Chongyang Ma
About Me
I'm currently a Research Manager heading the Graphics AI team at Kuaishou Technology (Kwai Inc.). Previously I was a Sr. Research Scientist at Snap Research. Prior to that, I was a Senior Research Engineer at Activision Central Tech working on facial performance capture for game production. From 2012 to 2015, I was a postdoc researcher at UBC and USC working with Prof. Alla Sheffer and Prof. Hao Li respectively.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Institute for Advanced Study of Tsinghua University in 2012, under the supervision of Dr. Baining Guo and Dr. Li-Yi Wei. I received my B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Fundamental Science Class of Tsinghua University in 2007.
I have been focusing on democratizing visual content creation since I started my PhD in 2007. My research interests lie in the joint field of computer graphics and computer vision, including but not limited to deep generative models, image & video manipulation, human digitization, motion capture, face tracking, 3D understanding & reconstruction, physics-based simulation, data-driven animation, procedural modeling, digital geometry processing, and texture synthesis.
Work Experience
- Mar 2019 ~ PresentResearch Lead/Manager
- Nov 2016 ~ Feb 2019Sr. Research Engineer/Scientist
- July 2015 ~ Nov 2016Senior Computer Vision Research Engineer
- Oct 2013 ~ June 2015Postdoctoral Scholar in Geometric Capture Lab
- Sep 2012 ~ Sep 2013Postdoctoral Fellow in Imager Laboratory
Other Positions
- June 2014 ~ Aug 2014Research and Development Intern
- Aug 2011 ~ Feb 2012Visiting student in ALICE team
- Mar 2012 ~ July 2012Research intern in Internet Graphics Group
- Apr 2008 ~ Aug 2011
Publications
Professional Activities
- Associate Editor
- Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW) 2022--present
- Program Committee
- ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Papers 2023
- Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2023
- Computational Visual Media (CVM) 2023
- Shape Modeling International (SMI) 2018--2023
- Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2017--2022
- ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Briefs and Posters 2019
- ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D) 2015--2018
- ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) 2015, 2016
- Pacific Graphics 2015, 2016
- Paper Reviewer
- Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020, 2021
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2020, 2022
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2020--2022
- IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2019--2022
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2019, 2021
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2019
- ACM SIGGRAPH 2013--2020, 2022
- ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2013--2019, 2021, 2022
- Eurographics 2010, 2013--2018
- Pacific Graphics 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2018
- CAD/Graphics 2013
- Computer Graphics International (CGI) 2012
- Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 2016
- IEEE VR 2018
- ACM Transactions on Graphics
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
- Computer Graphics Forum (Wiley Blackwell)
- Visual Informatics (Elsevier)
- Computers & Graphics (Elsevier)
- The Visual Computer (Springer)
- Signal, Image and Video Processing (Springer)
- Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Springer)
- Journal of Electronic Imaging
- Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques
Miscellaneous
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- How to pronounce my name: ['tʃɔ:ŋ jʌŋ 'ma:]
- My academic "ancestors" are (according to the Mathematics Genealogy Project):
Chongyang Ma ← Baining Guo ← John Hopcroft ← Richard Mattson ← Bernard Widrow ← William Linvill ← Ernst Guillemin ← Arnold Sommerfeld ← Ferdinand von Lindemann ← Felix Klein ← Julius Plücker & Rudolf Lipschitz ← …
- My LaTeX tips for writing research papers [ PDF ] [ LaTeX source on github ]
- My film and game credits
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Weta Digital), 2014
- Skylanders Battlecast (Activision), 2016
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Activision), 2016
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered (Activision), 2016
- Call of Duty: WWII (Activision), 2017
- My unprofessional sports record
- (Running) 3000 metres: 12'10"
- (Basketball) most consecutive free throws made: 12
- (Basketball) most consecutive three-point field goals: 6
