Scholar
Kenneth Chen
Google Scholar ID: QbGH0_AAAAAJ
New York University
Citations & Impact
Citations
101
H-index
5
i10-index
4
Publications
17
Co-authors
8
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Paper 'What is HDR? Perceptual Impact of Luminance and Contrast in Immersive Displays' accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2025.
- - Paper 'Image-GS: Content-Adaptive Image Representation via 2D Gaussians' accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2025.
- - Paper 'Cost-Aware Routing for Efficient Text-To-Image Generation' published on arxiv 2025.
- - Paper 'View Synthesis for 3D Computer-Generated Holograms Using Deep Neural Fields' published in Optics Express 2025.
- - Paper 'Process Only Where You Look: Hardware and Algorithm Co-optimization for Efficient Gaze-Tracked Image Rendering in Virtual Reality' accepted to ACM/IEEE ISCA 2025.
- - Paper 'Perceptually-Guided Acoustic “Foveation”' accepted to IEEE VR 2025.
- - Paper 'PEA-PODs: Perceptual Evaluation of Algorithms for Power Optimization in XR Displays' received Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) at ACM SIGGRAPH 2024.
- - Paper 'Exploiting Human Color Discrimination for Memory- and Energy-Efficient Image Encoding in Virtual Reality' accepted to ACM ASPLOS 2024.
Research Experience
- - Summer 2025, at the University of Cambridge working with Prof. Rafał Mantiuk.
- - During my PhD, I interned twice at Meta Reality Labs, mentored by Dr. Alex Chapiro.
Education
- PhD: New York University (since 2023), Advisor: Prof. Qi Sun; MS: New York University (2023); BA: UC Berkeley (2021), all in computer science.
Background
- I'm a 3rd year Computer Science PhD student at New York University, interested in studying how graphics and display systems can be optimized by understanding human visual perception.
Miscellany
- Feel free to reach out via email at kennychen@nyu.edu.
