Dolphin NIE

😊About Me

Welcome to my personal website. My name is Yuhe NIE. I was born in Shenzhen, China.

I would be happy if you could call me Dolphin🐬!

I got my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from the Southern University of Science and Technology. I am currently pursuing my master’s degree in Integrated Design & Media at New York University. At present, I am studying and researching Procedural Content Generation (PCG) and Game Artificial Intelligence in the Game Innovation Lab, under the supervision of Professor Julian Togelius in the Computer Science Department of New York University. I am also taking cross cross-disciplinary courses ranged from computer science 💻, game development 🎮, digital media 🕹️ and other related courses. I’m also actively self-learning game development. I’ve developed a lot of games using Unity, Unreal Engine, and Renpy, which you can find on my Itch games website.

I love watching Japanese animations and comics🎏 (Recently, I also like Chinese animations). I have watched animations for more than 15 years! They support me a lot. If you are an university student, I sincerely recommend The Tatami Galaxy and Run with the Wind to you, in addition to that, I usually recommend From the New World, Made in Abyss, Land of the Lustrous, and Attack on Titian. I also like NARUTO, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Mo Dao Zu Shi. During my spare time, I also like design👩‍💻, painting🎨, singing🎤 and playing table tennis🏓.

I am engaged in technology that allows people to create all kinds of interesting things in a virtual world. There are so many things people can do in the virtual world that I’m exploring little by little… 🤔

📧Contact Me

yn2273@nyu.edu

🏫Education Background

University Education Major Time GPA
New York University (United States) Master Integrated Design & Media 2023.9 - 2025.6 4.00/4.00
Southern University of Science and Technology (China) Undergraduate Computer Science and Technology 2019.9 - 2023.6 3.81/4.00
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) Exchange Undergraduate Computer Science 2022.8-2022.12 4.83/5.00
Shenzhen Middle School (China) Highschool Science 2016.9 - 2019.6 NA

If you’re wondering what exactly I learned:

Undergraduate Master Some self-learning…
https://github.com/NYH-Dolphin/SUSTech-Course-Info https://github.com/NYH-Dolphin/NYU-Course-Info https://github.com/NYH-Dolphin/GAMES-Course-Info
Computer Programming Introduction, Data Structure and Algorithm Analysis, Object-oriented Design and Analysis, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture… Game Design, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence for Games, Deep Learning for Media, Camera and Capture, Ideation and Prototyping… Computer Graphic GAMES 101, Game Feel, Unity Shader Introduction, Game Engine Development, Multi-modal Machine Learning, UE Network Programming…

👩‍💻Working Experience

Tencent | Timi Studio Group | J6 Studio | Game Client Development (Intern)

Shanghai | May 2024 (About to Start~)

  • ✨ about to begin, looking forward to~’

NYU | Tandon School of Engineering | IDBE Diversity Inclusion Organization | 2D Game Front-end Engineer

Brooklyn, NY | Dec 2023 - May 2024

  • Join as a game developer to create a visual novel game for educational and research usage
  • Responsible for the game client UI, logic, art assets, transition, animation programming, and design by using the Renpy Game Engine
  • Collaborate remotely with the art and design team to conduct asset conventions to facilitate agile development

NetEase Games | Strategic Investment for VR/AR | Mixed Reality Developer (Internship)

Guangzhou | Feb 2022 - Jun 2022

  • Joined as a software developer to maintain and deploy two Mixed Reality shooting games by using Unity
  • Fixed the UI, score, and network port bugs for existing game
  • Initiated a new Mixed Reality archer game prototype, used existing assets to build a game for bird shooting
  • Participated as an interviewer in the intern recruitment process and successfully recommended one candidate as a new intern

👩‍🎓Research Experience

Nie, Y., Zheng, S., Zhuang, Z., & Togelius, J. (2024). Nested Wave Function Collapse Enables Large-Scale Content Generation. IEEE Transactions on Games.

Y. Nie, S. Zheng, Z. Zhuang and X. Song, “Extend Wave Function Collapse Algorithm to Large-Scale Content Generation,” 2023 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), Boston, MA, USA, 2023, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/CoG57401.2023.10333214.

Mu, R., Nie, Y., Cao, K., You, R., Wei, Y., & Tong, X. (2023). Pilgrimage to Pureland: Art, Perception and the Wutai Mural VR Reconstruction. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1-17.

NYU | Tandon School of Engineering | Game Innovation Lab | Researcher

Brooklyn, NY | Sep 2023 - Till Now

  • Supervisor: Julian Togelius
  • Research and study on procedural content generation and artificial intelligence for game
  • One first-author paper “N-WFC” optimizes the time complexity for the Wave Function Collapse algorithm from exponential level to polynomial level, was accepted by both IEEE CoG and IEEE ToG and won the CoG 2023 Best Paper Award

DKU| DKU HCI Lab | Researcher

Virtual | May 2022 - Feb 2023

  • Supervisor: Xin Tong
  • Researched on Human-Computer Interaction for Cultural Relics in Virtual Reality
  • Joined as the lead programmer for a research project, conducted in-person research experiments
  • Used Unity and Oculus Quest to build a VR research project that teaches people about Dunhuang Mural and its related stories
  • One second-author paper, “Pilgrimage to Pureland” has been accepted to IJHCI 2023

🚩Project Experience

NYU | Game Design | The Escape Plan | Lead Programmer

Brooklyn, NY | September 2023 - December 2023

  • Joined as the main developer to developed an isometric fast-paced one-hit game
  • Responsible for Unity client development, mainly responsible for character control, weapons and upgraded systems, and decoupling serialized assets for rapid development and integration
  • Concurrently worked on art design, mainly implemented Unity 2/3D URP lighting and most of the environment art assets in the game

SUSTech | Object-oriented Design and Analysis | SUSTech Pokémon | Game Client Development

Shenzhen | Sep 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Developed an online turn-based RPG Pokemon mobile game as the leader of a team of four
  • Responsible for Unity client development, mainly responsible for UI, narrative system and turn-based combat system of client side
  • Common network protocol with back-end developers, communication using HTTP Websockets, double-ended logic for PVE and PVP combat system

🕵️‍♂️Teaching Experience

New York University | Department of Computer Science | CSUY/GY Game Design | Teaching Assistant

Brooklyn, NY | Jan 2024 - May 2024

  • Offered suggestions for each prototype and final project each week
  • Prepared course-related reference materials
  • Joined as a lecturer at Lecture6-Generative AI
  • Helped organize the documentation of students’ scores and other related information
  • Optimize automated course analysis and scoring toolbox based on Python

💻Skills

  • Languages: Mandarin (Native), English (IELTS 7), Japanese (Studying…)
  • Programming Language: C#, Python, C++, Java, SQL, (GLSL/HLSL, HTML/CSS)
  • Game Engine: Unity3D, Unreal, Renpy, UEFN
  • IDE: JetBrain (Rider, PyCharm, IntelliJ), Visual Studio Code, Jupyter Notebook
  • Others: Git, Markdown, LaTeX(Overleaf), Pytorch, Linux, Figma

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