Kaiwen(Kevin) Jiang

Email: kevinjiangedu at gmail dot com
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Hi! I'm a PhD candidate at UC San Diego, advised by Prof. Ravi Ramamoorthi. Previously, I received my bachelor's degree from Beijing Jiaotong University, and gratefully worked with Prof. Lin Gao, Prof. Hongbo Fu, Prof. Yu-Kun Lai, and Shu-Yu Chen. Besides, I spent a wonderful summer with Prof. Toby Jia-Jun Li from University of Notre Dame through the iSURE program. I also spent a fruitful summer at NVIDIA, working with Shalini De Mello, Koki Nagano, Xueting Li and Seonwook (Wookie) Park.

Publications

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. 

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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. 
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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. 
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Geometry Field Splatting with Gaussian Surfels
Kaiwen Jiang,  Venkataram Sivaram,  Cheng Peng,  Ravi Ramamoorthi
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025. 
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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. 
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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. 
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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

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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. 
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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. 
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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. 
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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. 
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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. 
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Academic Service

Reviewer of SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, TOG, CVPR, ECCV, TVCG, IJCV, NeurIPS.

About Me

My current research interests lie at the intersection of computer graphics and virtual reality. I obtained the SenseTime Scholarship in 2022, and was in Qualcomm fellowship Finalist in 2026.

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!).

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Last Updated: June 22nd, 2026