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Gordon (Guocheng) Qian

钱国成

Research Scientist

Snap Research

Palo Alto, CA, United States

Gordon Qian is a research scientist at Snap Research Creative Vision team, working on Generative Models. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from KAUST, where he was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Bernard Ghanem. He has authored 19 top-tier conference and journal papers, including one first-authored work with over 1,100 citations and three first-authored works with over 300 citations each. In total, his publications have received over 3200 citations, and his current h-index is 19. His representative work includes PointNeXt (NeurIPS, >1100 cites, >900 GitHub stars), Magic123 (ICLR, >450 cites, >1.6K GitHub stars) and Omni-ID (CVPR'25, products integrated into Snapchat). He also serves 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.