Derek Cheung
Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Americas
Biography
Derek Cheung is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Autodesk Research, where he leads projects related to content creation workflows for film, television, and video games. He holds an MSc. in Computer Science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he studied visual blending in generative models. His previous experience includes work in ML explainability, public broadcasting, and video games.
Publications
2026
Motion Generation: A Survey of Generative Approaches and BenchmarksThis research survey presents a structured review of recent motion…
2025
A Scalable Attention-Based Approach for Image-to-3D Texture MappingA fast transformer-based method that generates 3D textures from a…
2024
Wavelet Latent Diffusion: Billion-Parameter 3D Generative Model with Compact Wavelet EncodingsAddressing a common limitation of generative AI models, WaLa encodes…