Yong He

About Yong He

Affiliations

Carnegie Mellon University

Location

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Bio

SIGGRAPH 2025

Yong is a principal engineer at NVIDIA driving the Slang programming language. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in September 2018. His thesis started the Slang project, and he has been a lead contributor to the Slang shading language ever since.

Conference Contributions

Learning

Courses

An Introduction to Neural Shading

SIGGRAPH 2025

[Courses]

Organizer(s):

• Nathaniel Duca

Presenter(s):

• Nathaniel Duca
• Yong He
• Benedikt Bitterli
• Chris Cumings
• Alexey Bekin
• Alexey Panteleev
• Aaron E. Lefohn

Technical Papers

SLANG.D: Fast, Modular and Differentiable Shader Programming

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Sai Praveen Bangaru
• Lifan Wu
• Tzu-Mao Li
• Jacob Munkberg
• Gilbert Louis Bernstein
• Jonathan Ragan-Kelley
• Aaron E. Lefohn
• Frédo Durand
• Yong He

A system for rapid, automatic shader level-of-detail

SIGGRAPH Asia 2015

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Yong He
• Tim Foley
• Natalya Tatarchuk
• Kayvon Fatahalian

Slang: language mechanisms for extensible real-time shading systems

SIGGRAPH 2018

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Yong He
• Kayvon Fatahalian
• Tim Foley

Entry #: 141

Shader components: modular and high performance shader development

SIGGRAPH 2017

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Yong He
• Tim Foley
• Teguh Hofstee
• Haomin Long
• Kayvon Fatahalian

A system for rapid exploration of shader optimization choices

SIGGRAPH 2016

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Yong He
• Tim Foley
• Kayvon Fatahalian

Extending the graphics pipeline with adaptive, multi-rate shading

SIGGRAPH 2014

[Technical Papers]

Presenter(s):

• Yong He
• Yan Gu
• Kayvon Fatahalian

Other Information

Roles

Course Organizer

Technical Paper Presenter

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