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Hanke Chen

Prev R&D @Midjourney | Ugrad @CMU(CS+Art)_



I am , 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 . 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:

Research

Artists sell ideas. The best artists are researchers. My interest is too broad for me to write a single one down. 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;
  • 3D-aware intelligence;
  • World simulator;
But timing is important. So I build 3D generation tools now.

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A Paper about Minecraft Generation

Hanke Chen* and other people

AAAI 2026 / ICLR 2026

 

July 25 - Nov 3 or Sep 27 - Jan 22

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A Paper about Creativity and Image Generation

Hanke Chen* and other people

CHI 2026

 

Sep 4 - Jan 15

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A Paper about 3D Generation and Differentiable Simulation

Hanke Chen* and other people

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025

 

In Review

A Multilingual (Chinese-main) Text-to-Speech Model

Koke_Cacao*

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.

 

Click Here for Text Input (Non-cherry-picked Stress Test)
走进 “CHACO”，我瞥见玻璃柜角落标签： 5. la Roche – 手工饼干组合 6. la France – 水蜜桃千层酥 7. berry berry 三夜路店 – 冰雪西瓜优格 8. Humpty Dumpty – 义式奶酪 我指着糖渍栗子（Marron glacé）问：“这不是《あわてん坊のおつかい？》里的点心？” “不，是 Patisserie Kogi 出的，古城限定。”小佐内答，语气机械。 她将文件“mittunokimi.jpg”（三的你）打开，屏幕上闪出一段注释： “DNA 四种 nucleotide：A, C, G, T；蛋白质合成路径参考 ORCA 文档。” 下一页写着： maltase：麦芽糖↓葡萄糖 sucrase：蔗糖↓葡萄糖 我喝着 VAN HOUTEN 热可可，看着时间跳至 6/12（四）23:51。 “你居然不知道 Marronnier Champ 的主厨是栃野？”她眼神空洞。 我起身，看向贴着 “STUFF ONLY” 的门。店员沉默地擦着玻璃。 她忽然说：“Let's go.” 我脑中闪过文件页码：木良市防灾计画，p.11：Fireman = 热点牵引角色。 更多信息 → https://www.kokecacao.me

Video | Python Package (arpapy)

A Creeper Hole is Worth 16x16x16 Words: Transformers for Block Deterioration at Stale

Koke_Cacao*, 橘橘

SIGBOVIK 2025 (Oral). 16x16x16 worth of satire.

 

Paper | Proceedings

FART-NeRF: Fast Accumulative Realtime Traning of Neural Radiance Field

Hanke Chen*, Tianshu Huang

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.

Practical NeRFology: A Brief Commentary on Neural Radiance Fields

Hanke Chen*

Technical Report 2023 @ CMU WiSELab. Research survey paper on NeRF in 2023.

 

Draft

Extracting Cellular Location of Human Proteins Using Deep Learning

Hanke Chen*

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

Hanke Chen*

On-going Project.

 

Early 2026

KatUI: Kinda Artist-Friendly User Interface

Hanke Chen*, Haoming Zhang

On-going Project. 3D generation interface.

 

Coming Soon

DeepVocab: NLP-based Vocab Memorization App

Hanke Chen*, Zixin Yang, Owen Li, Yufei Wu

2020-2022. Push notification at the moment you forget.

 

Github

KokiCraft: Grand Theft Auto in Minecraft

Hanke Chen*

2014-2018. My commercial game server played by three hundred thousand players.

 

Video

Music Production / Artwork

Fun stuff, may or may not be technical, in various medium.

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Untitled Japanese Vocaloid Song

Hanke Chen*

On-going Project. Full 3min-ish original song (maybe with video).

 

50% progress. Aim to finish in end of 2025 / start of 2026.

[セツナキドーター]: Unfinished Vocaloid Music Cover

Hanke Chen*

On-going Project. Synthesizer practice (miku not tuned, not mastered, so it sounds bad currently).

 

Coming Soon

Bubble In the Lab

Hanke Chen*

2025 (OST for Game "Lab Escape"). Soundtrack for Game.

 

itch.io

Fatty Ferret

Hanke Chen*

2023 (OST for Game "ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsAFerretAndForcedToClimbForMyFreedom"). Soundtrack for Game.

 

Play | Video | itch.io

Teledot: Teleport and Kill Each Other

Franklin Xu, Hanke Chen, Bosi Li, Sabrina

2023. Multiplayer tactic action game.

 

Website

KokiPad: Build Keyboard (Hardware, Firmware, Software) From Scratch

Hanke Chen*

2023. Unusual keyboard designed and manufactured by hand from scratch.

 

Code

CryptoEggs: Breed your own Cryptomon on Blockchain

Hanke Chen*

2022. Breedin simulation game on Genesis blockchain.

 

Website (Metamask required)

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.

 

Website

Sanity

If you actually care about me. Switch off my sanity on the top left corner.