Kuan-Chih Huang I am an EECS Ph.D. student (Aug. 2023–) at University of California, Merced, advised by Prof. Ming-Hsuan Yang, and working closely with Dr. Yi-Hsuan Tsai. I was a student researcher at Google DeepMind in 2025. I received my B.S. in Physics and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, and later spent a year as a full-time research assistant working with Prof. Winston H. Hsu. My current research focuses on representation learning and world modeling.