🐲 About Xulong

Hello! I’m Xulong Tang, you can call me Ben!

I am a third-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas(UTD). My research is primarily advised by Professor Rawan Alghofaili and co-advised by Professor Balakrishnan Prabhakaran.

Research Interests:

Digital Human
3D Motion Generation
Human-Centered Interactive Systems
Video Generation

In addition to my research, I am also a game developer:

I have used Unity to create a VR educational game for teaching children about the universe at the Sci-Tech Discovery Center.

I have also contributed to the development of an unreleased third-person survival shooter game using Unreal Engine and C++, where I was responsible for gameplay and user interface.

🔥 News

2026.07: 🎉🎉 CustomDance was conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2026.
2026.06: 🎉🎉 FlowerDance and OmniDance were accepted at ECCV 2026.
2026.03: 🎉🎉 MACE-Dance was accepted at SIGGRAPH 2026.
2026.03: 🎉🎉 TokenDance was accepted at CVPR Workshop 2026.
2026.01: 🎉🎉 Personalized Dance Synthesis was accepted at IEEE VR 2026.
2025.09: 🎉🎉 MEGADance was accepted at NeurIPS 2025.
2025.07: 🎉🎉 CoheDancers was accepted at ACM Multimedia 2025.
2024.06: 🎉🎉 CoDancers and BeatDance were accepted at ICMR 2024.
2024.01: 🎉🎉 Started my PhD at The University of Texas at Dallas.

📝 Selected Publications

* denotes equal contribution.

SIGGRAPH Asia 2026

CustomDance: Customized 3D Dance Generation with Coarse-to-Fine Human-Centered Interactive Control

Xulong Tang, Kaixing Yang, Xiaohu Guo, Prabhakaran Balakrishnan, Rawan Alghofaili

ECCV 2026

FlowerDance: MeanFlow for Efficient and Refined 3D Dance Generation

Kaixing Yang*, Xulong Tang*, Ziqiao Peng, Xiangyue Zhang, Chubin Chen, Xukun Zhou, Puwei Wang, Hongyan Liu, Jun He

ECCV 2026 - Oral

OmniDance: Multimodal Driven Dance Video Generation with Large-scale Internet Data preview

OmniDance: Multimodal Driven Dance Video Generation with Large-scale Internet Data Oral

Kaixing Yang, Jiashu Zhu, Xulong Tang, Ziqiao Peng, Xiangyue Zhang, Chubin Chen, Puwei Wang, Jiahong Wu, Xiangxiang Chu, Hongyan Liu, Jun He

SIGGRAPH 2026

MACE-Dance: Motion-Appearance Cascaded Experts for Music-Driven Dance Video Generation

Kaixing Yang, Jiashu Zhu, Xulong Tang, Ziqiao Peng, Xiangyue Zhang, Puwei Wang, Jiahong Wu, Xiangxiang Chu, Hongyan Liu, Jun He

IEEE VR 2026

Personalized Dance Synthesis Based on Physical and Cognitive Intensities

Xulong Tang, Eun Yeo, Ruiyu Mao, Xiaohu Guo, Rawan Alghofaili

NeurIPS 2025

MEGADance: Mixture-of-Experts Architecture for Genre-Aware 3D Dance Generation

Kaixing Yang*, Xulong Tang*, Ziqiao Peng, Yuxuan Hu, Jun He, Hongyan Liu

ACM MM 2025

CoheDancers: Interactive Group Dance Generation via Music-Driven Coherence Decomposition

Kaixing Yang*, Xulong Tang*, Haoyu Wu, Qinliang Xue, Biao Qin, Hongyan Liu, Zhaoxin Fan

📖 Education

2024.01 - present, PhD in Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
2023.09 - 2024.01, Master of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
2018.09 - 2022.06, Undergraduate, Xidian University, Xi’an, China

💼 Professional Experience

Reviewer

CVPR (2025–2026)
ECCV (2026)
Multimedia Systems (2026)
IEEE Transactions on Computers (2024–2025)
IEEE Virtual Reality (2024–2025)

Instructor

Augmented Reality 3D User Interface Design Workshop (2024)
Human-Centered eXtended Reality Lab (2024)

Teaching Assistant

CS4332: Introduction to Programming Video Games (2025)
CS6331: Human-Computer Interaction (2024)

💻 Internships

2021.12 - 2022.06, Unreal Engine Developer, Shengqu Games, Shanghai, China

Xulong Tang (Ben)