Experience

• May 2024 - Present
  Lighting Intern - Genshin Impact at miHoYo / HoYoverse
  Shanghai, CN

  Upcoming lighting intern to the Genshin team

• May 2023 - August 2023
  Lighting Intern at Insomnaic Games
  Burbank, California

  • Worked closely with Art Director Gavin Goulden, created the lighting and renders of 15 character marketing stills, including key characters like Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Miles, and Venom. Approved by studio Art Directors and Marvel.
  
  • Polished, relit, and optimized in-game cut scenes in cinematics worth of 13 minutes to final ship level
  
  • Engaged in Masterclass and Talk-shops held by heads from all 22 department and CEO, learned departmental skills
  
  • Worked closely along the lighting department lead, GDC presenter Brian Mullen; learned industry rendering workflow

• November 2023 - May 2024
  Lighting Artist at BlueReelStudio
  SE

  • Led the lighting development for the arena section after 1:20 in the ESL Counter-Strike IEM Katowice 2024 Cinematic under tight deadline.
  
  • Designed the master environment lighting and weather using UE5 with Lumen. I also did the lighting for 8 other closeup shots using Path Tracer in UE

• February 2023 - April 2023
  Lighting & Lookdev Artist at Bewildered Studios

  • Freelance Lighting & Lookdev for in-development UE5 stylized game

• January 2024 - Present
  Teaching Assistant - Advanced 3D at University of Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, US

• August 2023 - December 2023
  Co-Lecturer / Graduate Teaching Assistant - 3D Fundamentals at University of Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, US

  • Helped with teaching 3D modeling, texturing, lighting/rendering across industry-standard softwares and pipeline in a classroom of 35 students
  
  • Lead weekly office hours for students and teach industry 3D modeling workflows in Maya to facilitate learning

• September 2022 - Present
  Co-President at ACM SIGGRAPH UPenn Chapter