People
We are a team of researchers excited about building algorithms that perceive and understand our world.
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Vincent Sitzmann Assistant Professor & Principal Investigator
Vincent is the principal investigator of the Scene Representation Group at MIT CSAIL, where he works as an assistant professor. Previously, he finished his PhD at Stanford University and a postdoc at MIT.
His research interest lies in neural scene representations — the way neural networks learn to represent information on our world.
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Ayush Tewari Postdoc
Ayush is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL working with Bill Freeman, Josh Tenenbaum, and Vincent. He completed his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics with Christian Theobalt. He received an Otto Hahn Medal from the Max Planck Society for his PhD. His research develops methods for perceiving and recreating the 3D structure of the visual world from sparse image observations in a self-supervised manner.
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Ana Dodik PhD Student
Ana Dodik is a PhD student and Presidential Fellow at MIT CSAIL working on neural representations for geometry processing.
Prior to joining MIT, she spent two years developing next-generation virtual presence at Meta. She graduated with a Master’s degree from ETH Zurich, where she spent a year collaborating with Disney Research Studios on problems at the intersection of machine learning and offline rendering. She also spent time as a research assistant at the Computer Vision and Geometry group at ETH Zurich and as a computer vision intern at Microsoft and Oculus.
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Chonghyuk (Andrew) Song PhD Student
Chonghyuk (Andrew) Song is a first-year PhD student at MIT CSAIL advised by Prof. Vincent Siztmann. Prior to joining MIT, he graduated with a Master’s degree from CMU, where he worked with Prof. Deva Ramanan and Prof. Jun-Yan Zhu on dynamic scene reconstruction from video.
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Artem Lukoianov PhD Student
Artem Lukoianov is a PhD student at MIT CSAIL working with Prof. Justin Solomon and Vincent. He graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne with a Master’s degree in Data Science, and from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with an undergraduate degree in applied math. He is interested in Machine Perception and Equivariant Representational Learning.
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Boyuan Chen PhD Student
Boyuan Chen is a second-year PhD student working with Vincent and Prof. Russ Tedrake. Before joining MIT, he graduated from UC Berkeley where he researched on deep reinforcement learning and worked at Google X researching visual-language models for robot planning. Boyuan is a full-stack robotic enthusiast who has built many robots himself. He is broadly interested in connecting deep learning with mathematical structures in decision making. In particular, he hopes to bridge 3d computer vision and robotics so intelligent robots can free humanity from tedious tasks.
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Cameron Smith Visiting Researcher
Cameron graduated from UCSD for his undergraduate studies in computer science, and is currently working with Vincent and Ayush to develop scalable neural scene representations. He is particularly interested in endowing models with 3D representations for both geometry and motion, with the ultimate goal of building rich backbones for sample-efficient learning of downstream tasks.
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David Charatan PhD Student
David is a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, advised by Vincent.
He graduated from Brown University with an undergraduate degree in computer engineering and is currently working at Common Sense Machines in Cambridge.
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Eric Ming Chen PhD Student
Eric is a PhD student at MIT CSAIL advised by Prof. Vincent Sitzmann. Before starting his PhD, he was an undergrad at Cornell University where he conducted research in computer vision, computer graphics and geometric deep learning. Eric’s research is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
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George Cazenavette PhD Student
George is a first-year PhD student working with Prof. Antonio Torralba and Vincent.
He just finished his Master’s degree at Carnegie Mellon and previously did his undergrad at Louisiana Tech. He is interested in applying generative models to scene representations and neural rendering.
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Hyunwoo Ryu PhD Student
Hyunwoo is a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, advised by Prof. Vincent Sitzmann. Before joining MIT, he earned his Master’s degree from Yonsei University, where he worked on equivariant generative modeling and 3D representations for robotic manipulation.
His research focuses on geometry-grounded representation learning for embodied agents. Hyunwoo’s overarching goal is to establish a foundational framework that enables intelligent systems to discover the underlying causal structures of the world through observing and interacting with their environment.
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Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya PhD Student
Ishaan is a first-year PhD student at MIT CSAIL working with Prof. Vincent Sitzmann and Prof. Phillip Isola. Before MIT, he was an undergraduate student at Columbia University where he worked on 3D scene representations for predictive models of physical systems, and vision-and-language research.
He is interested in designing algorithms to learn models of control and dynamics from perception in open world scenes and the impact such models can have on robotic tasks that require dexterity and precision.
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Sizhe Li PhD Student
Sizhe Li is a PhD student and Presidential Fellow at MIT CSAIL working with Vincent Sitzmann and Josh Tenenbaum. Sizhe received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Rochester with the highest honors in research. Sizhe is interested in building inverse models that learn to capture the rich and structured representation of our world from unstructured observation, through physical interactions of embodied agents. To this end, his research draws ideas from vision, graphics, robotics, and computational cognitive science.
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Ali Cy Undergraduate Researcher
Ali is a sophomore at MIT studying Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. She is working on a UROP with the Scene Representation Group in video generation and motion modelling. She previously worked in Marin Soljacic’s lab on understanding contrastive learning. She is interested in understanding the nature of intelligence and vision.
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Kairo Morton Undergraduate Researcher
Kairo is a fourth year Undergraduate Student working towards his Bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making. Prior to joining the group as an Undergraduate Researcher he completed two research internships at Google where he built models for Webpage Translation, and Video Question Answering. As a part of the group Kairo currently works with Ayush to develop general neural scene representations that can be adapted for a variety of downstream tasks and applications.
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