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Research Scientist, Reality Labs Research, Meta.

Previous Education:
Ph.D. in Robotics, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
M.Sc., Artificial Intelligence in Computing, Imperial College London
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering in Aeronauntics, Northwestern Polytechnical University

I have been a research scientist in Reality Labs Research, Meta since 2019. I finished my Ph.D. at Georgia Tech, jointly advised by Prof. James Rehg, and Prof. Frank Dellaert. During my Ph.D., I am also fortunate to intern at Nvidia Research in the group of Jan Kautz and at Max Planck Institute with Prof. Andreas Geiger. Before I started my Ph.D., I finished my Master thesis under the supervision of Prof. Andrew Davison at Imperial College London.

Thoughout my research, I am obessed about digitalizing the world in 3D and 4D as we human are able to see using commodity camera sensing. I am a believer that augmented reality with 3D sensing and content that can work on a small form factor devices (e.g. a pair of glasses) will become ubiquitous and fundamentally change the way we interact with world and record our memories. Quote Steve Jobs' comments on GUI when he visited Xerox PARC in 1979 :
Within 10 minutes, it was obvious to me that all computers would work like this someday. You could argue about how many number of years it would take, and you could argue about who the winners and the losers might be, but you couldn't argue about the inevitability.

I work on multidisciplinary field research and make my contributions towards it. I love 3D computer vision, with some work strongly related to techniques using computational photography, graphics, machine learning and robotics.