Welcome! I'm a 2nd year Computer Science PhD student at New York University,
advised by Prof. Qi Sun.
I'm interested in studying how graphics and display systems can be optimized by understanding human visual perception.
This summer, I am at the University of Cambridge working with Prof. Rafał Mantiuk.
During my PhD, I interned twice at Meta Reality Labs, both times hosted by Dr. Alex Chapiro.
Before my PhD, I did an MS at NYU (2023) and a BA at UC Berkeley (2021).
I'm happy to chat about research or anything else; email me at kennychen@nyu.edu!
Toward Optimized VR/AR Ergonomics: Modeling and Predicting User Neck Muscle Contraction Yunxiang Zhang,
Kenneth
Chen,
Qi Sun
ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Leveraging EMG devices, we developed a model to predict VR neck muscular workload. project page PDF doi code video
University of Cambridge | Visiting Scholar, June 2025 - August 2025
Working on image quality metrics, mentored by Prof. Rafał Mantiuk.
Meta | Research Scientist Intern, June 2024- January 2025
Studied/modeled contrast and luminance preferences in HDR displays, mentored by Dr. Alexandre Chapiro.
Meta | Research Scientist Intern, June 2023 - January 2024
Studied the visibility of display power optimization algorithms, mentored by Dr. Alexandre Chapiro.
Cesium | Research Scientist Intern, June 2022 - August 2022
Created an audience video dataset, supervised by Prof. Norman I. Badler.