About Me

I am currently a Research Scientist at NVIDIA. I received my PhD from UC Berkeley, where I was advised by Prof. Angjoo Kanazawa in BAIR.

Prior to my doctoral studies, I served as a research assistant in the Vision & Graphics Lab at USC ICT for two years, collaborating with Prof. Hao Li. I obtained my B.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics and M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, where I worked closely with Prof. Shi-Min Hu and Prof. Song-Hai Zhang. I have also interned at NVIDIA, Google Research, Facebook Reality Labs, and Bytedance AI Lab.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics, with a particular focus on 3D generation and reconstruction in the old days and now interactive world model and efficient ML.


Publications

2026


Lyra 2.0: Explorable Generative 3D Worlds

Tianchang Shen* , Sherwin Bahmani , Kai He , Sangeetha Grama Srinivasan , Tianshi Cao , Jiawei Ren , Ruilong Li , Zian Wang , Nicholas Sharp , Zan Gojcic , Sanja Fidler , Jiahui Huang , Huan Ling , Jun Gao , Xuanchi Ren* .

arXiv 2026

VGG-T3: Offline Feed-Forward 3D Reconstruction at Scale

Sven Elflein , Ruilong Li , Sérgio Agostinho , Zan Gojcic , Laura Leal-Taixé , Qunjie Zhou , Aljosa Osep .

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR, 2026)

Test-Time Training with KV Binding Is Secretly Linear Attention

Junchen Liu* , Sven Elflein , Or Litany , Zan Gojcic , Ruilong Li* .

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML, 2026)

3DGS2-TR: Scalable Second-Order Trust-Region Method for 3D Gaussian Splatting

Roger Hsiao , Yuchen Fang , Xiangru Huang , Ruilong Li , Hesam Rabeti , Zan Gojcic , Javad Lavaei , James Demmel , Sophia Shao .

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML, 2026)

2025


SimULi: Real-Time LiDAR and Camera Simulation with Unscented Transforms

Haithem Turki* , Qi Wu* , Xin Kang , Janick Martinez Esturo , Shengyu Huang , Ruilong Li , Zan Gojcic , Riccardo de Lutio .

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR, 2026)

Cameras as Relative Positional Encoding

Ruilong Li* , Brent Yi* , Junchen Liu* , Hang Gao , Yi Ma , Angjoo Kanazawa .

NeurIPS 2025

2024


gsplat: Efficient Gaussian Splatting CUDA Backend

JMLR 2025

NeRF-XL: Scaling NeRFs with Multiple GPUs

Ruilong Li , Sanja Fidler , Angjoo Kanazawa , Francis Williams .

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV, 2024)

2023


NerfAcc: A General NeRF Acceleration Toolbox

Ruilong Li , Hang Gao , Matthew Tancik , Angjoo Kanazawa .

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV, 2023)

Nerfstudio: A collaboration friendly studio for NeRFs.

Matthew Tancik* , Ethan Weber* , Evonne Ng* , Ruilong Li , Brent Yi , Terrance Wang , Alexander Kristoffersen , Jake Austin , Kamyar Salahi , Abhik Ahuja , David McAllister , Angjoo Kanazawa .

ACM Siggraph 2023

2022


Monocular Dynamic View Synthesis: A Reality Check

Hang Gao , Ruilong Li , Shubham Tulsiani , Bryan Russell , Angjoo Kanazawa .

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS, 2022)

TAVA: Template-free Animatable Volumetric Actors

Ruilong Li , Julian Tanke , Minh Vo , Michael Zollhoefer , Jurgen Gall , Angjoo Kanazawa , Christoph Lassner .

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV, 2022)

2021


PlenOctrees for Real-time Rendering of Neural Radiance Fields

Alex Yu , Ruilong Li , Matthew Tancik , Hao Li , Ren Ng , Angjoo Kanazawa .

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV, 2021) [Oral]

AI Choreographer: Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation with AIST++

Ruilong Li* , Shan Yang* , David A. Ross , Angjoo Kanazawa .

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV, 2021)

2020


Monocular Real-Time Volumetric Performance Capture

Ruilong Li* , Yuliang Xiu* , Shunsuke Saito , Zeng Huang , Kyle Olszewski , Hao Li .

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV, 2020)

Volumetric Human Teleportation

Ruilong Li , Kyle Olszewski , Yuliang Xiu , Shunsuke Saito , Zeng Huang , Hao Li .

Siggraph Real-Time Live 2020 [Jury's Choice Award (Best Show Award)]

Learning Formation of Physically-Based Face Attributes

Ruilong Li* , Karl Bladin* , Yajie Zhao* , Chinmay Chinara , Owen Ingraham , Pengda Xiang , Xinglei Ren , Pratusha Prasad , Bipin Kishore , Jun Xing , Hao Li .

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR, 2020)

2019


Deep Portrait Image Completion and Extrapolation

Xian Wu , Ruilong Li , Fang-Lue Zhang , Jian-Cheng Liu , Jue Wang , Ariel Shamir , Shi-Min Hu .

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)

Pose2Seg: Detection Free Human Instance Segmentation

Song-Hai Zhang , Ruilong Li , Xin Dong , Paul Rosin , Zixi Cai , Xi Han , Dingcheng Yang , Haozhi Huang , Shi-Min Hu .

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR, 2019)

Example-Guided Style-Consistent Image Synthesis from Semantic Labeling

Miao Wang , Guo-Ye Yang , Ruilong Li , Run-Ze Liang , Song-Hai Zhang , Peter M. Hall , Shi-Min Hu .

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR, 2019)


Last update: May, 2026