Software Developer & Gamer
My name is HongFei Huang. I'm a software engineer focused on XR and computer graphics, with a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
When I first tried Half-Life: Alyx, I was blown away by how impressive and wild its interactions were. Since then, I've been passionate about creating fun stuff in VR, and it got me into computer graphics. I believe VR and CG together will fundamentally change the entertainment industry one day.
Most recently I built OpenUSD tools in C++ and Python at SideFX. For my thesis, I made a mixed-reality app for Meta Quest 3 where you build and handle geometric algebra objects with your hands.
Download ResumeSep 2025 – Apr 2026
Toronto, ON
Sep 2024 – Aug 2025
Waterloo, ON
Sep 2023 – Dec 2023
Kanata, ON
Jan 2023 – Apr 2023
Waterloo, ON
Jan 2022 – Apr 2022
Waterloo, ON
Sep 2024 – Aug 2026
Waterloo, ON
Thesis: VR_GAViewer: Immersive Visualisation and Direct Manipulation of the Conformal Model in Virtual Reality
Sep 2019 – Apr 2024
Waterloo, ON
A mixed-reality app for Meta Quest 3 that lets you build conformal geometric algebra objects with your hands or a typed console, then walk around them. It is meant as a teaching tool for people learning geometric algebra.
Source on GitHubAn interactive OpenGL fracture simulation using pre-fractured 3D models. A Surface Area Heuristic Bounding Volume Hierarchy (SAH-BVH) handles Ray-AABB and AABB-AABB collision detection and sustains 170+ FPS with complex inputs.
Source on GitHub
A custom ray tracer in C++ that renders triangle-mesh 3D scenes with three materials (Lambertian, metal, glass), using recursive ray tracing for reflections and refractions.
An LLM agent harness that turns receipt photos into a filled reimbursement form and a Gmail draft. A vision LLM and local OCR read each photo, conflicts go to a Claude Code judge, and deterministic amount and date checks catch errors both models make.
ESP32 firmware for a 5-person engineering capstone: stepper-driven rail positioning, five solenoid valves, and an ultrasonic safety interlock that pauses the rail when a hand reaches in. Poured 30–40 drinks at the final showcase.
A 4-stage pipelined RISC-V CPU in Verilog with adjustable instruction and data memory. It runs basic programs such as bubble sort on the board.
A small OS with binary-tree memory allocation, an earliest-deadline-first (EDF) scheduler, context switching between tasks, and interrupt-driven user input over UART.
Fetches image pieces from servers with the cURL API and joins them using multiple threads, which cut the running time by 35%.
Passionate about VR and mixed reality. Built hand-tracked apps on Meta Quest 3 with OpenXR, including VR GAViewer and a gesture-recognition pipeline.
Skilled in Unity and C#, especially for XR. Shipped my thesis app on Meta Quest 3 and prepared ML models for Unity Barracuda.
Rasterization, ray tracing and physics-based animation with OpenGL, plus OpenUSD scene tooling from my time at SideFX.
My main language, from graphics projects to production tools. Committed to quality and performance. Also comfortable in C#, C and Python.
Embedded and kernel-level work in C on Linux and RTOS: test tooling at Huawei, a pipelined RISC-V CPU and a kernel task scheduler.
PyTorch and ONNX for training and exporting models, and LLM agent workflows built with Claude Code and vision models.