Chenyue Cai is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at Princeton University, advised by Prof. Szymon Rusinkiewicz. She worked closely with Masha Shugrina at Nvidia Research. Her research interest is in computer graphics, and she is currently focusing on artist-in-the-loop 3D generation pipelines. She holds a B.A. degree in Math, Computer Science, and History of Art at UC Berkeley. She has worked with Prof. Hao Li on virtual humans and virtual try-on. She was a teaching assistant for Computer Vision and Computational Photography and worked with Prof. Alexei A. Efros. In general, she is excited about visual computing and elegant methods.
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Apart from academics, Chenyue is an artist and art critic. She is fond of the intersection of science and art: how technology shapes artistic creation and how art opens the imagination to science. She studied European Avant-Garde Art under Prof. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby and Chinese Art History under Jun Hu. She was awarded the Samuel Silver Memorial Award for her contribution to connecting algorithms and art-historical analysis. She serves as one of the organizers of the Art of Science Exhibition at Princeton. Her work has been featured in NY Tech Week, Art of Science Exhibition, Moffitt Library Art Selection, Princeton Photograph Contest (top3), etc. Check out the Gallery to see some of her works.
She enjoys literature, the arts, nature, and food. It is through creation and thinking that she finds life meaningful. She speaks fluent English, Chinese, Shanghainese (hometown), elementary-level Japanese, and French.
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