Last Updated 10/2023 
HUACHUN ZHU 
EDUCATION 
Fudan University Shanghai, China 
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics 9/2014 - 7/2018 
• Dean’s list at the School of Mathematics (the “Su Buqing program”). 
• Symphony orchestra violinist. Intercollegiate chess player. Japan China student club president. 
• Exchange Student at the Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University. 10/2016 - 8/2017 
WORK EXPERIENCES 
Entertainment Team, Preferred Networks Tokyo, Japan, 9/2018 – Present 
 Engineering Manager 8/2020 – Present 
 Engineer 9/2018 – 8/2020 
• Full-stack developer of Crypko, a website for AI-empowered anime character creation. 
• Backend developer of Memes, a smartphone game adopting AI-crafted character aesthetics. 
• Developed an automatic 2D character motion API for IRIAM, a character live streaming APP. 
• Build deep learning infrastructure on Alibaba Cloud for production model inference with GPU. 
PROJECT AND INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCES 
Co-founder and Full-stack Developer, MakeGirlsMoe Team Shanghai, China, 12/2017 - 7/2018 
• Led the development of Crypko β, the world first blockchain application of AI-generated NFT. 
Machine Learning Intern, Preferred Networks Tokyo, Japan, 8/2017 – 9/2017   
• Trained and evaluated CNNs and GANs for image generation and inpainting using Chainer. 
Full-stack Developer Intern, Atmoph Kyoto, Japan, 2/2017 - 4/2017 
• Developed and released several features in Digital Window, such as smart scheduling. 
Quantitative Trading Intern, Shanghai Discovering Investment Shanghai, China, 1/2016 - 9/2016 
• Trained futures arbitrage models. Implemented trading algorithms and a back testing system. 
SKILLS 
• 3 natural languages: English with professional proficiency (GRE: 332/340, TOEFL: 110/120), 
Japanese with bilingual proficiency (JLPT N1: 169/180), and Chinese (Native). 
• 2 programming languages: Python and JavaScript. Experience with C, Java, and Solidity. 
• Container technologies: operating Kubernetes cluster with GPU nodes. Docker. Prometheus. 
• Fullstack technologies: Django, Vue.js, Jupyter, MLOps, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Redis, PostgreSQL. 
PUBLICATIONS 
• [WACV] Fast Nonlinear Image Unblending   2022 
• [CVPR] Surrogate Gradient Field for Latent Space Manipulation 2021 
• [CVPR] Fast Soft Color Segmentation    2020 
• [NeurIPS Workshop] Towards the Automatic Anime Characters Creation with GANs 2017 
MEDIA COVERAGES 
• [Bloomberg] AI Is Rewriting the Rules of $200 Billion Games Industry (featured in video) 2023 
• [Nikkei XTech] Crypko, a Deep Learning Tool to Generate Anime Characters (Japanese)    2019 
• [ITmedia] Engineer's AI Challenge: Crafting Infinite Custom Characters (Japanese) 2019 