Ruizhi Shao
Senior Research Scientist at Rhoda AI
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuizhi Shao is a Senior Research Scientist based in Palo Alto with nine years of experience building and researching AI-driven 3D content generation and rendering systems. Currently at Rhoda AI after a Visiting Scholar stint at Stanford, Ruizhi blends deep academic training from a PhD program in Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua with hands-on engineering in industry research and internships like OPPO. His open-source work on threestudio—a unified framework for 3D content generation—shows practical expertise in diffusion models, volume rendering validation, patch-based rendering, and novel density functions like VolSDF, plus integration of HiFA techniques. Ruizhi is equally comfortable moving models into evaluation mode and debugging ray calculations as he is prototyping new modeling components, reflecting a pragmatic researcher-engineer mindset. Colleagues know him for taking on the “million things I haven't done” attitude—curious, experimental, and focused on shipping reproducible research into usable tooling.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (9)
diffusion-models10
computer-vision10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
stable-diffusion10
deep-learning10
modeling9
trainings9
volume-rendering9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
threestudio-project/threestudio
Jun 2023 - Oct 2024
A unified framework for 3D content generation.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:29 reviews, 55 PRs, 134 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ruizhi primarily contributes to the implementation and modification of components within a 3D content generation framework. Their work includes setting diffusion models to evaluation mode, validating ray calculations within volume renderers, and incorporating a patch-based rendering approach. They also added support for volsdf density functions and incorporated HiFA techniques to the model.
NankaiACM/NKOJ-Android
Jun 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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