Ge Cao

About me

I am currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical & Computer Engineering at UIUC, working with Prof. Dr. Zhen Peng.

Previously, I received my master degree from Department of Mathematics in ETH Zürich, majoring in Computational Science and Engineering. My master thesis in Computer Graphics area was supervised by Prof. Dr. Markus Gross. I also worked with Prof. Dr. Ralf Hiptmair on the mathematics of BEM algorithms.

I received my Bachelor's degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from University of Science and Technology of China in 2020, with a dual major in Computer Science and Technology. My Bachelor thesis of Molecular Dynamics was supervised by Prof. Dr. Fengchao Wang.

My research focuses on machine learning, Multi-Physics simulation and computational methods.

Contact

gecao2 [at] illinois.edu
+1 (217) 841 8609

CV

Researches

Photon Splatting: A Physics-Guided Neural Surrogate for Real-Time Wireless Channel Prediction

Ge Cao, Gabriele Gradoni, Zhen Peng.

Arxiv, 2025 Read more...

RayProNet: A Neural Point Field Framework for Radio Propagation Modeling in 3D Environments

Ge Cao, Zhen Peng.

IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, 2024 Read more...

A Scalable Multi-Physics Simulation of Dancing Ferrofluid.

Ge Cao, Zhen Peng.

2024 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium (ACES). Read more...

Education

PhD. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Zhen Peng

2023 - present
Champaign, USA

MSc. of Computational Science and Engineering

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Gross, Prof. Dr. Ralf Hiptmair

2020 - 2023
Zurich, Switzerland

BSc. of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

BEng. of Computer Science and Technology (dual major)

Advisor: Prof. Dr. Fengchao Wang, Prof. Dr. Yun Xu

2016 - 2020
Hefei, China

Experience

Graphics Engineer Intern

2021/11 - 2023/05
Remote

Game Developer Intern

2020/07 - 2020/09
Guangzhou, China

Worked at Onmyoji (阴阳师) group, where I was an intern for game engine developing.

Summer research Intern

2019/07 - 2019/09
Enschede, Netherlands

Worked at Physics of Fluid group, where I was doing my summer research intern in fluid simulation area. I was supervised by Prof. Dr. Detlef Lohse and Prof. Dr. Yanshen Li.

Projects

Implementation for usual rendering algorithm

In this project, a lot of rendering algorithm has been developed, including Path Tracing, Photon Mapping, Heterogeneous Volumetric Photon Mapping, Depth of Field, etc. Read more...

Implementation for multiphase fluid simulation, with Lattice Boltzmann based method.

In this project, rather than only a regularly single phase can be simulated in the scene, we can simulate more phases, such like both oil and water, gas and fluid, etc. Read more...

Style transfer of clothing, with deep learning on fractal as style input.

In this project, a style transfer for clothing has been implemented, while the input of style is learned from a fractal algorithm with deep learning in Fourier operator. Read more...