Publication

 

Soft Shadow Mip-Maps

Yang Shen, M.S. Thesis, University of Utah, 2016

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DB: A Developed 3D Positioning Algorithm in WSN Based on DV-Hop and Bounding Cube

Yang Shen, Bo Zhang, Kun Wang, Hui Cao. Computer and Management (CAMAN) International Conference, Wuhan, 2011

Work Experience

 

Founder

Dopamine Animatic, Originate 20% Time

Nov 2017 to Present

Description: R&D on identifying aesthetic attributes in 3D animations; implementing real-time algorithms to simulate and configure aesthetic attribute; work with business partner to set up initial content of Dopamine Animatic, such as official website and logo. One example of simulating and configuring aesthetic attributes in animations is implementing Rayleigh and Mie Scatterings, Improved Perlin Noise in GLSL to simulate and configure sky color and sky pattern to efficiently explore emotions.

Cambridge, MA

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Software Engineer

Originate

Jun 2015 to Present

Mentor: Thomas Wang

Description: feature development of iOS products in international software engineering teams; architecture design and development of internal iOS kits; R&D on machine learning techniques for mobile games

Cambridge, MA (Sep 2015 to present. Was in San Francisco, CA between Jun 2015 and Sep 2015)

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3D Developer / Artist Intern

3D Department, Saatchi & Saatchi LA

Jul 2014 to Aug 2014

Mentor: Michael Wilken

Description: R&D on real-time rendering algorithms for car shading in WebGL with limited memory. Implemented BRDF models, bump mapping, and environment mapping to simulate individual car exhibition for Toyota cars in browsers, which allows user to interactively explore exterior of cars from different view angles; work with artist to improve visual qualities of car shading

Los Angeles, CA

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3D R&D Intern

SIGVC, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Mar 2013 to Jul 2013

Mentor: Dr. Huai-Yu Wu

Description: R&D on real-time soft shadows algorithms, such as implementing PCF in GLSL, Spherical Harmonic Exponentiation in C++, as part of Computer Vision research on inserting and removing shadows in real pictures. R&D on using refilming algorithms to insert pictures to real pictures, such as generating depth recovering data of a picture and employing it in custom application to insert another picture to the picture.

Beijing, China

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Research Assistant

School of Computing, University of Utah

Sep 2012 – Dec 2012

Supervisor: Dr. Cem Yuksel

Description: power spectrum estimation of poisson disk distribution. Implemented 2D Fast Fourier Transform in C++ to generate Power Spectrum for Poisson Disk Sample sets

Salt Lake City, UT

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iOS Developer

Multimedia Lab, Software Engineering Department, Beijing Jiaotong University

Jul 2011 to Dec 2011

Mentor: Dr. Yu Wu

Description: feature development of outsourced iOS products, such as Beijing Review on iPad, v1

Beijing, China

Academic Experience

 

Masters Thesis: Soft Shadow Mip-Maps

School of Computing, University of Utah

Apr 2014 - May 2015

Supervisor: Dr. Cem Yuksel

Committee: Dr. Charles Hansen, Dr. Erik Brunvand

Description: simulating realistic soft shadows in real-time with shadow mip-maps

Salt Lake City, UT

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National Innovation Experiment Program for University Students

School of Software Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University

Aug 2010 – Mar 2012​

Supervisor: Xudong Chen

​Project 1: A 3D Positioning and Display System Based on WSN

Project 2: A WSN Based Monitoring and Display System for Forest Fire

Description: team executive of project 1 and team lead of project 2. Responsible for devising algorithms on sensor positioning and coverage, and team management.

Beijing, China

Education

 

University of Utah

Master's Degree, Computing: Graphics and Visualization. GPA: 3.771

Aug 2013 to May 2015

Salt Lake City, UT

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Beijing Jiaotong University

Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering and Computer Games. Major GPA: 90.15/100

Sep 2009 to Jun 2013

Beijing, China

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University of Utah

Non-Degree Overseas Study Program. Focused on Physically-Based Rendering. Major GPA: 3.8

Sep 2012 to Dec 2012

Salt Lake City, UT

Skills

Programming

Swift (8/10)

Objective-C (8/10)

C/C++ (7/10)

GLSL (7/10)

CUDA (5/10)

Matlab (5/10)

Javascript (1/10)

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IDE

Visual Studio

XCode

Atom

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Languages

Mandarin (Native)

English (Full Professional Proficiency)

Awards & Honors

 

Golden Key Honor Society

University of Utah

2014

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Winner of 2012 Teapot Rendering Competition

School of Computing, University of Utah

2014

 

Honorable Mention in MCM/ICM

2012

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First Prize in the “Challenge Cup” Academic Paper Competition

Beijing Jiaotong University

2011