Welcome to my homepage! I am a Senior Research Manager at NVIDIA Research, where I lead the Digital Human AI Research (DAIR) team. My work focuses on improving the entire digital human creation process, including capture, modeling, synthesis, and animation, with an emphasis on both appearance and dynamic characteristics. I earned my PhD in Computer Science (2014-2018) from the University of Bonn, Germany, under the guidance of Prof. Juergen Gall. Prior to that, I completed my masters (2011-2013) in Finland and undergrad (2006-2010) in Pakistan. I developed my passion for computer vision and machine learning in 2009 during my undergrad thesis on vehicle make and model recognition and have been in love with the field ever since. Now I mostly work at the intersection of computer vision, graphics, and machine learning, with a particular emphasis on 3D digital humans.
We are always looking for motivated research interns. Feel free to reach out if you are interested.
05/05/2025:GENMO is available on arXiv. Generate human motions from multiple modalities including text, audio, and video.
12/12/2024:SimAvatar is accepted to CVPR 2025. Generate SimReady avatars with just text prompts.
22/01/2024:A paper on text-driven 3D human motion generation is now available on arXiv.
05/01/2024:What You See is What You GAN, now available on arXiv.
18/12/2023:GAvatar is available on arXiv now. Make Gaussian avatars using simple text descriptions.
