My research is in Computer Graphics. During my Ph.D. career, I mainly aimed at rendering photo-realistic visual appearance (a.k.a. hard-core graphics) at real world complexity, building theoretical foundations mathematically and physically to reveal the principles of the visual world. I have brought original research topics to Computer Graphics, such as detailed rendering from microstructure, and real-time ray tracing with reconstruction. And I took the first steps exploiting Machine Learning approaches for physically based rendering.

As a young Computer Graphics researcher, my dream is to present people an interactive computer-generated world to live in, just like the ones in the movies The Matrix and Ready Player One. To achieve that, I come up with my own Rendering Equation, as you can see above. I am prudently looking for outstanding graduate students (details and FAQs) to work on related research topics, including but not limited to physically-based / image-based rendering, real-time ray tracing and realistic appearance modeling / acquisition. Let's work together, not to change the world, but to create one.