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Curriculum Vitae of Yicheng (Albert) Zhan
Basics
| Name | Yicheng (Albert) Zhan |
| yicheng_zhan2001@outlook.com | |
| Summary | 3rd year Ph.D. candidate at University College London, bringing the wave nature of light into algorithms and 3D representations through wave-optics rendering and learned and generative models. |
Work
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2026.03 - 2026.10 Redmond, United States
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2025.04 - 2025.09 London, United Kingdom
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2023.07 - 2025.01 London, United Kingdom
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2023.04 - 2023.12 Leeds, United Kingdom
Education
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2024.01 - Present London, United Kingdom
Ph.D. candidate (3rd year)
University College London - Computational Light Laboratory
Advanced Algorithms for Next-Generation AR and Computational Displays
- Computer Graphics
- Computational Displays
- Machine Learning
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2021.09 - 2022.09 London, United Kingdom
M.Sc. in Computer Graphics, Vision and Imaging
University College London
Urban Semantic Understanding
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2018.09 - 2021.09 London, United Kingdom
B.Sc. (Hons) in Software Engineering and Computer Science
King's College London
Slackbot Security Evaluation
Awards
- 2021
King's Undergraduate Research Fellowship
King's College London
Received for excellent academic performance
Publications
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2026 Complex-Valued 2D Gaussian Representation for Computer-Generated Holography
ECCV 2026
Yicheng Zhan, Xiangjun Gao, Long Quan, and Kaan Akşit
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2026 Enhancing Binary Encoded Crime Linkage Analysis Using Siamese Network
AAAI 2026
Yicheng Zhan, Fahim Ahmed, Amy Burrell, Matthew J. Tonkin, Sarah Galambos, Jessica Woodhams, and Dalal Alrajeh
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2026 Compressing Double-Phase Holograms using 2D Gaussians
Eurographics 2026 Posters
Xiaoyue Fan, Yicheng Zhan, Amrita Mazumdar, and Kaan Akşit
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2026 Clustered Codebook Quantization for 2D Gaussian-based Image Compression
ACM SIGGRAPH 2026 Posters
Runze Cheng, Yicheng Zhan, Josef Spjut, and Kaan Akşit
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2026 Hologram Representation via Quadratic Phase Gaussian Splatting
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 Tech Comm.
Haolong Wang, Yicheng Zhan, Kaan Akşit, and Simeng Qiu
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2025 Complex-Valued Holographic Radiance Fields
ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented in SIGGRAPH 2026)
Yicheng Zhan, Dong-Ha Shin, Seung-Hwan Baek, and Kaan Akşit
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2025 Assessing Learned Models for Phase-only Hologram Compression
ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 Posters
Zicong Peng, Yicheng Zhan, Josef Spjut, and Kaan Akşit
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2024 Focal Surface Holographic Light Transport using Learned Spatially Adaptive Convolutions
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2024 Tech Comm.
Chuanjun Zheng, Yicheng Zhan, Liang Shi, Ozan Cakmakci and Kaan Akşit
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2024 AutoColor: Learned Light Power Control for Multi-Color Holograms
SPIE VR/AR/MR 2024
Yicheng Zhan, Koray Kavaklı, Hakan Urey, Qi Sun, and Kaan Akşit
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2024 Configurable Holography: Towards Display and Scene Adaptation
ArXiv Preprint 2024
Yicheng Zhan, Liang Shi, Wojciech Matusik, Qi Sun, and Kaan Akşit
Languages
| English | |
| Fluent |
| Chinese | |
| Native |
Interests
| Compose Hiphop Music | |
| Sleep | |
| Long-distance Running |