Presenter

Dr. Weikai Chen is a Principal Research Scientist at LightSpeed Studios, Tencent America, working on 3D vision, computer graphics, and generative modeling. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The University of Hong Kong in 2017, and was previously a postdoctoral researcher and later a research associate at USC Institute for Creative Technologies. His research focuses on 3D reconstruction, neural rendering, and 3D generative models, including diffusion-based methods, NeRF, and Gaussian-based representations.

He has authored over 55 papers in top-tier venues such as SIGGRAPH, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and NeurIPS, with over 4,000 citations. He is a co-author of Soft Rasterizer (SoftRas), a widely adopted differentiable rendering method integrated into PyTorch3D. His work has been recognized as a CVPR Best Paper Finalist. He has served as a program committee member and reviewer for all top-tier conferences and journals including SIGGRAPH, TPAMI, CVPR, ICCV, and NeurIPS.