Yicheng (Albert) Zhan

yicheng_zhan2001@outlook.com

Yicheng Zhan (弈诚战) is a Ph.D. candidate at University College London, affiliated with the Computational Light Laboratory, under the supervision of Dr. Kaan Akşit. His research primarily focuses on Computer-Generated Holography, Computational Display, and Physics-aware Rendering. His academic interests lie at the intersection of computer graphics and emerging display technologies.

Prior to his doctoral studies, Yicheng completed his M.Sc. in the Department of Computer Graphics and Vision Imaging at University College London and obtained his B.Sc. from King’s College London.

Reviewer for Conferences and Journals: SIGGRAPH, Optica, ISMAR, TVCG, Optics Express

news

Jun 19, 2026	Our paper Complex-Valued 2D Gaussian Representation for Computer-Generated Holography is accepted at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026!
Mar 29, 2026	Our paper Compressing Double-Phase Holograms using 2D Gaussians is accepted at Eurographics 2026 Poster Track!
Mar 17, 2026	Our paper Complex-Valued Holographic Radiance Fields is accepted at ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) and will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2026!
Mar 09, 2026	I started my position as a Research Intern at Meta, Seattle (Redmond), USA!

selected publications

ECCV

Complex-Valued 2D Gaussian Representation for Computer-Generated Holography

Yicheng Zhan^*, Xiangjun Gao^*, Long Quan, and Kaan Akşit * Equal Contribution

In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Sep 2026

DOI arXiv Bib PDF Code Website

@inproceedings{zhan2026complexvalued2d,
  author = {Zhan, Yicheng and Gao, Xiangjun and Quan, Long and Ak\c{s}it, Kaan},
  title = {Complex-Valued 2D Gaussian Representation for Computer-Generated Holography},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi = {},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15022},
}

ACM TOG

Complex-Valued Holographic Radiance Fields

Yicheng Zhan, Dong-Ha Shin, Seung-Hwan Baek, and Kaan Akşit

ACM Transactions on Graphics (Presented in SIGGRAPH 2026), Los Angeles, California, USA, Apr 2026

DOI arXiv Bib PDF Code Website

@article{zhan2025complexvalued,
  author = {Zhan, Yicheng and Shin, Dong-Ha and Baek, Seung-Hwan and Ak\c{s}it, Kaan},
  title = {Complex-Valued Holographic Radiance Fields},
  year = {2026},
  issue_date = {June 2026},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  volume = {45},
  number = {3},
  issn = {0730-0301},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3804450},
  doi = {10.1145/3804450},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (Presented in SIGGRAPH 2026)},
  month = apr,
  articleno = {31},
  numpages = {16},
  keywords = {Novel view synthesis, radiance fields, 3D gaussians, computer-generated holography},
  location = {Los Angeles, California, USA},
}