Yazhen Yuan/袁亚振

Yazhen Yuan / 袁亚振

I am a Principal Game Engine Developer (T12) working at Tencent in Hangzhou, where i focus on building an in-house engine from scratch.

I received my Ph.D. from CAD&CG National Key Lab@Zhejiang University, under the supervision by Prof. Rui Wang and Prof. Hujun Bao.

My work and research experiences primarily focus on rendering and GPU technologies. Throughout my programming career, I have worked with various platforms and languages including PC, mobile, web, WeChat, VR/AR glasses, CG, GLSL, HLSL, and CUDA, among others. After graduation, I chose to work in the industry to gain exposure to different communities. However, I continue to stay updated on recent advances in academia and collaborate on exciting research projects in my spare time.

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Research

I'm interested in Realtime rendering, Compute graphics, Artificial Intelligence.

	Adaptive Recurrent Frame Prediction with Learnable Motion Vectors Zhizhen Wu, Chenyu Zuo, Yuchi Huo, Yazhen Yuan, Yifan Peng, Guiyang Pu, Rui Wang, Hujun Bao Siggrapha Asia, 2023 (Conferences Track) Using learned motion vector and recurrent feature to extrapolate multiple frames for realtime rendering.
	Multirate Shading with Piecewise Interpolatory Approximation Yiwei Hu, Yazhen Yuan, Rui Wang, Zhuo Yang, Hujun Bao Computer Graphics Forum, Proc. of Pacific Graphics (PG 2022). We present a multirate shading approach via dynamic sparse sampling with piecewise linear reconstruction.
	ShaderTransformer: Predicting Shader Quality via One-shot Embedding for Fast Simplification Yuchi Huo, Shi Li, Yazhen Yuan, Xu Chen, Rui Wang, Wenting Zheng, H Lin, Hujun Bao Siggrapha, 2022 (Conferences Track) We use transformer to predict visual impact of shader’s variables and expressions for fast shader code simplification.
	Tile pair-based adaptive multi-rate stereo shading Yazhen Yuan, Rui Wang, Hujun Bao IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , 2018 (IEEE VR 2019) We found an useful tile pair structure and design a new gpu pipeline for efficient vr rendering.
	Runtime shader simplification via instant search in reduced optimization space Yazhen Yuan, Rui Wang, Tianlei Hu, Hujun Bao Computer Graphics Forum , 2018 Proc. of Euro Graphics Symposium of Rendering (EGSR 2018) We construct a graph to analysis relations between shader code variants, and search for fastest simplified shader during runtime.
	Simplified and tessellated mesh for realtime high quality rendering Yazhen Yuan, Rui Wang, Jing Huang, Jiaya Jia, Hujun Bao Computers & Graphics , 2015 Proc. of CAD&Graphics 2015 For tessellation shader, we design a new mesh simplification and reconstruction method to render mesh with complexity geometry.
	Automatic shader simplification using surface signal approximation Rui Wang, Xianjin Yang, Yazhen Yuan, Wei Chen, Kavita Bala, Hujun Bao ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, 2014 We can move shader code to different shader stages to find the optimal shader code variants.
	GPU-based out-of-core many-lights rendering Rui Wang, Yuchi Huo, Yazhen Yuan, Kun Zhou, Wei Hua,Hujun Bao ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA, 2013 We can render billions of lights on a single GPU.