Texas ECE graduate student Peihao Wang has received a 2025 Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning and ML Foundations.

The Google PhD Fellowship Program was created to recognize outstanding graduate students doing exceptional and innovative research in areas relevant to computer science and related fields. Fellowships support promising PhD candidates of all backgrounds who seek to influence the future of technology.

Peihao is doing scientific research in the areas of machine learning and computer vision, under the supervision of Prof. Atlas Wang at the VITA Group. His current research focuses on theories and applications of geometric learning, language models, generative models, and 3D computer vision. He received his bachelor's degree fromShanghai tech University in 2021.

He received a Best Paper award at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 and a DARPA Disruptive Idea Paper Award in 2025.