My core research interest is in empowering human experience through digital technology. To this end, I lead the Creative and Applied AI Tools (CAAT) research group at NVIDIA, focusing on: 1) making it effortless to lift real-world around us into digital applications and 2) extending AI techniques to interactive tools that empower not just productivity, but human creativity as well. We also release tools and libraries for researchers and artists, and are always looking for creative people to work with!
News
Sep 2026
Aug 2026
In support of more inclusive venue locations I stand with the community and exclude myself from SIGGRAPH Asia publication for GLOSS.
Kudos to those who stood up for this issue!
Jul 2026
Our SIGGRAPH Course turns any Gaussian Splat scene into a sim-ready USD with the latest from Kaolin Library and our research.
Kudos Clement, Vismay Modi, Rishit Dagli and team!
Jul 2026
My talk at SIGGRAPH shows how to quickly prototype interactive Web UI over your AI model / any custom renderer, supporting all interactions.
Jul 2026
Gave an invited talk on drawing inspiration from the world around us at the SIGGRAPH Workshop on Human AI Co-Creation.
May 2026
We are releasing VoMP (ICLR) and AdaVoMP (ICLR) for accurately predicting physics materials throughout 3D objects in any representation, -- splats and meshes welcome.
Kudos Rishit Dagli!
Interactive Demos & Prototypes
NVIDIA Kaolin Library for Interactive 3D AI Research
Publications
GLOSS: Geometric Local Self-Similarity Learning for Faithful Reference-guided Texture Fill
arxiv
2026
TRON: Tracing Rays to Orchestrate a Neural Renderer for 3D Gaussian Reconstructions
arxiv
2026
ArtisanGS: Interactive Tools for Gaussian Splat Selection with AI and Human in the Loop
arxiv
2026
Diffusion Texture Painting
SIGGRAPH
2024
In the Press:
Neural Brushstroke Engine: Learning a Latent Style Space of Interactive Drawing Tools
SIGGRAPH Asia (TOG)
2022
3DStyleNet: Creating 3D Shapes with Geometric and Texture Style Variations
ICCV
2021
Nonlinear Color Triads for Approximation, Learning and Direct Manipulation of Color Distributions
SIGGRAPH
2020
Playful Palette: An Interactive Parametric Color Mixer for Artists
SIGGRAPH
2017
Fab Forms: Customizable Objects for Fabrication with Validity and Geometry Caching
SIGGRAPH
2015
Formatting Time-aligned ASR Transcripts for Readability
NAACL HLT
2010
Empathic Painting: Interactive Stylization through Observed Emotional State
NPAR
2006
In the Press:
Doctorate Work
My thesis
The Design of Playful and Intelligent Creative Tools is
here. Digital technology offers an unprecedented ability to craft our own
creative media, and machine intelligence holds boundless potential for
empowering creativity. How does one approach design when nearly anything is possible? This thesis addresses the problem of building new creative tools, with intelligence in the interactive loop, without losing sight of the human creators and their needs. Work collected here has been published as first author paper in the top-tier venues of three major domains, including twice at SIGGRAPH (graphics), CVPR (computer vision), and CHI (human computer interaction).
Go to colorsandbox.com for demos of my work on color.
Talks
