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Head of XR. Oversee strategy, product, technology development, and advanced research. Lead a multi-national and cross-functional team that developed multiple XR devices. Since 2019, OPPO has developed OPPO AR Glass (AIO prototype), OPPO AR Glass 2021 (dev-kit, phone-tethered), OPPO Air Glass (a product in the China market, smart monocle), OPPO Air Glass 2 (prototype, binocular display, smart glass), OPPO MR Glass Developer Edition, and OPPO Air Glass 3 (prototype, binocular full color AI glass).

Shaped the strategic plan and technology roadmap of OPPO XR across multiple departments. Led AR innovation (incl. CV, AI, 3D, etc.).

Built a team from the ground up. Our team developed the cv technologies and applications demonstrated on OPPO's 1st-gen AR glasses.

Shaped the road map of mobile Augment Reality research including scene understanding, and user interaction. Led research efforts on mobile AR innovation and virtual fitting.

Developed advanced CV and AI techniques for CapsoView; including deformable registration, object detection, image enhancement, classification, etc. Involved in full-cycle CapsoView software development.

R&D on a wide range of computer vision topics leveraging various funding sources including government contracts, internal funding, and external commercial partners. Topics of research include moving object detection from unmanned vehicles, robotic bin-picking, point cloud processing, 3D seismic data processing, etc. Wrote white papers and full proposals in response to BAAs from various agencies.

Developed novel methods for coded exposure photography and video deblurring with Amit Agrawal and Ramesh Raskar.