Photo taken in 2026 by Yash Belhe

Xuanda Yang 杨玄达

PhD Student
Computer Science & Engineering Department
Jacobs School of Engineering
University of California, San Diego

Curriculum Vitae

I am a fifth-year PhD student at the University of California San Diego, advised by Prof. Tzu-Mao Li. I am very fortunate to work closely with Sai Bangaru from NVIDIA Research, Andrew Adams and Derek Gerstmann from Adobe Research. Together we are trying to make domain-specific languages more correct and more performant.

Expected graduation: December 2026. Open to research/engineering positions in compilers, programming languages, graphics or anything performance related! Please feel free to reach out!

Publications

Spatiotemporal Bilateral Gradient Filtering for Inverse Rendering [page] [pdf] [code] [bibtex]

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024

Wesley Chang*, Xuanda Yang*, Yash Belhe*, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Tzu-Mao Li

(*equal contribution)

Distributions for Compositionally Differentiating Parametric Discontinuities [pdf] [code] [bibtex]

OOPSLA 2024

Jesse Michel, Kevin Mu, Xuanda Yang, Sai Preveen Bangaru, Elias Rojas Collins, Gilbert Bernstein, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley, Michael Carbin, Tzu-Mao Li

AStitch: Enabling A New Multi-Dimensional Optimization Space for Memory-Intensive ML Training and Inference on Modern SIMT Architectures [pdf] [bibtex]

ASPLOS 2022

Zhen Zheng, Xuanda Yang, Pengzhan Zhao, Guoping Long, Kai Zhu, Feiwen Zhu, Wenyi Zhao, Xiaoyong Liu, Jun Yang, Jidong Zhai, Shuaiwen Leon Song, Wei Lin

Neural Reflectance Capture in the View-Illumination Domain [pdf] [bibtex]

IEEE TVCG, 29, 2(Feb. 2023)

Kaizhang Kang, Minyi Gu, Cihui Xie, Xuanda Yang, Hongzhi Wu, Kun Zhou

QuanTaichi: A Compiler for Quantized Simulations [page] [pdf] [bibtex]

SIGGRAPH 2021

Yuanming Hu, Jiafeng Liu, Xuanda Yang, Mingkuan Xu, Ye Kuang, Weiwei Xu, Qiang Dai, William T. Freeman, Fredo Durand

Experience

NVIDIA Research, Redmond » Research Intern, worked on shading language performance.

Jun 2025 - Sep 2025

Adobe Research, San Francisco » Research Intern, worked on fuzzing compilers.

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

Adobe Research, Remote » Research Intern, worked on autoscheduling.

Jun 2022 - Sep 2022

Alibaba Cloud, Hangzhou » Research Intern, worked on deep learning compiler.

Mar 2021 - Jul 2021

Zhejiang University » State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG » Research Assistant, worked on material acquisition.

Aug 2018 - Jun 2020

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Advanced Physics Engines 2020: A Hands-on Tutorial (GAMES 201), Online Course, Summer 2021.
Teaching Assistant, CSE8A Introduction to Programming I, Winter 2026.

Service

Reviewer: SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia

Address

Office 4148
Dept of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0404