About Myself
I am a Senior Researcher at Tencent IEG Global, Visual AI team in Singapore, where I leverage 3D and multi-modal AI to automate and elevate game production workflows. I am also completing my PhD in Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS) (thesis approved, oral defense pending), under the supervision of Assoc Prof Lee Gim Hee. My research focuses on 3D reconstruction, 3D generation, and high-efficiency rendering. I received my B.Eng in Computer Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Faculty of Engineering at NUS in 2022, under the Science and Technology Scholarship.
I am a passionate researcher and innovator dedicated to bridging the gap between cutting-edge 3D vision research and real-world applications. During my Ph.D., I focused on 3D reconstruction and led an entrepreneurial initiative with my labmates to commercialize our technology for immersive navigation and 3D design through Mirror World. I firmly believe that mastering 3D representations is a vital stepping stone toward Artificial General Intelligence, and I am driven to advance how intelligent algorithms capture, understand, and generate our physical and virtual worlds.
Work Experience
Tencent IEG Global, Visual AI team — Senior Researcher
Mar 2026 – Present, Singapore
- Created a 3D algorithm pipeline to extract camera trajectories, scene point clouds, and character layouts from stylized generated video, accelerating UE level sequence production workflows from 1 day to 2 hours
- Developing a multi-modal AI Director agent framework that parses narrative screenplays to autonomously generate coherent UE level sequences, including character dynamics and continuous camera motion
Mirror World — Founder & CEO
Mar 2024 – Nov 2025
- Developed a visual navigation software and event design platform based on large-scale 3D reconstruction
- Awarded by the Venture Initiation Program from NUS School of Computing and the National Graduate Research Innovation Program from National Research Foundation
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Publications
1000FPS+ Novel View Synthesis from End-to-End Opaque Triangle Optimization
Zhiwen Yan, Weng Fei Low, Tianxin Huang, Gim Hee Lee
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2026
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Multi-Scale 3D Gaussian Splatting for Anti-Aliased Rendering
Zhiwen Yan, Weng Fei Low, Yu Chen, Gim Hee Lee
The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024
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NeRF-DS: Neural Radiance Fields for Dynamic Specular Objects
Zhiwen Yan, Chen Li, Gim Hee Lee
The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023
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OD-NeRF: Efficient Training of On-the-Fly Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields
Zhiwen Yan, Chen Li, Gim Hee Lee
International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV) 2025
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Animate124: Animating One Image to 4D Dynamic Scene
Yuyang Zhao, Zhiwen Yan, Enze Xie, Lanqing Hong, Zhenguo Li, Gim Hee Lee
arXiv preprint
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GNeSF: Generalizable Neural Semantic Fields
Hanlin Chen, Chen Li, Mengqi Guo, Zhiwen Yan, Gim Hee Lee
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023
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