Scholar
Chen Cao
Google Scholar ID: fijNHGAAAAAJ
Facebook Reality Labs
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,512
H-index
20
i10-index
27
Publications
20
Co-authors
19
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2024 SIGGRAPH Test-of-Time Award; 2016 Excellent Graduate Student of Zhejiang Province; 2015 Chu Kochen Scholarship (the highest scholarship of ZJU, awarded to 12 out of 5000+ graduate students); 2010 Chiang Chen Scholarship; 2013 Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship (awarded to 10 in Asia); 2013 National Ph.D. Scholarships of P.R.China. Published multiple papers, such as 'Universal Facial Encoding of Codec Avatars from VR Headsets' (SIGGRAPH 2024) and 'URHand: Universal Relightable Hands' (CVPR 2024 Oral).
Research Experience
- Currently a Research Scientist at Meta Codec Avatar Team. Former Senior Research Scientist at Snap. Worked as a Research Scientist at Facebook and Snapchat.
Education
- Feb 2012 - Jun 2016: Ph.D. candidate, College of Computer Science & Technology, Zhejiang University, supervised by Prof. Kun Zhou; Sep 2010 - Feb 2012: M.Sc. candidate (transferred to PhD), College of Computer Science & Technology, Zhejiang University; Sep 2006 - Jun 2010: B.Eng., Chu Kochen Honors Program, College of Computer Science & Technology, Zhejiang University.
Background
- Research interest: Computer graphics, especially for facial animation. Focus areas include photorealistic 3D face expression databases, real-time facial animation with a single camera, and facial image/video editing.
Miscellany
- Looking for PhD students as interns in his team. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact him.
