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Gordon (Guocheng) Qian

钱国成

Senior Research Scientist

Snap Research

Palo Alto, CA, United States

Gordon Qian is a Senior Research Scientist on the Snap Research Creative Vision team, where he focuses on end-to-end research and development for video, image, and 3D media generation. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from KAUST advised by Prof. Bernard Ghanem. He has authored 20+ papers in top-tier conferences and journals, with over 3,500 citations and a h-index of 19. His work has been shipped to three Snapchat products serving 900 million monthly active users, with six patents filed. His representative work includes PointNeXt (NeurIPS, 1.2K+ citations, 1K+ GitHub stars), Magic123 (ICLR, 450+ citations, 1.6K+ GitHub stars), and Omni-ID (CVPR, integrated into products, 1 patent). He also serves as an Area Chair for ICLR 2026.
If you are interested in working on image and video generative models with me, please reach out at gordonqian2017 [at] gmail.com

Education

Interests

News

  • 2026/03: Corresponding authored Canvas-to-Image accepted to SIGGRAPH 2026!
  • 2026/02: Two papers accepted to CVPR 2026!
  • 2025/09: Corresponding authored paper SR-Training accepted to NeurIPS 2025. SR-Training was shipped to product pipeline as a training technique.
  • 2025/07: ComposeMe shipped to Snapchat AI Lens to make personalized generation follow expression prompts. Multi-million human-centric dataset developped in ComposeMe is used in training for all related products.
  • 2025/07: First-authored paper ComposeMe accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2025.
  • 2025/05: ThinkDiff accepted to ICML 2025!
  • 2025/05: Omni-ID shipped to Snapchat production pipeline to support Look Like Me.
  • 2025/02: Three papers accepted to CVPR 2025, including one first-authored paper, Omni-ID , and two mentored internship projects, WonderLand and AC3D .
  • 2025/01: VD3D accepted to ICLR 2025.
  • 2024/01: First-authored paper Magic123 accepted to ICLR 2024.
  • 2023/12: Joined Snap Inc. as a research scientist working on personalized generation with Kfir Aberman.
  • 2023/10: First-authored paper Pix4Point accepted to 3DV 2024.
  • 2023/06: ZeroSeg accepted to ICCV.
  • 2023/05: Joined Snap Inc. as a research scientist intern working on text/image-to-3D.
  • 2022/11: One paper accepted to Advanced Science (IF 2021: 17.52).
  • 2022/10: First-authored paper PointNeXt accepted to NeurIPS'22.
  • 2022/08: Joined On Device AI team under XRTech in Meta as an AI research scientist intern.
  • 2022/06: First-authored paper TENet accepted to ICCP'22.
  • 2022/04: First-authored paper TNAS accepted to CVPR'22 workshop.
  • 2021/10: First-authored paper ASSANet accepted to NeurIPS'21 as a spotlight paper.
  • 2021/03: Co-first-authored paper DeepGCNs accepted to TPAMI'21.
  • 2021/03: First-authored paper PU-GCN accepted to CVPR'21.
  • 2020/12: Graduated with a master’s degree in Computer Science.
  • 2020/03: Co-first-authored paper SGAS (Sequential Greedy Architecture Search) accepted to CVPR’20.
  • 2020/01: Served as a teaching assistant for CS390D Deep Learning (Spring 2020).
  • 2018/07: Graduated from Xi’an Jiaotong University with the highest undergraduate honor (GPA 3.9/4.3).
  • 2018/06: Joined SenseTime Research as a research scientist intern, supervised by Jimmy S. Ren .

Experience

Snap Research

Senior Research Scientist
Dec 2023 – Present

Snap Research

Research Scientist Intern
May 2023 – Sep 2023

Meta Reality Lab

AI Research Scientist Intern
Aug 2022 – Jan 2023

Microsoft Research Asia

Remote Intern
Dec 2021 – May 2022

Megvii Research

Research Intern
Jun 2020 – Dec 2021

SenseTime Research

Computer Vision Research Intern
Jul 2018 – May 2019

Awards

  • 2022/05 KAUST: CEMSE Dean’s List Award (AY 2021–2022, top 20%).
  • 2021/12 KAUST: CEMSE Research Excellence Award (AY 2021–2022, top 12 of 400).
  • 2019/06 KAUST: KAUST Fellowship for MS/PhD studies, providing full coverage of tuition, housing, medical insurance, and a monthly stipend.
  • 2017/12 Xi’an Jiaotong University: Outstanding Undergraduate (highest undergraduate honor, top 10 of 2,000).
  • 2017/12 Xi’an Jiaotong University: Excellent Student Cadre (top 3%).
  • 2017/10 Ministry of Education, China: National First-Class Scholarship (top 1% nationwide).