Feng Zheng (郑峰) Ph.D. UNC-CH, 2015 Senior Software Engineer Magic Leap, Inc. Email: zhengf[AT]cs.unc.edu CV | LinkedIn

Sept 12, 2015	I'm honored to serve as a session chair in ISMAR 2015. Looking forward to meeting you in Fukuoka, Japan!
Mar 30, 2015	I joined Magic Leap as a Senior Software Engineer.
Mar 4, 2015	Successfully defended my PhD!
Sept 15-17, 2014	Invited to attend the workshop "Taking AR to Next Level" held by Christian Doppler Lab on Handheld Augmented Reality at Graz, Austria.
Sept 10-12, 2014	Presented my two first-auhtor papers at ISMAR 2014 (Munich, Germany).
Summer, 2014	Spent a wonderful summer interning at Microsoft Research Redmond.
Apr 8, 2014	Awarded Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the UNC graduate school.

Short Bio

I am a Senior Software Engineer at Magic Leap, Inc.. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in March 2015. My Ph.D. advisor is Prof. Greg Welch. I received my B.E. in Software Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2010.

Research Interests

• Augmented Reality: Optical and Video See-Through AR, Projector-Based Spatial AR
  
• Computer Vision: SLAM, 3D Tracking, Optical Flow, Calibration
  
• Computer Graphics: Real-Virtual Coherent Rendering, Natural Interaction
  

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010 — 2015.
• B.E. with Highest Distinction, Software Engineering, School of Software, Beijing Institute of Tecnology, 2006 — 2010.

Publications

• Title: Spatio-Temporal Registration in Augmented Reality
• Date: March 2015
• Advisor: Greg Welch
• Committee: Greg Welch, Gary Bishop, Henry Fuchs, Marc Niethammer, Zhengyou Zhang
• PDF: http://cs.unc.edu/~zhengf/dissertation.pdf
• PPT: http://cs.unc.edu/~zhengf/defense_slides.pptx
  

• Hrvoje Benko, Eyal Ofek, Feng Zheng, and Andrew D. Wilson. FoveAR: Combining an Optically See-Through Near-Eye Display with Spatial Augmented Reality Projections. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Charlotte, NC, USA, Nov 2015.
• Feng Zheng, Dieter Schmalstieg and Greg Welch. Pixel-Wise Closed-Loop Registration in Video-Based Augmented Reality. IEEE ISMAR 2014, Munich, Germany, Sept 2014. [Paper] [Video (40MB)] [Slides (PPT, 107MB)]
• Feng Zheng, Turner Whitted, Anselmo Lastra, Peter Lincoln, Andrei State, Andrew Maimone and Henry Fuchs. Minimizing Latency for Augmented Reality Displays: Frames Considered Harmful. IEEE ISMAR 2014, Munich, Germany, Sept 2014. [Paper] [Video (File, 40MB)] [Video (YouTube)] [Slides (PPT, 250MB)]
• Feng Zheng, Ryan Schubert and Greg Welch. A General Approach for Closed-Loop Registration in AR. IEEE Virtual Reality (VR’13), Mar 2013. (Best Short Paper Nominee) [Paper] [Video (YouTube)]
• Feng Zheng and Hongsong Li. ARCrowd - A Tangible Interface for Interactive Crowd Simulation. ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’11), 2011. [Paper] [Video (YouTube)]
• Feng Zheng and Hongsong Li, Gangyi Ding, Zhangtao Huang, Changlu Zhang, and Longfei Zhang. A Crowd Control and Simulation System based on Augmented Reality. Journal of System Simulation, 2009. (in Chinese) [Paper]

• Feng Zheng, Ryan Schubert, and Greg Welch. A General Approach for Closed-Loop Registration in AR. Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR’12), Nov 2012. [Paper]
• Feng Zheng, Hongsong Li. ARCrowd - A Tangible Interface for Interactive Crowd Simulation. Proceedings of 9th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR’10), Oct 2010. [Paper]

• Feng Zheng. 3D Face Modeling and Pose Estimation in Face Recognition. Bachelor Thesis, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2010. [Link]
  Supervisors: Prof. Stan Z. Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Hongsong Li (Beijing Institute of Technology)

Research and Teaching Experience

• Research Intern, Natural Interaction Group, Microsoft Research, mentored by Dr. Hrvoje Benko, Dr. Eyal Ofek and Dr. Andy Wilson, Jun 2014 — Sept 2014.
• Conducted cutting-edge research on next-generation Spatial AR and Optical-See-Through AR.
  
• Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill, supervised by Prof. Henry Fuchs, Sept 2013 — May 2014.
  
• Invented a novel algorithm for minimizing latency in Optical See-Through AR displays and generated a provisional patent.
  
• Research Intern, Visual Computing Group, Bosch Research, Palo Alto, CA, supervised by Dr. Liu Ren and Dr. Yu Sheng, May 2013 — Aug 2013.
• Developed a complete framework for Optical See-Through AR and built the first such demo at Bosch, and considered one of the best interns in the group since 2008. (Reference available upon request.)
  
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill, Jan 2013 — Apr 2013.
• Course title: COMP 110: Introduction to Programming. Instructor: Prof. Kye Hedlund.
• Mentored undergraduate students on Java programming and graded assignments and exams.
  
• Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, UNC-Chapel Hill, supervised by Prof. Greg Welch and Prof. Henry Fuchs, Sept 2010 — Dec 2012.
• Developed new algorithms for projector-based Spatial AR, including projector-camera calibration and tracking.
  
• Undergraduate Research Intern, Center for Biometrics and Security Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, supervised by Prof. Stan Z. Li, Oct 2009 — Apr 2010.
• Developed an accurate model-based single-view face reconstruction method, using active shape model for feature localization and level set for facial boundary segmentation.
  
• Undergraduate Research Assistant, School of Software, Beijing Institude of Technology, supervised by Prof. Hongsong Li, Nov 2008 — Jul 2010.
• Created the first tangible AR interface for crowd and multi-agent simulation with intuitive marker-based gestures.
  

Honors and Awards

1. Dissertation Completion Fellowship, UNC, Apr 2014.
2. ISMAR Doctoral Consortium Award, Nov 2012.
3. Outstanding Graduate Award, BIT, Jul 2010. [Link]
4. Commencement Address Speaker, School of Software, BIT, May 2010. [Link]
5. 1st Prize in National Challenge Cup, China, Nov 2009. (the Olympics of science and technology among Chinese college students) [Link]
6. Outstanding Winner in Capital Challenge Cup, Beijing, China, Jun 2009. (top 5% among over 540 teams) [Link]
7. CASIC (China Aerospace Science & Industry Corp.) Fellowship, BIT, Oct 2009. (top 1% among over 2,000 undergraduate students) [Link]
8. Microsoft Innovative Team Fellowship, School of Software, BIT, Jul, 2009.
9. 2nd Prize in Software Design Competition of Microsoft Imagine Cup, China, May 2009. (4th place among over 3000 teams) [Link]
10. Honorable Mention of The Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), United States, Feb 2009. (top 15% among 1,675 teams) [Link]
11. 2nd Place in Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), Sep 2008. (top 8% among over 1,500 teams)
12. Outstanding Student Speaker in Annual Academic Symposium of School of Software, BIT, May 2008. [Link]
13. National Fellowship, China, Oct 2007. (the most prestigious fellowship in China)
14. Honor of Excellent Student, School of Software, BIT, 2007/2008/2009.
15. Outstanding Student Scholoarship, School of Software, BIT, 2007/2008/2009.

Professional Activities

• Reviewer for conferences SIGGRAPH Asia 2014, ISMAR 2014, VR 2014, 3DUI 2014, and journal Presence.
• Invited  attendee, “Taking  AR  to  Next  Level”  workshop, Christian Doppler Lab on Handheld Augmented Reality, Graz, Austria, September 15-17, 2014.
• Conference presentations at ISMAR 2010, ISMAR 2012, VR 2013, and ISMAR 2014.
• Student volunteer for VR 2013 at Orlando, FL.

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