0

Skills & Expertise

Languages & Frameworks

PythonC/C++PyTorchPyTorch Lightning

Research Tools

MuJoCoWeights & BiasesGitLinux

Research Areas

Diffusion ModelsNeural OperatorsPhysics-Informed MLRobot Dynamics

Books

Book
2023

《计算机考研精炼 1000 题》(Computer Science Graduate Examination: 1000 Exercises)

睿德, 非晚, 宇航, 栗子

Tsinghua University Press

Co-author and associate editor under the pen name Yuhang (宇航).

Contributed to the data structures section, organizing core theories and concepts alongside 300 problems and solutions across approximately 170 pages.