AMY LIU

Year2025

WebGPU Gaussian Splat Renderer

October 2025 - October 2025 SCHOOL · SOLO

A real-time 3DGS Renderer deployed on the web -- render-optimized through spherical harmonics decoding, performance-optimized through compute pipelines.

#Year2025 #GPU_programming #GPU_profiling #GPU_optimization #rendering #render_pass #compute_shaders #algorithm_implementation #web #WebGPU #WGSL #Typescript #CSS
glRemix - OpenGL to DX12 Remastering Platform

October 2025 - December 2025 SCHOOL · TEAM OF 4

A platform to completely remaster decades-old, 32-bit, fixed-pipeline OpenGL games using modern real-time D3D12 raytraced lighting techniques.

#Year2025 #data_transfer #systems_programming #GPU_programming #GPU_optimization #GPU_profiling #Win32 #rendering #raytracing #performance_analysis #algorithm_implementation #C++ #Direct3D12 #Win32_API #OpenGL
WebGPU Forward+ & Clustered Deferred Renderer

October 2025 - October 2025 SCHOOL · SOLO

A GPU optimization-focused implementation of advanced rendering techniques in WebGPU and WGSL.

#Year2025 #GPU_programming #GPU_optimization #GPU_profiling #rendering #render_pass #compute_shaders #lighting #web #WebGPU #WGSL #Typescript
Tempest in Unreal Engine

October 2025 - November 2025 SCHOOL · TEAM OF 2

Tempest uses Unreal's Gameplay Ability System and Niagara VFX to build an exciting arena brawler with endless enemy waves and complex combat gameplay.

#Year2025 #game_development #ue5_gameplay_ability_system #ue5_niagara #game_physics #3D-modeling #Unreal_Engine #C++
Boids Simulation in CUDA

September 2025 - September 2025 SCHOOL · SOLO

A simulation of "Boids" in CUDA C++. Boids are a concept in artificial life algorithms that aim to emulate the collective flocking behavior of real-life birds.

#Year2025 #GPU_programming #graphical_user_interface #simulation #performance_analysis #GPU_optimization #GPU_profiling #CUDA #Nsight_Developer_Tools #C++ #CMake #OpenGL
Unity Hiverunner

August 2025 - September 2025 PERSONAL · SOLO

In a voxel-based world, play an ant who must balance risk vs. reward to escape from the honey-filled bee hive.

#Year2025 #game_development #voxels #particle_system #physically-based #game_physics #shading #rendering #render_pass #cg_toolbox_functions #algorithm_implementation #Unity_Game_Engine #C# #Compute_Shaders #Autodesk_Maya
Unity 3D Stylization

July 2025 - August 2025 SCHOOL · SOLO

Inspired by 2D concept art of the Tokyo Ghoul anime series, a suite of stylized surface shaders and post-processing shaders for Unity.

#Year2025 #shading #procedural #cel_shading #toon_shader #render_pass #rendering #lighting #cg_toolbox_functions #Unity_Game_Engine #C# #HLSL
Houdini Ruins Terrain Toolset

June 2025 - July 2025 PERSONAL · SOLO

A toolset for creating procedural ruined terrains in SideFX Houdini.

#Year2025 #game_art_challenge #procedural #tech_art #VFX #SideFX_Houdini #Vex #Unity_Game_Engine
Parents in the Loop

June 2025 - June 2025 PERSONAL · TEAM OF 5

2nd Place and Popular Choice winner at Hack4Impact NYC 2025. An AI-powered interface for school systems to bridge knowledge and language barriers for immigrant parents.

#Year2025 #hackathon #honors #social_impact #entrepreneurship #web #backend #image_processing #natural_language_processing #artificial_intelligence #Django #Loveable_AI #Gemini_AI #Model_Context_Protocol
PAPAYA - USD Asset Browser

March 2025 - April 2025 PERSONAL · TEAM OF 14

A Django, MySQL, and Amazon S3-backed web database, search engine, and DCC connector for OpenUSD 3D assets.

#Year2025 #web #datasets #cloud_services #backend #RESTful #Python #Django #OpenUSD #MySQL #Amazon_S3 #AstroJS #RestAPI
Neural for USD

January 2025 - May 2025 PERSONAL · SOLO

A comprehensive interface to solve data collection for Neural Radiance Fields and Novel View Synthesis for the Pixar OpenUSD framework.

#Year2025 #neural_rendering #NeRF #neural_radiance_fields #artificial_intelligence #novel_view_synthesis #QT #CMake #C++ #Python #NumPy #PyTorch #MatPlotLib #OpenUSD #Hydra
GLSL Pathtracer

January 2025 - March 2025 SCHOOL · SOLO

A GLSL-based application to showcase different rendering methods associated with the Monte Carlo Light Transport algorithm.

#Year2025 #rendering #pathtracing #raytracing #lighting #C++ #GLSL #QT #OpenGL