Hanke Chen
Prev R&D @Midjourney | 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. Also part of SIG@CMU adviced by Prof. Minchen Li. Before this, I was doing research for Midjourney. I was also doing research related to Neural Radiance Field in WiSELab @ CMU advised by Prof. Anthony Rowe and Tianshu Huang.
Previously, in 2014, I founded KokiCraft: a commercial video game played by 300,000+ players. In 2018, I got into Deep Learning and created RedstoneTorch: a large computer vision toolkit for competitive programming and got 1st place in Kaggle's Histopathologic Cancer Detection and wrote my shitty research paper on Computer Vision . 2018 summer, when taking Stanford's cs123, I SQL injected their website & reported. From 2020 to 2022, I worked on Android/IOS app DeepVocab on AppStore: a vocabulary memorization app aided by Deep Learning. From 2021, I joined GCS and published many games: Winter, Empyrean, CryptoEggs, SwingSimulator, ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsAFerretAndForcedToClimbForMyFreedom, and Teledot. In 2022, I deployed an experimental social media app 2ch3 on Gnosis blockchain and designed and manufactured a Printed Circuit Board KokiPad that became my personal keyboard. I got into quantum computing theory and coded quantum computer simulator.
I do:
Some selected 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
Research
Artists sell ideas. The best artists are researchers. My interest is too broad for me to write a single one down, but building democratizable human-like AI regardless of the methods is one of them. I do whatever it takes to get things done and NOT STUCK IN ONE FIELD. Some hard problems interests me:
- ML aided fault-tolerance quantum accelerator for simulated annealing;
- 3D-aware intelligence from 2D images w/ NeRF;
- large on-chain swarm learning with proofs;
- Observational Learning.
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A Creeper Hole is Worth 16x16x16 Words: Transformers for Block Deterioration at Stale Meow? (Waiting for something to happen?)
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FART-NeRF: Fast Accumulative Realtime Traning of Neural Radiance Field Project 2023 @ CMU WiSELab
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
Code | This is something written by a dumb high-schooler under no guidance. Don't look at it. |
Talks & Teaching & Consulting
Paid Expert (@ Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc., since March 2024)
Consulting Expert (@ Tegus, Inc., since February 2024)
Teaching: 98-205 Introduction to Minecraft (@ CMU StuCo, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
Talk: Neural Radiance Field (@ WiSE Lab, Aug.8 2022)
Projects
Long term project usually last years to complete.
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KatUI: Kinda Artist-Friendly User Interface On-going Project
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DeepVocab: NLP-based Vocab Memorization App Hanke Chen*, Zixin Yang, Owen Li, Yufei Wu 2020-2022
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KokiCraft: Grand Theft Auto in Minecraft 2014-2018
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Music Production / Artwork
Fun stuff, may or may not be technical, in various medium.
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[セツナキドーター]: Unfinished Vocaloid Music Cover On-going Project
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Bubble In the Lab 2025 (OST for Game "Lab Escape")
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Fatty Ferret 2023 (OST for Game "ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsAFerretAndForcedToClimbForMyFreedom")
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Teledot: Teleport and Kill Each Other Franklin Xu, Hanke Chen, Bosi Li, Sabrina 2023
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KokiPad: Build Keyboard (Hardware, Firmware, Software) From Scratch 2023
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CryptoEggs: Breed your own Cryptomon on Blockchain 2022
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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
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Sanity
If you actually care about me. Switch off my sanity on the top left corner.
