Xiaohang Zhan is currently a senior research scientist in AI Lab, Tencent from 2023.
Before that, He received his B.Eng. degree from Tsinghua University in 2016, and Ph.D. degree from the Multimedia Laboratory (MMLab) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2020 (1 year shortened), supervised by Chen Change Loy and Xiaoou Tang.
Afterwards, he joined Huawei via Huawei Genius Youth Program (2020).
His research interests include unsupervised learning from 2016, and AI+CG from 2020.
He is the reviewer of most top conferences and journals in AI&CV.
He was awarded Top 100 Chinese New Stars in Artificial Intelligence by Baidu Scholar in 2021.
Besides, he was the major contributor of the repo MMSelfsup in OpenMMLab project.
Experience
AI Lab, Tencent
March 2023 - Now. Title: Group leader, Senior research scientist. Experience: Research in computer graphics, character animation, 3D content generation and technology productization in Game/XR industry.
Recruiting interns! Feel free to drop me an email.
2012 Labs, Huawei
August 2020 - March 2023. Title: Project leader, Huawei Genius Youth, Huawei assistant scientist. Experience: Research and productization of digital human technologies, including parametric modeling, auto rigging, body & face motion capture & synthesis.
Education
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (MMLab)
August 2017 - August 2020 (1 year shortened). Ph.D. in Information Engineering.
August 2016 - August 2017. Research assistant.
Tsinghua University
August 2012 - July 2016. Bachelor.
With "Outstanding Undergraduates Award" (top 1%).
Projects
2022
HMS Auto-Rigging Solution for Biped Characters @Huawei
My duty: project leader, first author.
Achievements: robust results for variance in shape, pose and mesh topology, industry-leading accuracy and efficiency, the first auto-rigging service on mobile terminals.
Productization: HMS Core.
Publicity: Huawei Developer Conference 2022 (start from 1:01:00),
Bilibili.
2021
MMSelfSup: An open source self-supervised representation learning toolbox @OpenMMLab