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Pingchuan Ma

Ph.D. Student, MIT CSAIL
Email: pcma (at) csail.mit.edu
Office: MIT Stata Center 32-321
Biography
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Pingchuan Ma (馬平川) is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL advised by Prof. Wojciech Matusik. Previously, he worked with Prof. Bo Ren and Prof. Ming-Ming Cheng at Nankai University.
Name

Family name: () means horse.

Given name: (Píng) (chuān) means flat and level ground without geographical barrier.

Quoted from a Chinese idiom () () (píng) (chuān) , my full name means the flat ground that one can ride straight across and thus implies enjoying a smooth life.

(zhòng) (fēng) (lái) () (tiān) () (shān) (shì) (ruò) 駿(jùn) () (bèn) (píng) (chuān)

There are lots of mountains from Tianmu Mountain, which have the might of fine horses galloping across flat ground.

Publications
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ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2022
[Homepage] [Paper] [Code] [Video] [Slides]
Pingchuan Ma*, Tao Du*, and Wojciech Matusik
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020
[Homepage] [Paper] [Code] [Talk] [Slides]
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2018
[Homepage] [Paper] [Video]
Preprints
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Education
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | Minor in Finance
Cambridge, MA
Sep. 2019 - Present
S.M. in Computer Science
Cambridge, MA
Sep. 2019 - Jan. 2023
B.Eng. in Software Engineering
Tianjin, China
Sep. 2015 - Jun. 2019
Experience
Research Assistant | Advisor: Prof. Wojciech Matusik
Cambridge, MA
Sep. 2019 - Present
Teaching Assistant | 6.4420/6.8420 Advanced Computer Graphics
Cambridge, MA
Sep. 2022 - Dec. 2022
Research Intern | Advisor: Prof. Chuang Gan
Cambridge, MA
Jun. 2021 - Aug. 2021
Research Intern | Advisors: Dr. Xiaojie Jin and Dr. Jianchao Yang
Beijing, China
Jul. 2019 - Aug. 2019
Research Assistant | Advisor: Prof. Jia Pan
Hong Kong
Feb. 2019 - May 2019
Research Intern | Advisors: Prof. Ping Luo and Dr. Wei Zhang
Shenzhen, China
May 2018 - Feb. 2019
Research Assistant | Advisors: Prof. Bo Ren and Prof. Ming-Ming Cheng
Tianjin, China
Apr. 2016 - Jun. 2019