Computer graphics & computer vision
Kaiwen (Kevin) Jiang
Ph.D. Candidate at UC San Diego
Hi! I'm a Ph.D. candidate at UC San Diego , advised by Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi . I received my bachelor's degree from Beijing Jiaotong University, and I had the pleasure of working with Prof. Lin Gao , Prof. Hongbo Fu , Prof. Yu-Kun Lai , and Shu-Yu Chen .
In the summer of 2022, I participated in the iSURE program at University of Notre Dame, working with Prof. Toby Jia-Jun Li . I also had the opportunity to intern at NVIDIA in 2024, collaborating with Shalini De Mello , Koki Nagano , Xueting Li , and Seonwook (Wookie) Park , and at Apple in 2026, working with Kai-En Lin , Afshin Taghavi Nasrabadi, and Maneli Noorkami.
On the Job Market
I'm actively seeking research opportunities in computer graphics,
3D vision, neural rendering, and visual computing. If my work aligns with your
team's interests, I'd love to
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Selected 4
All publications 12
All publications, ordered by year.
2026
Instant Expressive Gaussian Head Avatars at Over 100 FPS
Kaiwen Jiang ,
Xueting Li,
Seonwook Park,
Ravi Ramamoorthi,
Shalini De Mello,
Koki Nagano
IEEE European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026.
2025
Differentiable Light Transport with Gaussian Surfels via Adapted Radiosity for Efficient Relighting and Geometry Reconstruction
Kaiwen Jiang ,
Jia-Mu Sun,
Zilu Li,
Dan Wang,
Tzu-Mao Li,
Ravi Ramamoorthi
ACM Transactions on Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025), 2025.
2025
MS-GS: Multi-Appearance Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting in the Wild
Deming Li,
Kaiwen Jiang ,
Yutao Tang,
Ravi Ramamoorthi,
Rama Chellappa,
Cheng Peng
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.
2025
Geometry Field Splatting with Gaussian Surfels
Kaiwen Jiang ,
Venkataram Sivaram,
Cheng Peng,
Ravi Ramamoorthi
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
2025
NeRFFaceShop: Learning a Photo-realistic 3D-aware Generative Model of Animatable and Relightable Heads from Large-scale In-the-wild Videos
Kaiwen Jiang ,
Feng-Lin Liu,
Shu-Yu Chen,
Pengfei Wan,
Yuan Zhang,
Yu-Kun Lai,
Hongbo Fu,
Lin Gao
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2025.
2024
A Construct-Optimize Approach to Sparse View Synthesis without Camera Pose
Kaiwen Jiang ,
Yang Fu,
Mukund Varma T,
Yash Belhe,
Xiaolong Wang,
Hao Su,
Ravi Ramamoorthi
ACM SIGGRAPH, 2024.
2024
Real-time 3D-aware Portrait Video Relighting
Ziqi Cai,
Kaiwen Jiang ,
Shu-Yu Chen,
Yu-Kun Lai,
Hongbo Fu,
Boxin Shi,
Lin Gao
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 Highlight .
2024
SPICA: Interactive Video Content Exploration through Augmented Audio Descriptions for Blind or Low-Vision Viewers
Zheng Ning,
Brianna L. Wimer,
Kaiwen Jiang ,
Keyi Chen,
Jerrick Ban,
Yapeng Tian,
Yuhang Zhao,
Toby Jia-Jun Li
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024.
2024
MIMOSA: Human-AI Co-Creation of Computational Spatial Audio Effects on Videos
Zheng Ning,
Zheng Zhang,
Jerrick Ban,
Kaiwen Jiang ,
Ruohong Gan,
Yapeng Tian,
Toby Jia-Jun Li
ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C), 2024.
2023
NeRFFaceLighting: Implicit and Disentangled Face Lighting Representation Leveraging Generative Prior in Neural Radiance Fields
Kaiwen Jiang ,
Shu-Yu Chen,
Hongbo Fu,
Lin Gao
ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2023.
2023
SketchFaceNeRF: Sketch-based Facial Generation and Editing in Neural Radiance Fields
Lin Gao,
Feng-Lin Liu,
Shu-Yu Chen,
Kaiwen Jiang ,
Chunpeng Li,
Yu-Kun Lai,
Hongbo Fu
ACM Transactions on Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH 2023), 2023.
2022
NeRFFaceEditing: Disentangled Face Editing in Neural Radiance Fields
Kaiwen Jiang ,
Shu-Yu Chen,
Feng-Lin Liu,
Hongbo Fu,
Lin Gao
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia, 2022, also in IEEE TPAMI 2025.
A little more
About Me
My research lies at the intersection of computer graphics and computer vision, with a focus on learning 3D representations from images and videos. I develop methods for reconstructing, rendering, and editing 3D scenes and digital humans, with particular interests in neural rendering, inverse rendering, and relightable, animatable avatars. My goal is to make realistic 3D content creation more efficient, accessible, and controllable.
My first name in Chinese is pronounced very similar to Kevin in English, which is, therefore, my English name. In spare time, I am a huge fan of Cyber Literature (over ten years of experience), and I occasionally play Screeps for fun (you can find my AI here !).
