Wan-duo Kurt
Senior Research Engineer II at Wētā FX
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Top SchoolWan-duo Kurt is a Senior Research Engineer with a decade of experience applying machine and deep learning to computer graphics and motion capture, currently contributing to assets R&D at Wētā FX and Unity while holding an adjunct research fellowship at Victoria University of Wellington. He combines a PhD focus in computer graphics and machine learning with hands-on implementation in Python and C++, driving production-ready facial motion and animation solvers used in high-end VFX pipelines. His career spans research and engineering roles that bridge academia and industry, from malware detection early work to state-of-the-art deep learning for facial performance. Known for shipping applied research into production at studios like Weta Digital, he brings both rigorous scholarly depth and practical systems experience to complex vision and animation problems. An understated strength is his ability to translate novel research into scalable tools that integrate with existing VFX workflows.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at National Central UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Graphics; Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Graphics; Machine Learning at Victoria University of Wellington
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
pytorch10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
information-theory10
deep-learning10
generative-model10
bottleneck10
inversion9
propagation9
pdf-viewer9
diffusion-models9
tensorflow9
video-player9
file-manager9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
choasma/HSIC-bottleneck
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020
The HSIC Bottleneck: Deep Learning without Back-Propagation
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year
information-theorypytorchpropagationdeep-learningback-propagation
OuAzusaKou/reprohisc_author
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:44 commits in 23 days
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