Hi, I’m Ethan, founder and CEO of Meshy AI. Before founding Meshy, I did my Ph.D. in computer science (MIT CSAIL), advised by Frédo Durand and Bill Freeman.

We are hiring! Meshy is the leading generative AI product for 3D. We’re actively hiring exceptional researchers and engineers in computer graphics, AI, and high-performance systems (compilers and GPU performance engineering) across Asia and North America—for both full-time roles and internships. If you’re interested, please visit our career site to explore open roles, or send your resume directly to careers@meshy.ai.

I graduated with honor from Tsinghua University (Yao class) in July 2017. I worked on deep learning and computer vision, during my internship with Stephen Lin at Microsoft Research Asia. My undergrad thesis is on automatic (differentiable) photo post-processing using reinforcement learning & GANs (TOG & SIGGRAPH 2018). I completed my master thesis (The ChainQueen Differentiable Physical Simulator) with Wojciech Matusik in November 2018. My research has been partly supported by an Edwin Webster fellowship, a Snap Research fellowship, an Adobe Research fellowship, a Facebook Research fellowship, and a GPU gift from NVIDIA.

import taichi as ti

Update March 2021: I completed my Ph.D. thesis defense :-)

Update July 2022: The Taichi thesis is awarded MIT EECS 2022 George M. Sprowls Thesis Award and SIGGRAPH 2022 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention.

Meshy news:

• (Sept 2025) We dropped the Meshy 6 Preview model that delivers sculpting-level details.

Taichi news:

• ETH Zurich adopted Taichi to teach physically-based simulation in fall 2021! The vast majority of the students used the Taichi for their final projects. [Read the full story].
• Made a video collection of recent Taichi community contributions.
• Check out Taichi Voxel Challenge with 100+ submissions.
• Taichi v1.7.4 is released! Try the latest version:

pip install --upgrade taichi

Email: yuanmhu at gmail dot com