Yiran Zhang

I am currently a first-year Ph.D. in Computer Science at Purdue University under the supervision of Dr. Aniket Bera. Before this, I was graduated at Northwestern University with a CS Master Degree and was fortunate to work with Dr. Emma Alexander, Dr. Diego Klabjan, and Dr. Ian Horswill. I also received my B.S. in Computer Science and B.A. in Visual Fine Art double degrees from Union College.

My research interest is in the field of computer graphics and VR/AR graphics and locomotion problems. I enjoy exploring various kinds of learning based methods to generate graphics models in VR. I also have a strong belief in the potential of VR/AR in our future daily use and thus I also work on projects that can help making this amazing technique come into our life soon.

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Ongoing Research

ENI-driven Virtual Room Layout Generation

Project Outline: This VR locomotion project generates visually appealing virtual scenes that allow users to naturally walk without colliding with physical objects.

Face Image to Human Head Generation

Project Outline: Our model generates a 360 degree 3D high-fidelity head model of a given front face image. - Constructed a model for conditional 3D face generation with a built-in default head mesh.

AR glasses Multimodal AI Data Collection

Project Outline: Collecting and processing dataset for multimodal AI training with Meta Aria.

Teaching and Mentoring

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