Assistant Professor
Canada Research Chair in
Computer Graphics
Computer Graphics
CV/Résumé (updated 2018-10-13)
Teaching
Fall 2021
CMPT361: Intro to Visual Computing
Spring 2021
CMPT700: Research Methods and Technical Writing
Fall 2019 & Fall 2020
CMPT757: Frontiers of Visual Computing
Summer 2015 (Stanford)
CS148: Intro to Comp. Graphics & Imaging
Students & Visitors
Reza Asad
Supriya Pandhre
Madhawa Vidanapathirana
Jiaqi Tan
Alumni
Shivansh Patel (next: PhD at UIUC)
Changan Chen (next: PhD at UT Austin)
News
July 2021
Congratulations to Madhawa for defending his MSc thesis! Madhawa is starting his PhD in the fall with a prestigious graduate dean's entrance scholarship.
Paper on communication between embodied AI agents accepted to ICCV 2021. Congratulations to Shivansh, Saim, and Unnat!
Paper on communication between embodied AI agents accepted to ICCV 2021. Congratulations to Shivansh, Saim, and Unnat!
June 2021
Habitat 2.0 released! Check it out at aihabitat.org.
May 2021
Helping to organize three workshops at CVPR 2021: ScanNet Indoor Scene Understanding Challenge, Multi-Object Navigation Challenge at the Embodied AI Workshop, Learning to Generate 3D Shapes and Scenes.
Mar 2021
Three papers accepted to CVPR 2021. Congratulations to Madhawa, Qirui, Jiaqi, and Lewis.
Jan 2021
Large Batch Simulation for Deep Reinforcement Learning accepted to ICLR 2021.
Dec 2020
Honored to be appointed as Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Computer Graphics.
Serving as co-program chair for Graphics Interface 2021.
Oct 2020
One paper accepted at NeurIPS 2020 and one paper at 3DV 2020.
Jul 2020
Keynote talk on 3D graphics system challenges for simulation at High-performance Graphics 2020.
ScanNet receives the SGP 2020 dataset award.
Two papers accepted at IROS 2020.
Jun 2020
Co-organizing three workshops at CVPR 2020: Learning 3D Generative Models, Embodied AI Workshop, ScanNet Indoor Scene Understanding Challenge.
Apr 2020
DD-PPO paper accepted at ICLR 2020.
Nov 2019
AI Habitat nominated for best paper award at ICCV 2019.
Mar 2019
Co-organizing three workshops at CVPR 2019: Habitat Challenge, 3D Scene Generation, and ScanNet Indoor Scene Understanding.
Mar 2019
Two papers accepted to CVPR 2019 and one paper at SIGGRAPH 2019.
Feb 2019
Released the AI Habitat platform.
Jan 2019
Started at SFU!
Jul 2018
Joined FAIR Menlo Park as a visiting researcher.
May 2018
Co-organizing ECCV 2018 workshop on Visual Learning and Embodied Agents in Simulation Environments.
Mar 2018
New paper on deep convolutional scene synthesis accepted to SIGGRAPH 2018.
Feb 2018
State of the art report accepted to Eurographics 2018 + one paper accepted to CVPR 2018.
Sep 2017
Two papers accepted to 3DV 2017.
Jul 2017
I was an instructor at the Shenzhen University VCC 2017 Summer School.
Mar 2017
Three papers accepted to CVPR 2017.
Dec 2016
Co-organized the 'Directions in Shape Analysis towards Functionality' course at SIGGRAPH Asia 2016.
Sep 2016
Graduated from Stanford and moved to Princeton.