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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, where he was 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 guocheng.qian [at] outlook.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.
  • 2025/07: ComposeMe shipped to Snapchat AI Lens to make personalized generation follow expression prompts.
  • 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).