Dr. Yao Yao is a tenure-track associate professor at School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University. Previously, he was a senior researcher at Apple, and a founding member of the startup company Altizure (acquired by Apple in 2020). He received his PhD degree from CSE, HKUST in 2019, supervised by Prof. Long Quan, and his bachelor degree from ECE, NJU in 2015, advised by Prof. Xun Cao.

            His research interests lie in intersections of computer vision and computer graphics, with a focus on 3D reconstruction, differentiable rendering, and 3D content creation. His representative works include the MVSNet series of works for multi-view reconstruction, the large-scale BlendedMVS dataset for geometry related learning tasks, and the NeILF series of works for physically-based differentiable rendering. He has won the ICPR 2020 Best Student Paper Award, and is a recipient of the Excellent Young Scholars Fund from NSFC.