Weikai (Wei-Kai) Lin

Department of Computer Science @ University of Rochester, NY, USA

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I am a Ph.D. student at University of Rochester, advised by Yuhao Zhu. Previously, I earned B.E. from Tsinghua University and M.Sc. from Peking University. Find more details in my CV.
đź’» My current research aims to bridge the gap between hardware and software through system-level co-optimization, including but not limited to:

  • 🚀 AR/VR Neural Rendering and Acceleration: Developing neural rendering algorithms for AR/VR systems and designing corresponding hardware accelerators. [SIGGRAPH Asia'25, ASPLOS'25a, ASPLOS'25b, ISCA'25, HotMobile'25, TACO'24]
  • đź“· Imaging System Design: Designing sensors and optics for imaging systems, along with co-optimized downstream vision models. [DAC'25, WACV'25]

👉 If you are interested in collaboration, Feel free to reach out via email: wlin33 at ur.rochester.edu.

News🔥

Sep 19, 2025 Our paper, PowerGS, accepted to Siggraph Asia 2025. See you in Hong Kong.
Apr 01, 2025 Our paper, Metasapiens, received ASPLOS’25 Best Paper Award.
Mar 22, 2025 Our paper, Lumina, accepted to ISCA 2025.
Feb 15, 2025 Our paper, SnapPix, accepted to DAC 2025.
Jan 31, 2025 Awarded the OpenAI Research Access Grant.
Jan 28, 2025 Our paper, StreamGrid, accepted to ASPLOS 2025.
Dec 16, 2024 Our paper on streaming 3DGS accepted to HotMobile 2025.
Oct 28, 2024 Our paper, PrivateEye, accepted to WACV 2025.
Oct 02, 2024 Our paper, Metasapiens, accepted to ASPLOS 2025.

Selected publicationsđź“ť

( * Indicates Equal contributions.)
  1. SIGGRAPH Asia
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    PowerGS: Display–Rendering Power Co-Optimization for Neural Rendering in Power-Constrained XR Systems
    Weikai Lin, Sushant Kondguli, Carll Marshall, and 1 more author
    In SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers, 2025
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  2. ArXiv
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    ControlHair: Physically-based Video Diffusion for Controllable Dynamic Hair Rendering
    Weikai Lin, Haoxiang Li, and Yuhao Zhu
    In arXiv:2509.21541, 2025
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  3. DAC
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    SnapPix: Efficient-Coding–Inspired In-Sensor Compression for Edge Vision
    Weikai Lin*, Tianrui Ma*, Adith Boloor, and 4 more authors
    In 62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2025
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  4. ASPLOS
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    MetaSapiens: Real-Time Neural Rendering with Efficiency-Aware Pruning and Accelerated Foveated Rendering
    🏆 ASPLOS Best Paper Award
    Weikai Lin*, Yu Feng*, and Yuhao Zhu
    In 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2025
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  5. ASPLOS
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    StreamGrid: Streaming Point Cloud Analytics via Compulsory Splitting and Deterministic Termination
    Yu Feng*, Zheng Liu*, Weikai Lin*, and 6 more authors
    In 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), 2025
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  6. ISCA
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    Lumina: Real-Time Mobile Neural Rendering by Exploiting Computational Redundancy
    Yu Feng, Weikai Lin, Yuge Cheng, and 6 more authors
    In 52nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2025
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  7. TACO
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    Potamoi: Accelerating Neural Rendering via a Unified Streaming Architecture
    Yu Feng*, Weikai Lin*, Zihao Liu, and 6 more authors
    In ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), 2024
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