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 Paper about Minecraft Generation Hanke Chen* and other people AAAI 2026 / ICLR 2026
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A Paper about Creativity and Image Generation Hanke Chen* and other people CHI 2026
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A Paper about 3D Generation and Differentiable Simulation Hanke Chen* and other people SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
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A Multilingual (Chinese-main) Text-to-Speech Model 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.
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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 Traning of Neural Radiance Field Project 2023 @ CMU WiSELab. Speed up NeRF training from 40s to 1s.
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. Research survey paper on NeRF in 2023.
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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
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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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 2020-2022. 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 three hundred thousand 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.
