Kexuan Zhang

Hello, I am Kexuan Zhang from China, currently pursuing a PhD in Perceptual Graphics at the University of Leeds under the supervision of Dr. Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos, Dr. Markus Billeter, and Prof. Gordon Love. I previously obtained my Master of Science degree in High-Performance Graphics and Games Engineering. Before that, I worked as a game server development engineer, specializing in C#, multithreading, network communication, and performance optimization.

My research interests are Virtual Reality (VR) and High-Performance Graphics (HPG).

The relative topics are: Foveated Rendering, Color / Depth / Texture Perception, Stereo Reprojection (Warping), Image Inpainting (Hole-filling), combining with high-performance graphics techniques. The libraries that I mainly use are Vulkan and OpenXR.

In my free time, I enjoy singing and coding—indeed, I feel uneasy without coding. I like to experiment with small projects, often porting games or software to my favorite handheld/console platforms or developing and implementing game engines and other tools, savoring the process of building something from scratch. I believe that the purpose of life is to satisfy one’s curiosity, continually create, and gain a sense of achievement.