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March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Speakers

Zhongyuan LiuSenior AI Researcher and Game DeveloperTencent Games

Lock (Zhongyuan) Liu is a Senior AI Researcher and Game Developer at LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS, and formerly served as the algorithm and product lead for scene placement in Tencent Games' frontier technology team. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China and has a background in interior architecture, landscape design, and digital installation art. His research and practice focus on multi‑agent and multimodal AI for 3D scene design and procedural content generation, with work published at venues such as SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, AAAI, and IEEE TVCG.

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