Jun Gao

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

My research stays at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics and generative models. I am interested in developing generative world models that are controllable, consistent, interpretable and scalable for realistic interactions with humans and autonomous agents.

Prospective students: I am actively looking for motivated and talented students! If you are interested in joining my group, please read this.

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  • Pro Bono: I commit 1-2 hours per week to host pro bono office hours and provide guidance and mentorship for students, especially people from underrepresented groups. Please check here for more details.
  • Jan. 2026: Two papers are accepted to ICLR 2026.
  • Jan. 2026: I will serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026 and CVPR 2026.
  • Jun. 2025: Two papers are accepted to ICCV 2025.
  • Jun. 2025: Our paper Difix3D+ is a CVPR 2025 Best Paper Award Candidate.
  • Mar. 2025: Three papers are accepted to CVPR 2025. Two Orals and one Highlight.
  • Mar. 2025: I will serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025.
  • Jul. 2024: One paper is accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.
  • Jul. 2024: One paper is accepted to ECCV 2024.
  • May 2024: I will serve as an Area Chair for 3DV 2025.
  • May 2024: I will serve as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024.
  • Mar. 2024: I will serve on the program committee for SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.
  • Dec. 2023: Our paper received the Best Paper Award at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023.


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    Professional Service
    Program Committee: SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.

    Area Chair: NeurIPS 2023-2026. CVPR 2026. 3DV 2025-2026.

    Conference Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia.


    Employment
    Assistant Professor at University of Michigan Aug. 2025 - Present

    Research scientist at NVIDIA Nov. 2019 - Present

    Research intern at NVIDIA Oct. 2018 - Nov. 2019

    Research intern at Microsoft Research, Asia Sep. 2017 - Jun. 2018


    Mentored Students/Interns
    Siyi Chen (PhD, UMich, 2026-now)

    Siyuan Bian (PhD, UMich, 2025-now)

    Zhaoning Wang (PhD, UMich, 2025-now)

    Xuanchi Ren (PhD, CS UofT, 2024-now)

    Tianchang Shen (PhD, CS UofT, 2019-now)

    Weiwei Sun (PhD, CS UBC, 2022)

    Zian Wang (PhD, CS UofT, 2021)

    Gary Leung (MSc, CS UofT, 2020)

    Yuxuan Zhang (Undergrad, CS UWaterloo, 2020)

    Yinan Zhang (Undergrad, CS UWaterloo, 2019)

    Jinchen Xuan (Undergrad, CS PKU, 2019)


    Pro Bono Office Hours
    I always see the information asymmetry between junior students and senior students on problems related to research topics/directions, future career, failure and excitement in research. This problem is more severe for people from underrepresented groups.

    Following Krishna, Wei-Chiu and Shangzhe, I commit 1-2 hours per week (mostly on Sunday) to host pro bono office hours and provide guidance, suggestions or mentorship, please fill this form if you are interested.


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