Di Liu
PhD Candidate @ Rutgers

Brief Bio. I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, advised by Board of Governors Professor Dimitris N. Metaxas. Prior to this, I was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University.

My current research interests lie primarily in (1) 3D Computer Vision and Computer Graphics (e.g., Diffusion Models, Gaussian Splatting); (2) Large-scale multi-modality pretraining and foundation models for visual understanding (e.g., vision-language models, multimodal models, world models).

617 Bowser Rd
Piscataway, NJ 08854
CBIM, Rutgers
Email: di.liu [at] rutgers [dot] edu

Background

Education

Sept. 2021 - Present
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Jan. 2020 - Aug. 2021
The Johns Hopkins University
Research Assistant. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Experience

Jan 2025 - Present
Snap Research NYC, Snap. New York City, NY, USA
Research Scientist Intern. Host: Jian Wang
May 2024 - Nov 2024
Codec Avatars Team, Reality Labs Research, Meta. Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Research Scientist Intern. Host: Chen Cao
  • Universal Layered Codec Avatar Reconstruction from Videos. [CVPR'25]
Jan. 2024 - May. 2024
Cognition, Cloud & AI, Microsoft. Redmond, WA
Research Scientist Intern. Host: Dongdong Chen
  • Large-scale Multi-modality Pretraining and Vision-language Models for Visual Understanding.
Jun. 2023 - Dec. 2023
Media Analytics Team, NEC Labs America, San Jose, CA, USA
Research Intern. Host: Bingbing Zhuang and Manmohan Chandraker
  • Instantaneous Perception of Moving Objects in 3D. [CVPR'24]
Sept. 2021 - Present
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Graduate Assistant. Supervised by: Prof. Dimitris N. Metaxas
Jan. 2020 - Aug. 2021
The Image Analysis and Communications Lab, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Research Assistant. Host: Prof. Jerry L. Prince
  • Label Super Resolution for 3D Magnetic Resonance Images. [SPIE'21]

Selected Publications

(Please check Google Scholar for the full list of my publications.)