About

I’m a Staff AI Research Scientist at Intel Labs working on 3D reconstruction/generation and video generation. I collaborate across research and product teams, mentor students, and publish at venues including CVPR, ICML, WACV, and ICRA.

Education
  • Ph.D., Computer Science — UC San Diego
  • M.S., Computer Science — UC San Diego
  • B.Sc., Computer Science — University of British Columbia
Research Interests
  • 3D representations for generation and reconstruction
  • Video diffusion and controllable video editing
  • Neural radiance fields & graphics primitives
  • Perception for robotics

Publications

Career Timeline

Staff AI Research Scientist — Intel Labs
Nov 2021 – Present · San Diego, CA
Research Intern — Google Research
Jun 2021 – Aug 2021
Research Intern — Intel Labs
Jan 2020 – Mar 2021
Research Intern — Waymo
Jun 2019 – Sep 2019
Applied Scientist Intern — Amazon (AWS Rekognition)
Jul 2018 – Oct 2018
Research Associate — Qualcomm
May 2017 – Jul 2017
Software Engineering Intern — Google ATAP (Project Tango)
2014 – 2015
Software Engineering Intern — hiDOF
May 2014 – Aug 2014

Talks & Activities

  • CVPR 2024 — VO/CV Workshop talk on BAA‑NGP.
  • CVPR 2020 — DL Foundations of Geometric Shape Modeling talk on View‑centered recognition.
  • Organizer/Host — DL for Geometric Computing Workshop, CVPR 2024.
  • MIT Summer Geometry Initiative — Mentor, 2023–2025.
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