Jun Gao

I am currently a senior research scientist at NVIDIA. I will join the University of Michigan in the EECS department as an assistant professor in Fall 2025. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, advised by Prof. Sanja Fidler.

My research stays at the intersection of 3D computer vision, computer graphics and generative models. I am interested in developing controllable generative AI models to create photorealitic, diverse and interactive virtual environments.

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My research contributes to generative AI by bridging 3D representations from computer graphics with 3D computer vision, and learning to exploit structures from 2D and 3D data. The representations and algorithms I developed are instrumental in the realization of real-world products, including text-to-3D generation at NVIDIA Picasso and 2D image annotation at Toronto Annotation Suite. My research has also been featured at NVIDIA GTC, including image-to-3D generation at GANVerse3D, and 3D asset harvesting at Neural DriveSim.

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