🎓 About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Rochester advised by Yuhao Zhu, focusing on Computer Graphics, AR/VR, Sensor Design, Computer Architecture, and Robotics. My goal is to bridge the gap between hardware and software through system-level design and optimization.
     Previously, I earned my B.E. from Tsinghua University and my M.Sc. from Peking University. I have also interned at AMD and Cambricon Technologies. Find more details in my CV.

🤝 Looking for collaborations to work on impactful projects!
🌟 Actively seeking a summer internship opportunity for 2025!

🔥 News

🎉 2025.01: [Award] Awarded the OpenAI Research Access Grant.

🎉 2025.01: [Paper] Our paper, StreamGrid, accepted to ASPLOS 2025.

🎉 2024.12: [Paper] Our paper on streaming 3DGS accepted to HotMobile 2025.

🎉 2024.10: [Paper] Our paper, PrivateEye, accepted to WACV 2025.

🎉 2024.10: [Event] Presented a demo at the AR/VR Symposium. Event Details.

🎉 2024.10: [Paper] Our paper, MetaSapiens, accepted to ASPLOS 2025.

🎉 2024.08: [Paper] Our paper, Potamoi, accepted to TACO 2024.

🎉 2024.08: [Paper] Our paper, OW3Det, accepted to IROS 2024.

🎉 2024.09: [Event] Participated the NSF FuSe annual review in Oregon.

🎉 2024.04: [Event] Joined ASPLOS 2024 in San Diego, a wonderful experience!

🎉 2024.01: [Event] Proud to demo our project, HVS-VR (GitHub link), at EI-2024 in San Jose.

🎉 2024.01: [Project] Developed an end-to-end, highly optimized CPU/GPU/FPGA pipeline for our project, HVS-VR (GitHub link), idea is from an ASPLOS 2024 paper of our lab.

📝 Publications Since 2024

( * Indicates Equal contributions.)

ASPLOS 2025
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MetaSapiens: Real-Time Neural Rendering with Efficiency-Aware Pruning and Accelerated Foveated Rendering
Weikai Lin*, Yu Feng*, and Yuhao Zhu
In 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2025)
[Project Page], [Paper], [Code]
ASPLOS 2025
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StreamGrid: Streaming Point Cloud Analytics via Compulsory Splitting and Deterministic Termination
Yu Feng*, Zheng Liu*, Weikai Lin*, Zihan Liu, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, Zhezhi He, Jieru Zhao, and Yuhao Zhu
In 30th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2025)
[Paper (Coming Soon)],
WACV 2025
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PrivateEye: In-Sensor Privacy Preservation Through Optical Feature Separation
Adith Boloor, Weikai Lin, Tianrui Ma, Yu Feng, Yuhao Zhu, Xuan Zhang
In IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2025 (WACV 2025)
[Paper]
HotMobile 2025
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Advancing Immersive Content Delivery with Dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting
Nan Wu*, Weikai Lin*, Ruizhi Cheng*, Bo Chen, Yuhao Zhu, Klara Nahrstedt, Bo Han
In 26th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2025)
[Paper(Coming Soon)]
TACO 2024
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Potamoi: Accelerating Neural Rendering via a Unified Streaming Architecture
Yu Feng*, Weikai Lin*, Zihan Liu, Jingwen Leng, Minyi Guo, Han Zhao, Xiaofeng Hou, Jieru Zhao, Yuhao Zhu
In ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO 2024)
[Paper]
IROS 2024
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OW3Det: Toward Open-World 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving
Wenfei Hu, Weikai Lin, Hongyu Fang, Yi Wang, Dingsheng Luo
In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2024 (IROS 2024)
[Paper]
arXiv 2024
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RTGS: Enabling Real-Time Gaussian Splatting on Mobile Devices Using Efficiency-Guided Pruning and Foveated Rendering
Weikai Lin, Yu Feng, and Yuhao Zhu
In arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00435v2
(Preprint and Shortened Version of MetaSapiens)
[Paper]
Open-Sourced Project
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📚 [Full Publications List (Google Scholar)]


📖 Educations

University of Rochester Logo

University of Rochester: Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2023-Present

  • Advisor: Yuhao Zhu
  • Current GPA: 3.96/4.0
  • Research Interests: Computer Graphics, AR/VR, Sensor Design, Computer Architecture.

Peking University Logo

Peking University: M.Sc. in Intelligence Science and Technology, 2020-2023

  • Advisor: Dingsheng Luo
  • GPA: 3.73/4.0 (90+/100)
  • Research Interests: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Driving.

Tsinghua University Logo

Tsinghua University: B.E. in Electronic Engineering, 2016-2020

  • Advisor: Li Su
  • Research Interests: Software-Hardware Co-design, Error Correction Code in Wireless Communication System.

💻 Internships

AMD Logo

2022.07 - 2023.02, AMD, Beijing, China

  • SLAMs for Autonomous Driving System
  • AMD GPUs Testing and Evaluation

Chinese Academy of Sciences Logo

2022 - 2023, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

  • HLS-based (High-Level-Synthesis) wireless communication system development

Cambricon Logo

2019.07 - 2019.08, Cambricon, Beijing, China

  • Neural Networks pruning