Wei Dong
Senior Research Scientist at Apple
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolWei Dong is a Senior Research Scientist at Apple with 12 years of experience in computer graphics, robotics, and 3D vision, currently based in Sunnyvale. He transitioned from a PhD in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon through research internships at NVIDIA, Intel Labs, ETH Zurich and Samsung, and now contributes to Apple’s Spatial Scenes and photorealism efforts. Wei’s work blends core research with production engineering—he’s a core developer on Spatial Scenes and has contributed visualization and textured-mesh support to the widely used Open3D library. Motivated by recreating lived experiences in cyberspace, he focuses on photorealistic rendering and practical systems for capturing and reliving moments. Though firmly committed to his team at Apple, he remains an active open-source contributor and researcher driving realism in 3D data processing.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Peking UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
computer-graphics10
opengl9
rendering9
render9
3d9
cpp9
machine-learning4
python3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
isl-org/Open3D
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Computer Graphics Engineer
Back-end Developer & Computer Graphics EngineerContributions:169 reviews, 109 commits, 145 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Wei's commits focus on enhancing the visualization capabilities of the Open3D library, particularly for 3D data processing. The user implemented features for visualizing RGBD images, including enabling side-by-side display and depth visualization, and modifying shader code. The user also worked on supporting textured triangle meshes, involving the implementation of texture mesh loaders, texture phong rendering, and adjustments to the .obj file format handling. Furthermore, the user contributed to Azure Kinect support.
python3d-perceptionodometrytensorflowpointcloud
theNded/Open3D
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
[IROS 2019] GPU Accelerated Robust Scene Reconstruction
Contributions:1343 commits, 6 PRs, 629 pushes in 4 years 4 months
reconstructionscene-reconstructiongpuacceleratedscene
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.