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Advanced Graphics Summit: Open-World Water Rendering and Real-Time Simulation
Speakers: Zhenyu Mao (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS), Kui Wu (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Location: Room 301, South Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Topic: Programming
Format: Lecture
Online Game Technology Summit: XPR Model: Building a Truly Scalable Virtual World
Speaker: Richard Li (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Location: Room 3005, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Topic: Programming
Format: Lecture
Sponsor Speaker: FAN ZHANG (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Location: Room 3022, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Production & Team Leadership, Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speakers: Jiancong Huang (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS), Jiaxuan Zhang (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Location: Room 3022, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Production & Team Leadership, Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speakers: Gerry SUN (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS), Zhichao Shu (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Location: Room 3022, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speakers: Xin Wang (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS), Ryan Zhang (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Location: Room 3022, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Machine Learning Summit: 'Wobbledoll': ML-Powered Self-Balancing Synthesis Ragdoll
Speaker: Nan Ma (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Location: Room 2010, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Summits Pass
Topic: Programming
Format: Lecture
Sponsor Speakers: Chao Weng (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS), Shili Xu (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Location: Room 3022, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Audio, Programming
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Sponsor Speakers: Joshua Yu (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS), Leon Wei (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Location: Room 3022, West Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Programming, Visual Arts
Format: Sponsor Developer Summit
Speaker: Ben Fray (LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS)
Location: GDC Industry Stage, Expo Floor, South Hall
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass, Summits Pass, Expo Pass, Audio Pass, Independent Games Summit Pass
Topic: Production & Team Leadership
Format: Sponsored Session
Title: Senior Game AI Researcher, LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Zhichao Shu is a senior game AI researcher at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS. He joined LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS in 2018, focusing on learning-based AI production in games. Zhichao received his bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University and his doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Title: Senior Graphics Engineer, LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Jiaxuan Zhang is a senior graphics engineer at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS. He has over three years of experience in graphics-related R&D and specializes in physically-based real-time rendering, global illumination, precomputed lighting, rendering pipeline, and GPU performance optimization. Jiaxuan received his M.S. degree in computer science from Zhejiang University.
Title: International Talent Acquisition Lead
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Ben is the International Talent Acquisition Lead at Lightspeed Studios. For the past five years, he has dedicated himself to supporting Lightspeed Studios' international gaming business, along helping to set up and staff multiple 0-1 studios/teams, such as Lightspeed LA and Uncapped Games. In addition, he has established and maintained a HR and recruiting team to oversee staffing for ten global locations. Ben is a passionate gamer from an early age, with thousand of hours /played.
Title: Senior Graphics Engineer, LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Huiwen Jiang is a senior graphics engineer at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS tech center. She specializes in physically-based rendering, global illumination, advanced rendering techniques, and mobile device rendering optimization. Huiwen received her master degree in computer graphics from Zhejiang University and her bachelor degree in computer science from Harbin Institute of Technology.
Title: Principal Server R&D Engineer
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Richard (Jia) Li is a principal engineer at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS, specializing in building next-gen large-scale online open-world game experiences. He is leading a team at the tech center to help designers building game worlds out of their imaginations.
During his 18 years in the game industry, Richard held several other titles. He worked as the principal software architect for Crytek's award-winning piece Hunt: Showdown, and before that he was a senior engine programmer at Epic Games.
Title: Senior Game Engine Developer
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Nan Ma is a Senior Game Engine Developer at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS. Focusing on improving in-game animation quality and motion fidelity, Nan leverages machine learning and physics simulation to take the character interactive animation to a brand-new level.
As the tech lead of a Best in Play award winning game at GDC 2018, Nan Ma has 16 years of experience in game physics R&D, game engine development, and AAA game content production. He specializes in the commercialization of cutting-edge technologies from concept states to final productions.
Nan spent his early career years as a physics programmer at Rockstar Games, where he contributed to a few of its critically acclaimed titles, including Max Payne 3, Grand Theft Auto V, Red Dead Redemption 2.
Title: Principal Software Engineer
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Zhenyu Mao is a principal Software Engineer at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS. He has over two decades of experience in game development focusing on 3D tech, engine architecture and optimization.
Zhenyu previously worked on various AAA titles, including Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Rainbow Six Seige, Far Cry 5, Far Cry 6, and more.
As former water tech lead in Far Cry 5/6, Zhenyu built up the river, lake, and ocean rendering system from scratch, and defined the automated data creation pipeline for water assets.
Title: Senior Game AI Researcher, LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Gerry Sun is a senior game AI researcher at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS. He takes the lead in game AI production and game-related image AI production. Gerry has over a decade of experience in gaming. He graduated from Nanjing University in 2011.
Title: Senior Researcher
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Xin Wang is a senior researcher at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS. His research focuses on the cross field of computer vision and computer graphics, including image-based modeling, video-driven expression and motion, audio-driven lip motion, AI-generated content (AIGC), and more. Xin Wang received his Ph.D. from the University of Sorbonne, France.
Title: Engine Team Lead, LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Leon Wei is the engine team lead at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS. As a game engine expert engineer, Leon brought over a decade of experience in game software development and led the game engine team for UNDAWN. Leon focused on the techniques of mobile game optimizations and mobile GI. He implemented a Vulkan API-based parallel render framework for UNDAWN to replace frequent rendering API jank, and achieved 30% decrease in CPU render time. He also designed the Global Illumination (GI) system in UNDAWN using a probe-based method, enabling real-time fast rendering of the lighting environment in the open world. Leon previously contributed to the development of DarkSiders Mobile and Legend of Elves after finishing his master's degree in the State Key Library of CAD & CG at Zhejiang University. His research interests include computer graphics, image processing, game development, somatosensory-based interaction, computer vision, and machine learning.
Title: Principal Researcher and Team Lead, LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Chao Weng is a manager and principal researcher of LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS. He manages two groups of researchers and engineers focusing on high performance computing and speech tech, including speech codec, recognition, synthesis, and processing.
Prior to joining LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS, Chao spent three years in Apple’s Siri Speech team as a key engineer responsible for Siri speech recognition and successfully delivered the very first far-field and convolutional acoustic models on iPhone and HomePod. He also conducted research at Microsoft Research Redmond and AT&T Labs Research during his graduate study at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Chao holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has authored/co-authored more than 50 publications/patents.
Title: Senior Research Scientist
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Kui Wu is a senior research scientist at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS. He is an experienced computer graphics researcher focused on real-time rendering, mesh processing, computational fabrication, and physical-based simulation.
Kui was a postdoctoral associate at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) after receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 2019. With 20+ papers published in top-tier journals and conferences, including Nature Electronics, ACM TOG, SIGGRAPH, IEEE TVCG, CGF, CHI, I3D, ICRA, RA-L, and more, his research extends to various fields in computer graphics.
Title: Game Technical Operation Expert and Team Lead
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Shili Xu is a manager and game technical operation expert at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS’ technical operation department. He has over 10 years of experience in the gaming industry. He manages the MTGPA team which focusing on experience optimization and new technology research of mobile games.
Shili previously worked on FIFA Online 3, QQ Speed, PEACEKEEPER ELITE（Game for Peace ), UNDAWN , and more.
Title: Lead Technical Artist, LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Joshua Yu is a lead technical artist at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS. He has more than five years of experience in environment tech art with the focus on pipeline tools, shading, and game performance optimization. As the lead technical artist of the UNDAWN, Joshua and his team focused on art solutions including procedural content generation (PCG), photogrammetry, lighting, and more.
Title: Engine Team Lead of PUBG MOBILE, LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Fan Zhang is an engine team lead of PUBG MOBILE at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS. With nine years of experience in mobile game development, he has worked on a broad selection of games, primarily concentrating on mobile game performance optimization and real-time rendering.
Title: Senior Researcher
Company: LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS
Ryan Zhang is a computer vision researcher at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS. He has over 8 years of experience in computer vision research. Ryan received his Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. During his Ph.D. studies, he co-founded the 3D reconstruction cloud platform for general users – Altizure.