Hanke Chen
CMU(2020) -> Midjourney(2023) -> [?](2025) | Ugrad @CMU(CS+Art)_
I am Hanke Chen , an undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University persuing Computer Science and Art. Currently, I am working on Katzuki (Artists' Tool for 3D Creation). Also part of SIG@CMU adviced by Prof. Minchen Li. Before this, I do R&D for Midjourney and research for WiSELab@CMU advised by Prof. Anthony Rowe and Tianshu Huang.
I used to compete in ML Competitions (Kaggle) in high school and soloed world 1st, and occasionally SQL-injected Stanford's website. In middle school, I founded KokiCraft: video game played by 300,000+ players.
Did projects with:
My selected tech articles:
- CUDA: All-in-One Tutorial for CUDA Programming
- NeRF: Research about Neural Radiance Field
- Kubernetes: Practical Kubernetes
- CPP: Hacks in C++ Programming
- PCB: Circuit Board Design and Manufacture Tutorial
- Keyboard: Tutorial on Designing Keyboard Hardware and Software
- FPV: Recipe for Assembling and Flying Your Own Drone
- Diffusion: Random Notes about Diffusions
- Blockchain All-in One: All You Need to Know About Blockchain
Games I made: Winter, Empyrean, CryptoEggs, SwingSimulator, ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsAFerretAndForcedToClimbForMyFreedom, and Teledot.
Side projects: 2ch3 (social media app on Gnosis blockchain), KokiPad (unconventional keyboard hard+soft+firmware from scratch), quantum computer simulator.
Research
Artists sell ideas. The best artists are researchers. I do whatever it takes to get things done and NOT STUCK IN ONE FIELD.
I am 80% an engineer and 20% an artist, which means MY RESEARCH IS USUALLY PRODUCT-ORIENTED.
Current Research area: NeRF / 3D Reconstruction -> Diffusion / 3D Generation
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MCDiffuse v3 Hanke Chen* and other people TBD
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TRELLISWorld: Training-Free World Generation from Object Generators Hanke Chen*, Yuan Liu†, Minchen Li† ICLR 2026 (in review)
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PAT3D: Physics-Augmented Text-to-3D Scene Generation Guying Lin, Kemeng Huang, Michael Liu, Ruihan Gao, Hanke Chen, Lyuhao Chen, Beijia Lu, Taku Komura†, Yuan Liu†, Jun-Yan Zhu†, Minchen Li† ICLR 2026 (in review)
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Magic Easel: Leveraging Environmental Context and Dynamic Semantic Modulation in AI Creativity Support Lia Purnamasari*, Hanke Chen*, Shivani Kannan, Joseph Ratliff, Haeyoung Kim† CHI 2026 (in review)
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MCDiffuse v2: Arbitrary-Size Image-Conditioned Minecraft Structure Generation Technical Report 2024
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MCDiffuse v1: Diffusion Modelings for Minecraft Technical Report 2024
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A Multilingual (Chinese-main) Text-to-Speech Model Showreel (2024). Honestly the quality beats commercial models made by Tencent / Microsoft. It's pure engineering. I made it mostly for reading Japanese light novels for me.
Video | Python Package (arpapy: a package to let TTS models to speak IN ANY LANGUAGE) |
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A Creeper Hole is Worth 16x16x16 Words: Transformers for Block Deterioration at Stale SIGBOVIK 2025 (Oral). 16x16x16 worth of satire.
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FART-NeRF: Fast Accumulative Realtime Training of Neural Radiance Field Project 2023 @ CMU WiSELab. Speed up NeRF training from 40s to 1s w/ multilevel page table.
Log | Concurrent work Gaussian Splatting beat me on explicit NeRF, so not gonna publish. |
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Practical NeRFology: A Brief Commentary on Neural Radiance Fields Technical Report 2023 @ CMU WiSELab.
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Extracting Cellular Location of Human Proteins Using Deep Learning arXiv 2018 @ SSFS. Work done in highschool. Do not look at it.
Code | This is something written by a dumb high-schooler under no guidance. Don't look at it. |
Talks & Teaching & Consulting & Service
Reviewer: [CAG 2025]
Consulting: [@ Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.], [@ Tegus, Inc.]
Teaching: [98-205 Introduction to Minecraft] (@ CMU StuCo, S23, F23, S24, F24, S25, F25, S26)
Talks: [NeRF @WiSELab, Aug.8 2022], [Distribution Matching @SIG, Oct.4 2024]
Products
Things people enjoy usually take years to complete.
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Untitled Project about Minecraft On-going Project.
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KatUI: Kinda Artist-Friendly User Interface On-going Project. 3D generation interface.
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DeepVocab: NLP-based Vocab Memorization App Hanke Chen*, Zixin Yang, Owen Li, Yufei Wu, and 3 others 2020-2022. Commercial vocab app that send push notification at the moment you forget.
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KokiCraft: Grand Theft Auto in Minecraft 2014-2018. My commercial game server played by 350k players.
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Music Production / Artwork
Fun stuff, may or may not be technical, in various medium.
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Untitled Japanese Vocaloid Song On-going Project. Full 3min-ish original song (maybe with video).
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[セツナキドーター]: Unfinished Vocaloid Music Cover On-going Project. Synthesizer practice (miku not tuned, not mastered, so it sounds bad currently).
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Bubble In the Lab 2025 (OST for Game "Lab Escape"). Soundtrack for Game.
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Fatty Ferret 2023 (OST for Game "ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsAFerretAndForcedToClimbForMyFreedom"). Soundtrack for Game.
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Teledot: Teleport and Kill Each Other Franklin Xu*, Hanke Chen*, Bosi Li*, Sabrina* 2023. Multiplayer tactic action game.
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KokiPad: Build Keyboard (Hardware, Firmware, Software) From Scratch 2023. Unusual keyboard designed and manufactured by hand from scratch.
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CryptoEggs: Breed your own Cryptomon on Blockchain 2022. Breedin simulation game on Genesis blockchain.
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Empyrean: Multiplayer Shooter Game on Network Amy Lin, Adrian Jenkins, Andres Mason, Daniel Gunawan, Emily Xie, Gerald Kim, Mona Lin, Will Huang, Andy Kim, Hanke Chen, Jean Cho, Leah Minsky, Sarah Wang, Brandan Chen, Steve Lu, Basil Collis 2021. Multiplayer FPS game with networking.
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Sanity
If you actually care about me. Switch off my sanity on the top left corner.
