Summary
Hang Chu is a founder and AI research leader with 13 years of experience building generative 3D and telepresence technologies, currently steering Viggle as Co-Founder & CEO from Toronto. He pairs deep academic training as a PhD candidate at University of Toronto and an MS from Cornell with hands-on research stints at Autodesk, Facebook Reality Labs, NVIDIA and Google, focusing on 3D content generation, augmented design and facial avatar systems. His work spans applied research and product-minded engineering—shipping prototypes that bridge generative models with augmented product workflows and real-time telepresence. Notably, he has repeatedly collaborated with industry labs to move cutting-edge perception and temporal semantic understanding into practical systems. Comfortable operating between research and entrepreneurship, he brings both technical depth and a track record of translating complex vision models into commercial directions.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate Computer Science, PhD Candidate Computer Science at University of Toronto
Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University
Bachelor of Science Information Engineering, Bachelor of Science Information Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University