Hanke Chen
CMU(2020) -> Midjourney(2023) -> CMU(2026) | 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 (Artists' Tool for 3D Creation). Also part of SIG@CMU adviced by Prof. Minchen Li. Before this, I do R&D for Midjourney and research for WiSELab@CMU advised by Prof. Anthony Rowe and Tianshu Huang.
I make music, games, and products. I used to compete in Kaggle and FTC in high school. I used to own a RPG game played by 300,000+ players. Switch off my sanity on the top left to find out more.
Selected blog posts:
- 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. I do whatever it takes to get things done and NOT STUCK IN ONE FIELD. I am 80% an engineer and 20% an artist, which means MY RESEARCH IS USUALLY PRODUCT-ORIENTED.
Current Research interests: make tools for artists, which often involve NeRF / 3D Reconstruction -> Diffusion / 3D Generation
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MCDiffuse v3 Hanke Chen* and other people TBD
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TRELLISWorld: Training-Free World Generation from Object Generators Hanke Chen*, Yuan Liu†, Minchen Li† ICLR 2026 (in review)
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PAT3D: Physics-Augmented Text-to-3D Scene Generation Guying Lin, Kemeng Huang, Michael Liu, Ruihan Gao, Hanke Chen, Lyuhao Chen, Beijia Lu, Taku Komura†, Yuan Liu†, Jun-Yan Zhu†, Minchen Li† ICLR 2026 (in review)
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Magic Easel: Leveraging Environmental Context and Dynamic Semantic Modulation in AI Creativity Support Lia Purnamasari*, Hanke Chen*, Shivani Kannan, Joseph Ratliff, Haeyoung Kim† CHI 2026 (in review)
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MCDiffuse v2: Arbitrary-Size Image-Conditioned Minecraft Structure Generation Technical Report 2024
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MCDiffuse v1: Diffusion Modelings for Minecraft Technical Report 2024
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FART-NeRF: Fast Accumulative Realtime Training of Neural Radiance Field Project 2023 @ CMU WiSELab. Speed up NeRF training from 40s to 1s w/ multilevel page table.
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.
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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 & Service
Reviewer: [CAG 2025]
Consulting: [@ Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.], [@ Tegus, Inc.]
Teaching: [98-205 Introduction to Minecraft] (@ CMU StuCo, S23, F23, S24, F24, S25, F25, S26)
Talks: [NeRF @WiSELab, Aug.8 2022], [Distribution Matching @SIG, Oct.4 2024]
Products
Things people enjoy usually take 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, and 3 others 2020-2022. Commercial vocab app that send 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 350k players.
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Music / Games / Artwork
Artistic 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 🎉 GGJ Judge's Award 🎉 2025 (OST for Game "Lab Escape" by Hanke Chen*, Bosi Li*, Enn Ruan*, Nellie Tonev*, Helen Yang*). Soundtrack for Game.
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Swing Simulator 2023. Can't be defined by genre - Game.
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Fatty Ferret 2023 (OST for Game "ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsAFerretAndForcedToClimbForMyFreedom" by Ashley Kim*, Hanke Chen*, Ines Rodríguez Hsu*, Alexander Su). Soundtrack for Game.
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Teledot: Teleport and Kill Each Other 🎉 GGJ Non-Traditional Award 🎉 Franklin Xu*, Hanke Chen*, Bosi Li*, Sabrina* 2023. Multiplayer tactic action game.
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MineShader: A tutorial for writing Minecraft shader 2022. Teaching material for 98-205 Introduction to Minecraft.
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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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Winter 2021. Walking simulator of winter environment. Snow shader.
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Side Projects / Satire
Fun stuff, may or may not be technical, in various medium.
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A Multilingual (Chinese-main) Text-to-Speech Model Showreel (2024). 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.
Video | Python Package (arpapy: a package to let TTS models to speak IN ANY LANGUAGE) |
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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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KokiPad: Build Keyboard (Hardware, Firmware, Software) From Scratch 2023. Unconventional keyboard designed and manufactured (hard+soft+firmware) from scratch.
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CryptoEggs: Breed your own Cryptomon on Blockchain 2022. Breedin simulation game on Genesis blockchain.
Website (Metamask required) | Website (CMU Game Creation Society) |
Sanity
If you actually care about me. Switch off my sanity on the top left corner.
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