About Me
I am a first-year CS/HCI PhD student at the University of Rochester with a focus on ARVR/GenAI.
Passionate about building the future of mixed reality where we interact with others and the world in a more meaningful and efficient way.
My interests span mixed reality, generative AI, gaming, and computer graphics.
Besides academics, I love to exercise(gym/running/basketball), read literature/fictions, and design/play games.
What I am working on
A GenAI/ARVR Review
VR GenAI Authoring Tool
VR Amputee Rehabilitation Entrepreneur Project
Research Interest
Mixed Reality
VR Performance Optimization
Human Computer Interaction in XR
Game Design and Development
Generative AI
Experience
Penn Medicine
VR Software Developer
December 2022 - Present
I work with Dr.Jean Bennett and the clinical team to implement modifications in Unity VR that will isolate specific variables affecting visual discrimination. I am in charge of developing VR tests using Unity and Oculus VR. The work result includes improvements upon the existing tests and new tests that utilize VR functionality in various scenes.
Penn Engineering
Research Assistant
May 2022 - December 2023
Developed Unity platform and animation infrastructure for Professor Lingjie Liu’s research projects
Researching how to integrate NeRF into Unity and implement it in a more diverse set of scenarios
ByteDance
Platform Engineer
October 2021 - April 2022
I collaborated with ByteDance game studios to develop efficiency tools including Overdraw and Mipmap collector that could potentially save hardware usage by 20% and increase frame per second by more than 15fps. Also, I analyzed performance data from studios and find the best optimization in terms of performance. My main work results are the overdraw collector and mipmap collector, which could collect the overdraw/mipmap statistics over a duration of time.
Netease
Game Developer
January 2021 - October 2021
I developed in-game systems and characters for published games Forever Seven Days. During this job, I gained experience in large project development and project development tools including Unity. The main work result included two published game characters and first place in the company's yearly game jam.
Education
University of Rochester
Ph.D, Computer Science
August 2024 - Present
AR/VR
Generative AI
University of Pennsylvania
M.S. Computer Graphics and Game Technology
September 2022 - May 2024
GPU Programming
Computer Animation and 3D Modelling
Game Development and Design
Physically Based Rendering
AR/VR Development
Syracuse University
B.S. in Computer Science
September 2016 - May 2020
Computer Graphics
Data Structure and Algorithms
C++ Programming
Autonomous System
Software Engineering Design
Projects
MirrorWarp
An Unreal Project that gets inspiration from Portal and Cocoon. I am the main designer and developer for this project.
AR Pinball
An AR Game that players compete on pinning and painting the blocks.
LightsOff - A Unity Indie Game
A Course Project and a parody of Stanley Parable.
Collage MR - A RealityHack Project
A Project we done through 48 hours in MIT Reality Hack, using Meta Quest Presence Platform and Unity. Details in the link
SMPL2FBX
A Unity Plugin that use AutoDesk FBX SDK to transcribe complex SMPL data to FBX animation files with selected model.
TerrainIt
TerrainIt can use simple Orometry data to generate complex Terrain Mesh in Maya as an authoring tool.
Project ARC
Project ARC is proposed to implement an application for adding procedural elements to the real-world view.
My main work is to use Compute Shader in Unity to procedurally generate L-Systems to apply them in AR.
CUDA PathTracer
In this project I implemented a path tracer in CUDA, with features in mesh loading, texture mapping, antialiasing, and more.
Boid Simulation
In this project I implemented a boid flocking simulation, with performance analysis in terms of different methods of boids simulation and block size.
Penn Upgrade
As a member of Penn Upgrade, I have developed a mini-game, and a boss battle mini project in progress.
There will be more projects including game jam projects and monthly works in this and next semester.
Star Mirror
This is a 8 people group project we did for the Netease MINI competition. I am in charge of player design, environmental mechanism, and all the special mechanics in the game.
This project won the first place over 12 teams in the end.
Lost Signal
This is a very early global game jam project I did in my Sophomore year. Inspired by Fallout: New Vegas, I tried to create a branched narrative
that every choice affects the consequences and the ending. In 48 hours I created the game that can be played for 30 minutes and has 6 endings.
A very early and rusty project that started my game design journey.