Chen Gao | Research Scientist
Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.
1 Peter 5: 6-7
I am a Research Scientist at Meta working on high-fidelity 3D/4D reconstruction (Hyperscape) and generative 3D AI. I received my PhD from Virginia Tech supervised by Jia-Bin Huang. I received my MSc from University of Michigan and my BSc from Oregon State University.
NEWS
[2025/09]
Mark Zuckerberg just unveiled our team’s Hyperscape at Meta Connect 2025!
[2025/02]
Our paper on textured Gaussians is accepted to CVPR 2025.
[2024/07]
Our paper on reflection-aware NeRF is accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.
Textured Gaussians for Enhanced 3D Scene Appearance Modeling
Brian Chao, Hung-Yu Tseng, Lorenzo Porzi, , Tuotuo Li, Qinbo Li, Ayush Saraf, Jia-Bin Huang, Johannes Kopf, Gordon Wetzstein, Changil Kim
CVPR, 2025
Reflection-Aware Neural Radiance Fields
Chen Gao, Yipeng Wang, Changil Kim, Jia-Bin Huang, Johannes Kopf
SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024
Modeling Ambient Scene Dynamics for Free-view Synthesis
Meng-Li Shih, Jia-Bin Huang, Changil Kim, Rajvi Shah, Johannes Kopf, Chen Gao
SIGGRAPH, 2024
OmnimatteRF: Robust Omnimatte with 3D Background Modeling
Geng Lin, Chen Gao, Jia-Bin Huang, Changil Kim, Yipeng Wang, Matthias Zwicker, Ayush Saraf
ICCV, 2023
Progressively Optimized Local Radiance Fields for Robust View Synthesis
Andreas Meuleman, Yu-Lun Liu, Chen Gao, Jia-Bin Huang, Changil Kim, Min H. Kim, Johannes Kopf
CVPR, 2023
Robust Dynamic Radiance Fields
Yu-Lun Liu, Chen Gao, Andreas Meuleman, Hung-Yu Tseng, Ayush Saraf, Changil Kim, Yung-Yu Chuang, Johannes Kopf, Jia-Bin Huang
CVPR, 2023
Dynamic View Synthesis from Dynamic Monocular Video
Chen Gao, Ayush Saraf, Johannes Kopf, Jia-Bin Huang
ICCV, 2021
Portrait Neural Radiance Fields from a Single Image
Chen Gao, Yichang Shih, Wei-Sheng Lai, Chia-Kai Liang, Jia-Bin Huang
arXiv, 2020
Flow-edge Guided Video Completion
Chen Gao, Ayush Saraf, Jia-Bin Huang, Johannes Kopf
ECCV, 2020
DRG: Dual Relation Graph for Human-Object Interaction Detection
Chen Gao, Jiarui Xu, Yuliang Zou, Jia-Bin Huang
ECCV, 2020
EDUCATION
Virginia Tech Doctor of Philosophy
University of Michigan Master of Science
Oregon State University Bachelor of Science
INDUSTRY
Research Scientist 2022 – Present
Research Intern Summer 2021
Research Intern Summer 2020
Research Intern Summer 2019
MISC
Road Trip
I enjoy road-trip as it's a great way to experience local customs. The spectacular landscape reminds me of how great our Creator is. One of my dreams is to visit all the 59 national parks in the US. I have visited 22 national parks already and am looking forward to my next journey. Here is a list of the national parks I've visited
- Arches - Utah
- Bryce Canyon - Utah (Favourite!)
- Canyonlands - Utah
- Capitol Reef - Utah
- Crater Lake - Oregon
- Everglades - Florida
- Glacier National Park - Montana
- Grand Canyon - Arizona
- Grand Teton - Wyoming
- Great Sand Dunes - Colorado
- Great Smoky Mountains - North Carolina, Tennessee
- Joshua Tree - California
- Kings Canyon - California
- Mesa Verde - Colorado
- Mount Rainier - Washington
- North Cascades - Washington
- Olympic - Washington
- Sequoia - California
- Shenandoah - Virginia
- Yellowstone - Wyoming, Montana, Idaho
- Yosemite - California
- Zion - Utah
Painting
I spent 6 years learning figure sketch, traditional Chinese painting , and Gongbi , specialized in Bird-and-flower painting . Painting has always been a way for me to slow down and find inner calm. These days, I enjoy drawing anime characters as a quiet counterbalance to research, reconnecting with the joy of drawing I had as a child. You can find some of them here.
Big fan of Rubik's Cube
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Activities
I regularly engage in hiking, paddleboarding, and snowboarding. If you're in Seattle and enjoy outdoor activities, feel free to contact me.