Chengan He

I’m a Research Scientist at Meta, working on human-centric computer vision and graphics problems. Before joining Meta, I completed my Ph.D. in the Computer Graphics Group at Yale University, advised by Prof. Holly Rushmeier. My doctoral research focused on high-quality human digitization, leveraging neural representations to model human motion, hair, and head. More broadly, my prior work spans 3D reconstruction, reflectance capture, and material appearance modeling.

During my Ph.D., I interned at Adobe Research twice (Summer 2021, Summer 2022), working with Dr. Yi Zhou on projects related to neural motion fields and parametric 3D hair modeling. In Summer 2024, I interned at Meta Codec Avatars Lab with Dr. Giljoo Nam, contributing to research on universal 3D hair modeling.

Prior to Yale, I obtained my bachelor’s degree from Zhejiang University, under the supervision of Prof. Hongzhi Wu.