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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 at 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 fortunate to be advised by Prof. Bernard Ghanem. He has authored 20+ top-tier conference and journal papers and his publications have received over 3500 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). His leading authored papers SR-Training (NeurIPS), Omni-ID, and ComposeMe (SIGGRAPH Asia) have been integrated into 3 Snapchat products, serving 900 million monthly active users, with 6 filed patents. He also serves as area chair for ICLR 2026.
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

  • 2026/02: two papers accepted to CVPR 2026!
  • 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

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 Aisa

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 (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.