Kai-En Lin

Kai-En Lin is an AR/VR engineer at Apple's Vision Products Group (VPG), with a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on novel view synthesis from dynamic scenes and sparse inputs, supported by a Qualcomm FMA fellowship during his graduate studies.

• PhD: CSE Department, UC San Diego (advised by Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi)
• Undergraduate: EE Department, National Taiwan University (advised by Prof. Homer H. Chen)

His work intersects computer graphics, neural rendering, and 3D reconstruction, with key contributions in Deep 3D Mask Volumes, NeRF-based view synthesis, and light-transport modeling for portraits. Collaborations include researchers from Google, Meta, and Adobe.

His recent publications apply NeRF, diffusion models, and vision transformers to problems such as dynamic scene synthesis and single-image 3D reconstruction. Notable co-authors include Ravi Ramamoorthi, Tsung-Yi Lin, and Lei Xiao.

Scientific Awards:

• Qualcomm FMA fellowship

He has contributed to influential papers in venues like ICML, ECCV, ICCV, and IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI). These works emphasize neural view synthesis, dynamic scene modeling, and editable 3D content generation.