Tianyi Zhang
About Tianyi Zhang
Also Known As
- Tanki
Affiliations
- NVIDIA
Location
- Santa Clara, California, United States of America
Bio
SIGGRAPH 2025
Tianyi “Tanki” Zhang is a senior real-time rendering engineer at NVIDIA, working on the Omniverse RTX Renderer. As a rendering engineer, his focus includes real-time path tracing light transport algorithms and systems, path tracing real-time neural graphics primitive (gaussian, NeRF), ultra-realistic XR pipeline integrating path tracing and compositing. Previously, Tanki was a Rendering Engineer Intern at Epic Games, contributing to real-time ray tracing features for Unreal Engine. With a background in computer science, game development, and art design, he is passionate about pushing the boundaries of computer graphics and shaping its future.
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Roles
- Course Organizer
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