Chen Gao

Research Scientist

Employment

Waymo
Senior Research Scientist, 4D reconstruction and generation
Apr 2026 - Present
Meta Reality Labs
Research Scientist, 4D reconstruction for Hyperscape
May 2022 - Mar 2026
Google VisCam Team, Host: Miki Rubinstein
Research Intern, Panoramic video
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Google Camera Algorithm Team, Host: YiChang Shih
Research Intern, Portrait NeRF
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Facebook Computational Photography Team, Host: Johannes Kopf
Research Intern, Video completion
May 2019 - Aug 2019

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
2018 - 2022
Advisor: Jia-Bin Huang
M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
2015 - 2017
Advisor: Raj Rao Nadakuditi
B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oregon State University
2013 - 2015
Minor in Computer Science

Product Impact

Hyperscape
2023 - 2026
Meta Reality Labs, Immersive digital replicas of real-world.

Publications

[17]
AniGS: Bridging Rendering and Diffusion Prior for 3D Scene Animation
arXiv, 2026
Y.-C. Cheng, Chen Gao, C. Chen, T. Li, R. Shah, A. Saraf, C. Kim, L. Gui, A. Schwing, J. Kopf, H.-Y. Tseng
[16]
Textured Gaussians for Enhanced 3D Scene Appearance Modeling
CVPR, 2025
B. Chao, H.-Y. Tseng, L. Porzi, Chen Gao, T. Li, Q. Li, A. Saraf, J.-B. Huang, J. Kopf, G. Wetzstein, C. Kim
[15]
Reflection-Aware Neural Radiance Fields
SIGGRAPH Asia, 2024
Chen Gao, Y. Wang, C. Kim, J.-B. Huang, J. Kopf
[14]
Modeling Ambient Scene Dynamics for Free-view Synthesis
SIGGRAPH, 2024
M.-L. Shih, J.-B. Huang, C. Kim, R. Shah, J. Kopf, Chen Gao
[13]
SpecNeRF: Gaussian Directional Encoding for Specular Reflections
CVPR, 2024
L. Ma, V. Agrawal, H. Turki, C. Kim, Chen Gao, P. V. Sander, M. Zollhöfer, C. Richardt
[12]
OmnimatteRF: Robust Omnimatte with 3D Background Modeling
ICCV, 2023
G. Lin, Chen Gao, J.-B. Huang, C. Kim, Y. Wang, M. Zwicker, A. Saraf
[11]
Progressively Optimized Local Radiance Fields for Robust View Synthesis
CVPR, 2023
A. Meuleman, Y.-L. Liu, Chen Gao, J.-B. Huang, C. Kim, M. H. Kim, J. Kopf
[10]
Robust Dynamic Radiance Fields
CVPR, 2023
Y.-L. Liu, Chen Gao, A. Meuleman, H.-Y. Tseng, A. Saraf, C. Kim, Y.-Y. Chuang, J. Kopf, J.-B. Huang
[9]
Dynamic View Synthesis from Dynamic Monocular Video
ICCV, 2021
Chen Gao, A. Saraf, J. Kopf, J.-B. Huang
[8]
Portrait Neural Radiance Fields from a Single Image
arXiv, 2020
Chen Gao, Y. Shih, W.-S. Lai, C.-K. Liang, J.-B. Huang
[7]
Flow-edge Guided Video Completion
ECCV, 2020
Chen Gao, A. Saraf, J.-B. Huang, J. Kopf
[6]
DRG: Dual Relation Graph for Human-Object Interaction Detection
ECCV, 2020
Chen Gao, J. Xu, Y. Zou, J.-B. Huang
[5]
NAS-DIP: Learning Deep Image Prior with Neural Architecture Search
ECCV, 2020
Y.-C. Chen*, Chen Gao*, E. Robb, J.-B. Huang
[4]
Why Can't I Dance in the Mall? Learning to Mitigate Scene Bias in Action Recognition
NeurIPS, 2019
J. Choi, Chen Gao, J. Messou, J.-B. Huang
[3]
Panoramic Robust PCA for Foreground-Background Separation on Noisy, Free-Motion Camera Video
TCI, 2019
Chen Gao*, B. E. Moore*, R. R. Nadakuditi
[2]
iCAN: Instance-Centric Attention Network for Human-Object Interaction Detection
BMVC, 2018
Chen Gao, Y. Zou, J.-B. Huang
[1]
Augmented Robust PCA for Foreground-background Separation on Noisy, Moving Camera Video
GlobalSIP, 2017
Chen Gao, B. E. Moore, R. R. Nadakuditi