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