cv.yml

- title: General Information
  type: map
  contents:
    - name: Full Name
      value: Jeffrey Liu
    - name: Languages
      value: English (Native Proficiency), Mandarin (Speaking Proficiency)

- title: Education
  type: time_table
  contents:
    - title: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science, Minor in Physics
      institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
      year: 2021 - 2025
      description:
        - Institutional GPA - 4.00
        - title: Relevant Coursework
          contents:
            - Probability Theory (A)
            - Computational Photography (A)
            - Interactive Computer Graphics (A+)
            - Deep Learning for Computer Vision (A)
            - Machine Perception (A+)
            - Applied Parallel Programming (A)
            - Numerical Analysis (A+)
            - Computer System Organization (In Progress)
            - Advanced Topics in Computer Architecture (Planned)
            - Parallel Computer Architecture (Planned)
            - Electromagnetic Fields (A+)
            - Light Lab (A+)
        - Activities - SIGGRAPH@UIUC, Table Tennis

- title: Research Experience
  type: time_table
  contents:
    - title: Undergraduate Researcher
      institution: UCI Physics-Based Graphics Lab (Advised by Prof. Shuang Zhao)
      year: 2024 - Present
      description:
        - TBA!

    - title: Research Intern
      institution: NVIDIA Real-Time Graphics (Advised by Dr. Chris Wyman)
      year: 2024 - Present
      description:
        - TBA!

    - title: Undergraduate Researcher
      institution: ILLIXR Lab (Advised by Prof. Sarita Adve)
      year: 2022-Present
      description:
        - Researching performance tradeoffs between accuracy of eye-tracking and quality of foveated rendering
        - Experimenting with custom late-stage asynchronous reprojection techniques to reduce motion-to-photon latency
        - Conducting user studies to evaluate latency compensation under various network conditions for offloaded rendering

    - title: Undergraduate Researcher
      institution: Illinois Mathematics Lab (Advised by Prof. Joseph Rosenblatt)
      year: 2023
      description:
        - Evaluated the quality of low-degree spherical harmonic terms for function reconstruction
        - Investigated the relation between spherical harmonics, Fourier series, and their completeness as eigenfunctions

- title: Teaching Experience
  type: time_table
  contents:
    - title: Lead Course Assistant
      institution: UIUC CS 415 - Game Development
      year: 2021-2024
      description:
        - Worked for 5 semesters (FA21, SP22, FA22, FA23, SP24) to develop and refine assignments
        - Consulted 4-6 project teams per semester, directing progress towards 3 milestones for a course-long project to create a game
        - Mentored individual students catching up on course material or needing specific help

- title: Work Experience
  type: time_table
  contents:
    - title: XR Engineering Intern
      institution: Epic Games
      year: 2023
      description:
        - Added support for split-screen rendering of DFAO in UE5
        - Investigated optimizations for multi-view rendering to reduce memory usage by >50% while maintaining TSR stability

    - title: Software Engineer Consultant
      institution: Glodon USA East Coast
      year: 2021
      description:
        - Developed integration and performance tests to support headless testing by parsing Nsight Systems’ raw SQL for CPU/GPU workloads
        - Improved coverage by 3x and efficiency by 80x

- title: Open Source Contributions
  type: time_table
  contents:
    - title: <a href="https://illixr.org/">ILLIXR Testbed</a>
      year: 2022-Present
      description:
        - Updating graphics backend from OpenGL to Vulkan
        - Implementing new asynchronous reprojection algorithms
    - title: <a href="https://www.blender.org/">Blender</a>
      year: 2022
      description:
        - Implemented “Importance Sampling of Many Lights with Adaptive Tree Splitting” in Cycles (released in Blender 3.5)
        - Wrote weekly community progress updates and a technical development log, totaling over 30,000 views

    - title: <a href="https://brlcad.org/">BRL-CAD</a>
      year: 2020
      description: Integrated the appleseed production renderer for BRL-CAD geometry with custom ray-intersections.

- title: Honors and Awards
  type: time_table
  contents:
    - year: 2021-2024
      items:
        - Dean's List FA21, SP22, FA22, SP23, FA23, SP24
    - year: 2019
      items:
        - Google Code-in Grand Prize Winner