Kai Yan
Senior Research Scientist at Tencent
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Yan is a Senior Research Scientist based in New Zealand with a decade of experience at the intersection of computer graphics, real-time rendering, and AI-driven world modeling. He has held research roles at top labs including NVIDIA, Meta, Adobe, and Tencent, and brings deep technical expertise in shader programming, C/C++, C#, Unity3D and UE4. His work spans differentiable rendering, generation, and agentic/complex systems—applying graphics techniques to build interactive 3D worlds and AI infrastructure. Kai pairs academic rigor (PhD work at UC Irvine) with production-facing engineering from stints at Google, Airbnb and Square, enabling rapid prototype-to-product translation. He’s actively hiring and unusually comfortable bridging non-CS collaborators into graphics and agentic research, making him a pragmatic translator between creative teams and cutting-edge technical systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at San Luis Obispo High SchoolPark Hill South High SchoolUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (3)
virtual-environment4
live-coding3
simulation3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aceyan/kai-cs-imgd-420x
Jan 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 121 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
aceyan/UE4_GPGPU_flocking
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 41 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
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