Hongyi Sun

Cambridge, MA · (857) 928-0633 · hongyi_sun@fas.harvard.edu

I am a graduate computer science student at Harvard University, currently in my first year. My research interests lie in the area of computer vision and machine learning, more specifically, neural scene representations, 3D reconstruction and differentiable rendering.

You can check out my CV here.


Research Projects

Differentiable rendering for driving simulation

Robotic Vision & Learning Lab, University of Toronto

Worked with professor Florian Shkurti on imitating a game engine using a differentiable neural network renderer to help train an autonomous driving policy.

June 2020 - May 2021

CoordX: Accelerating Implicit Neural Representation with a Split MLP Architecture

University of Toronto

Working with professor Nandita Vijaykumar on accelerating coordinate-based multilayer perceptron (MLP) networks.

Accepted at The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2022

arXiv

OpenReview link

GitHub

June 2021 - Present

Education

Harvard University

Master of Science
Computational Science and Engineering
September 2022 - December 2023 (Expected)

University of Toronto, St.George Campus

Bachelor of Science
Computer Science - focus in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision

GPA: 3.99/4.00

September 2017 - April 2022

Projects

Position Based Fluid Simulations

A C++ implementation of the paper Position Based Fluids

Tools/Frameworks used: libigl, Eigen


Interests

Apart from computer science, I enjoy listening to various kind of musics, such as: Fear Inoculum by TOOL

I'm also quite addicted to video games, especially RPGs and well-written story-based games, recently a few of my favourites are Divinity: Original Sin I&II, Pathfinder series.


Awards

  • The Professor William Kingston and Dr John Kingston Scholarship ($1,000)
  • F Ray Irwin Scholarship ($1,000)
  • NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award ($7,500)
  • Dean List Scholars