Cyrus Vachha
Graduate Student Researcher
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolCyrus Vachha is a CS PhD student and researcher at Princeton specializing in VR/AR, HCI, graphics, and NeRFs, with 11 years of hands-on experience building immersive systems. He combines academic research (UC Berkeley, Microsoft Research) with practical engineering—contributing VR/360 rendering, camera models, and Blender integration to the popular Nerfstudio project. A Unity Certified VR/AR Developer and former SWE intern at Microsoft, he has shipped display validation tools for Surface devices and integrated volumetric 3D captures into production VR experiences. Cyrus also brings entrepreneurial and teaching experience from founding a game studio and running coding camps, reflecting a long-running commitment to making 3D technology accessible and usable. An interesting detail: his Nerfstudio contributions span both front-end UX tweaks and low-level camera math for omnidirectional stereo, bridging research prototypes and production tooling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at Mission San Jose High SchoolCogswell Polytechnical CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Princeton UniversityHopkins Jr. HighFirst Tech Challenge
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Github Skills (11)
3d-graphics10
python10
render10
addon10
rendering10
computer-vision9
user-interface8
serf8
3d-reconstruction8
lua6
coronasdk6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nerfstudio-project/nerfstudio
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
A collaboration friendly studio for NeRFs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 2 commits, 18 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Cyrus primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the Blender add-on for camera path import/export, including fixes for FOV and alignment calculations. They also added support for rendering omni-directional stereo (VR 360) and VR180 videos, implementing necessary camera models, and post-processing steps. Furthermore, the user updated the viewer with camera type selection and made minor adjustments to improve usability, such as changing the FPS slider to a text entry. The contributions cover both front-end and back-end elements, including new code and documentation.
pytorchphotogrammetrydeep-learningcomputer-vision3d-reconstruction
cvachha/cvachha.github.io
Dec 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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