Dr. Yanpei Cao

Yanpei Cao is the Chief Scientist and Co-founder of VAST (Tripo AI), where he leads research on 3D foundation models and generative AI for interactive content creation. He holds a PhD in Computer Graphics from Tsinghua University and previously served as Principal Researcher at Tencent and CTO of Owlii, a startup focused on 4D reconstruction and 3D avatars. His team has had all six submissions accepted to CVPR 2024, and Tripo has been recognized by a16z as a key player in the 3D generation space.