Hello world, I am Hao Tan (谭昊). I have joined Adobe Research in Aug 2021. I was a Ph.D. student at UNC CS department from 2016 to 2021, advised by Mohit Bansal. I was supported by Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship for my Ph.D. study. Before joining UNC, I received BS in CS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. I was a member of ACM honored class.

My research goal is to build a virtual world. Specifically, I want to develop the technology that can both generate a virtural world and digitalize the real world. This is the only way that I can close to XR (cross reality).

I previously worked on static 3D generation and feed-forward reconstructions. I am now working on modeling the dynamic and complex worlds. It’s (maybe) obvious that the existing 3D pipeline can not support this goal in a scalable way thus I am considering rebuilding the pipeline. I have been betting on the advance of long-context technology and are actively working on that. We realized that the spirit of 3D is to compress and the compression problem is better to be formulated as long-context.

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