Chuan Yan
About Me
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, working with Maneesh Agrawala in the Brown Institute for Media Innovation. My research focuses on human vision, human-AI collaboration, and creative design. I obtained my Ph.D. from George Mason University, advised by Yotam Gingold, and my Bachelor’s in Communication Technology from Southwest Jiaotong University.
📢 I am on the job market, seeking research scientist positions in industry and faculty positions (2026–2027). If my work aligns with your team, I’d love to hear from you: chuanyan [at] stanford.edu
Research Interests
- Human Vision: Visual perception, perceptual studies for graphics and design
- Human-AI Collaboration: AI-assisted creative tools, interactive systems for professionals
- Creative Design: Sketch processing, vector graphics, digital illustration
News
- [Jun. 2026] Our project Grammar of Hatching: Synthesizing Tonal Art Maps from Natural Language received a 2026-2027 MAGIC Grant from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation — my second MAGIC Grant. The project lets artists produce real-time pen-and-ink 3D renderings by describing a texture in plain language. This is a collaboration with Mia Tang.
- [Jun. 2025] Our project HiFiSketch, a tool that transforms hand-drawn sketches into fully editable digital artwork, received a 2025-2026 Magic Grant from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation. This is a collaboration with Lvmin Zhang.
- [Apr. 2025] Our paper Instance Segmentation of Scene Sketches Using Natural Image Priors was accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025. This is a collaboration with Mia Tang, Yael Vinker, Lvmin Zhang and Maneesh Agrawala.
- [Apr. 2025] Our paper Generating Past and Future in Digital Painting Processes was accepted to SIGGRAPH 2025 and will appear in a special issue of TOG. This is a collaboration with Lvmin Zhang, Yuwei Guo, Jinbo Xing and Maneesh Agrawala.
Earlier news…
- [Aug. 2024] I joined Prof. Maneesh Agrawala’s group as a Post-doc.
- [Aug. 2024] Passed my final defense on August 7, 2024, now I’m Dr. Yan! o(*￣▽￣*)ブ
- [Aug. 2024] Our paper ShadowMagic: Designing Human-AI Collaborative Support for Comic Professionals’ Shadowing was accepted to UIST 2024. This is a collaboration with Amrita Ganguly, John Joon Young Chung, Tong Steven Sun, Yoon Kiheon, Yotam Gingold and Sungsoo Ray Hong.
- [May. 2024] Our paper Deep Sketch Vectorization via Implicit Surface Extraction was accepted to SIGGRAPH North America 2024 and will appear in a special issue of TOG. This is a collaboration with Deepali Aneja, Matthew Fisher, Edgar Simo-Serra and Yotam Gingold.
Publications
Selected Publications
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SIGGRAPH 2025
ACM Transactions on Graphics -
SIGGRAPH 2025
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH -
SIGGRAPH 2024
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 43(4) -
UIST 2024
The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) -
CHI 2022
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2022 -
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020
Other Publications
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arXiv 2025
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IVC 2025
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ICMLCA 2025
2025 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computer Application (ICMLCA) -
ICASSP 2025
ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) -
PR 2024
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AS 2024
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VAMR 2024
Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality -
ITAI 2024
Global Attention-Guided Dual-Domain Point Cloud Feature Learning for Classification and SegmentationIEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
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