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Guocheng G. Qian

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Research Scientist

Snap Research

Palo Alto, CA, United States

Guocheng Gordon Qian

Welcome! I am a research scientist at Snap Research Creative Vision team, working on Generative AI. I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from KAUST, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Bernard Ghanem. Prior to that, I received my B.Eng degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China with the university’s highest undergraduate honor. My primary research interests lie in computer vision and generative models. I have authored 19 top-tier conference and journal papers, including one first-authored work with over 1,000 citations and three first-authored works with over 300 citations each. In total, my publications have received over 3000 citations, and my current h-index is 19. My representative work includes PointNeXt (NeurIPS, >1000 cites, >900 GitHub stars), Magic123 (ICLR, >400 cites, >1.6K GitHub stars) and Omni-ID (CVPR'25, products integrated into Snapchat). I also serve as area chair for ICLR starting from 2025.
If you are interested in working in image/video generative models with me, please reach out at guocheng.qian [at] outlook.com

Education

Interests

News

  • 2025/09: Corresponding authored paper SR-Training accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
  • 2025/07: ComposeMe is shipped to Snapchat AI Lens to make personalized generation follow expression prompts.
  • 2025/07: First-authored paper ComposeMe is accepted to Siggraph Asia 2025.
  • 2025/05: ThinkDiff is accepted to ICML 2025!
  • 2025/05: Omni-ID is shipped to Snapchat production pipeline to support Look Like Me.
  • 2025/02: 3 paper accepted to CVPR 2025 including one first-authored paper Omni-ID , and two mentored internship projects WonderLand and AC3D .
  • 2025/01: VD3D is accepted to ICLR 2025.
  • 2024/01: First-authored paper Magic123 is accepted to ICLR 2024.
  • 2023/12: I join Snap Inc. as a research scientist working on personalized generation with Kfir Aberman.
  • 2023/10: First-authored paper Pix4Point is accepted to 3DV 2024.
  • 2023/06: ZeroSeg gets accepted to ICCV.
  • 2023/05: I join Snap Inc. as a research scientist intern working on text/image-to-3D.
  • 2022/11: One paper gets accepted to Advanced Science (IF 2021: 17.52).
  • 2022/10: First-authored paper PointNeXt gets accepted by NeurIPS'22.
  • 2022/08: I joined On Device AI team under XRTech in Meta as an AI research scientist intern.
  • 2022/06: First-authored paper TENet gets accepted to ICCP'22.
  • 2022/04: First-authored Paper TNAS gets accepted to CVPR'22 workshop.
  • 2021/10 : First-authored paper ASSANet gets accepted to NeurIPS'21 as a spotlight paper.
  • 2021/03 : Co-first authored paper DeepGCNs gets accepted to journal TPAMI'21 .
  • 2021/03 : First authored paper PU-GCN gets accepted to CVPR'21
  • 2020/12 : I graduated as a Master in Computer Science!
  • 2020/03 : 1 Co-first authored paper SGAS (Sequential Greedy Architecture Search) gets accepted to CVPR’20.
  • 2020/01 : I serve as Teaching Assistant for course: CS390D Deep Learning (2020 Spring)
  • 2018/07 : I graduated from Xi’an Jiaotong University with the highest undergraduate honor (with GPA 3.9/4.3).
  • 2018/06 : I joined Sensetime Research as a research scientist intern, supervised by Jimmy S. Ren .

Experience

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Snap Research
Research Scientist
Snap Research
Dec 2023 – Present
Palo Alto, USA
Snap Research
Research Scientist Intern
Snap Research
May 2023 – Sep 2023
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Meta Reality Lab
AI Research Scientist Intern
Meta Reality Lab
Aug 2022 – Jan 2023
San Jose, CA, USA
Microsoft Research Aisa
Remote Intern
Microsoft Research Aisa
Dec 2021 – May 2022
remote
Megvii Research
Research Intern
Megvii Research
Jun 2020 – Dec 2021
Remote
SenseTime Research
Computer Vision Research Intern
SenseTime Research
Jul 2018 – May 2019
Shenzhen, China

Awards

  • 2022/05 KAUST: CEMSE Dean’s List Award (year 21/22), awarded to Top 20%.
  • 2021/12 KAUST: CEMSE Research Excellence Award (year 21/22), awarded to less than 12 students.
  • 2019/06 KAUST: KAUST Fellowship for MS and PhD Studies, fellowship covering full tuition support, monthly living allowance, housing, and medical coverage.
  • 2017/12 Xi’an Jiaotong University: Outstanding Undergraduate, highest undergraduate honor awarded to 10 selected undergraduates.
  • 2017/10 Ministry of Education, China: National First Class Scholarship, highest scholarship awarded to top 1% undergraduates.

Service

  • Area Chair: ICLR 2026.
  • Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia.