I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate ( 2017 - Now ) in Computer Science department at UC Irvine, where I am working with Prof. Shuang Zhao. Before that, I obtained my B.E. in Electrical Engineering from BJUT (2011-2015) and my M.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University (2015-2017). I am the recipient of the 2021 Facebook Fellowship.
My research focuses on physics-based rendering and its inverse problems centered around the inference of geometric and material properties from physical measurements (i.e. photographs, depth data). To develop efficient solutions to the inverse rendering problems, I have been working actively on the topic of physics-based differentiable rendering.
I have graduated from UCI as of July 2022. Please check my new WEBSITE for the latest updates.
Featured Research
Antithetic Sampling for Monte Carlo Differentiable Rendering
Cheng Zhang, Zhao Dong, Michael Doggett, Shuang Zhao
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2021), 40(4), August 2021
Path-Space Differentiable Rendering of Participating Media
Cheng Zhang*, Zihan Yu*, Shuang Zhao (*equal contribution)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2021), 40(4), August 2021
Path-Space Differentiable Rendering
Cheng Zhang, Bailey Miller, Kai Yan, Ioannis Gkioulekas, Shuang Zhao
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2020), 39(4), July 2020
Multi-Scale Appearance Modeling of Granular Materials with Continuously Varying Grain Properties
Cheng Zhang, Shuang Zhao
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR), 2020
A Differential Theory of Radiative Transfer
Cheng Zhang, Lifan Wu, Changxi Zheng, Ioannis Gkioulekas, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Shuang Zhao
ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Asia 2019), 38(6)
FontCode: Embedding Information in Text Documents using Glyph Perturbation
Chang Xiao, Cheng Zhang, Changxi Zheng
ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH 2018), 37(2)
Research/Work Experience
June 2021 - November 2021
NVIDIA Corporation, Remote
Research Intern (advised by Edward Liu), Applied Deep Learning Research Group
June 2019 - Sept 2019
Facebook Reality Lab, Redmond, WA
Research Intern (advised by Prof. Michael Doggett), Graphics Group
June 2018 - Sept 2018
Robert Bosch LLC, Sunnyvale, CA
Motion Capture and Recognition Intern (advised by Mr. Lincan Zou), Human Machine Interaction Group
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Robert Bosch LLC, Palo Alto, CA
Graphics Research Intern (advised by Mr. Lincan Zou), Human Machine Interaction Group
June 2016 - April 2017
Columbia University, New York
Research Assistant (advised by Prof. Changxi Zheng), Dept. of Computer Science
Contact Info
Email: zhangchengee (at) gmail.com