Alex Fan
Research Engineer at Epic Games
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Fan is a research engineer and Ph.D. candidate at ETH Zurich focused on computer vision and machine learning, with deep expertise in hand pose estimation and modeling human-object and human-scene interactions. He splits his time between academia and industry—working as a guest scientist at MPI-IS and a Research Engineer at Epic Games after an internship at Meta Reality Labs—bridging fundamental research and applied mixed-reality systems. Trained at UBC (BSc, MSc) and mentored by leaders like Michael J. Black and Otmar Hilliges, he brings eight years of experience applying egocentric vision to interactive and wearable contexts. His profile reflects a pattern of moving ideas toward product-relevant settings, suggesting a knack for translating complex models into usable AR/VR and perception pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science: Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science: Computer Vision and Machine Learning at ETH ZürichAssociate’s Degree Computer Science, Associate’s Degree Computer Science at Langara College
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (102)
python10
deep-learning10
computer-graphics10
graph-convolutional-networks10
animation10
rendering10
pretrain10
ai10
motion-capture10
computer-vision10
3d-reconstruction10
pytorch3d10
artificial-intelligence10
hand-tracking10
data-science10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zc-alexfan/smplx
Feb 2024 - Dec 2025
SMPL-X
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 1 year 10 months
zc-alexfan/arctic
Apr 2023 - Mar 2026
[CVPR 2023] Official repository for downloading, processing, visualizing, and training models on the ARCTIC dataset.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 2 PRs in 2 years 10 months
3d-reconstructionanimationaugmented-realitycomputer-graphicscomputer-vision
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