*Towaki Takikawa* - Curriculum Vitae [tovacinni@gmail.com](mailto:tovacinni@gmail.com) | [tovacinni.github.io](https://tovacinni.github.io) (#) 🏫 Education Ph.D.
(2020-????) : *University of Toronto*, Computer Science :
Advisors: [Alec Jacobson](https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson/), [Sanja Fidler](https://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~fidler/) B.S.
(2016-2020) : *University of Waterloo*, Computer Science :
_Honours with Distinction_ :
Advisors: [Yuri Boykov](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~yboykov/), [Morgan McGuire](https://casual-effects.com/) (#) ⚗️ Journal and Conference Publications Full list available at: [scholar.google.com/citations?user=bWtMl_MAAAAJ](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bWtMl_MAAAAJ) 1. [What You See is What You GAN: Rendering Every Pixel for High-Fidelity Geometry in 3D GANs](https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nxp/wysiwyg/)
Alex Trevithick, Matthew Chan, *Towaki Takikawa*, Umar Iqbal, Shalini De Mello, Manmohan Chandraker, Ravi Ramamoorthi, Koki Nagano.
_IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)_, 2024. - [Compact Neural Graphics Primitives with Learned Hash Probing](https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/compact-ngp/)
*Towaki Takikawa*, Thomas Müller, Merlin Nimier-David, Alex Evans, Sanja Fidler, Alec Jacobson, Alexander Keller.
_ACM SIGGRAPH Asia_, 2023. - [ATT3D: Amortized Text-to-3D Object Synthesis](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.07349)
Jonathan Lorraine, Kevin Xie, Xiaohui Zeng, Chen-Hsuan Lin, *Towaki Takikawa*, Nicholas Sharp, Tsung-Yi Lin, Ming-Yu Liu, Sanja Fidler, James Lucas.
_IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)_, 2023. - [Magic3D: High-Resolution Text-to-3D Content Creation](https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dir/magic3d/)
Chen-Hsuan Lin*, Jun Gao*, Luming Tang*, *Towaki Takikawa**, Xiaohui Zeng*, Xun Huang, Karsten Kreis, Ming-Yu Liu, Sanja Fidler, Tsung-Yi Lin.
_IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)_, 2023. *Highlight (Top 2%)* - [Variable Bitrate Neural Fields](https://nv-tlabs.github.io/vqad/)
*Towaki Takikawa*, Alex Evans, Jonathan Tremblay, Thomas Müller, Morgan McGuire, Alec Jacobson, Sanja Fidler.
_ACM SIGGRAPH North America_, 2022. - [Neural Fields in Visual Computing and Beyond](https://neuralfields.cs.brown.edu/)
Yiheng Xie, *Towaki Takikawa*, Shunsuke Saito, Or Litany, Shiqin Yan, Numair Khan, Federico Tombari, James Tompkin, Vincent Sitzmann, Srinath Sridhar.
_Eurographics / Computer Graphics Forum (EG / CGF)_, 2022. *State-of-the-Art Report*. - [A 3D Signed Distance Function Dataset](https://tovacinni.github.io/sdf-explorer/)
*Towaki Takikawa*, Andrew Glassner, Morgan McGuire.
_Journal of Computer Graphics Techniques (JCGT)_, 2022. - [Neural Geometric Level of Detail: Real-time Rendering with Implicit 3D Shapes](https://nv-tlabs.github.io/nglod/)
*Towaki Takikawa**, Joey Litalien*, Kangxue Yin, Karsten Kreis, Charles Loop, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Alec Jacobson, Morgan McGuire, Sanja Fidler.
_IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)_, 2021. *Oral Presentation (Top 4%)*. - [Gated-SCNN: Gated-Shape CNNs for Semantic Segmentation](https://nv-tlabs.github.io/GSCNN/)
*Towaki Takikawa**, David Acuna*, Varun Jampani, Sanja Fidler.
_IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)_, 2019. (#) 🧪 Workshop Publications 1. [RTMV: A Ray-Traced Multi-View Synthetic Dataset for Novel View Synthesis](http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mmeshry/projects/rtmv/)
Jonathan Tremblay, Moustafa Meshry, Alex Evans, Jan Kautz, Alex Keller, Sameh Khamis, Charles Loop, Nathan Morrical, Thomas Müller, Koki Nagano, *Towaki Takikawa*, Stan Birchfield.
_Learn3DG Workshop at European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)_, 2022. (#) 🗺️ Workshop / Tutorial Organization 1. [Course on Neural Fields in Visual Computing]()
*Towaki Takikawa*, Shunsuke Saito, James Tompkin, Alex Yu, Or Litany, Vincent Sitzmann, Srinath Sridhar.
_ACM SIGGRAPH North America_, 2023. - [Tutorial on Neural Fields in Computer Vision](https://neuralfields.cs.brown.edu/cvpr22.html)
Yiheng Xie, *Towaki Takikawa*, Shunsuke Saito, Or Litany, James Tompkin, Vincent Sitzmann, Srinath Sridhar.
_IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)_, 2022. (#) 📖 Book Chapters 1. State-of-the-Art in Neural Fields (イマドキのNeural Fields）
*Towaki Takikawa*
State-of-the-Art in Computer Vision（コンピュータビジョン最前線）from Kyoristu Publishing (#) 🔭 Research Experience 2020-Present : *Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research*, Toronto, ON. :
New Experiences Research Group :
Advisors: [Morgan McGuire](https://casual-effects.com), [David Luebke](https://luebke.us/) 2018-2020 : *Research Assistant at University of Waterloo*, Waterloo, ON. :
Advisors: [Yuri Boykov](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~yboykov/) 2019 : *Research Intern at Preferred Networks*, Tokyo, Japan. :
Advisors: [Richard Calland](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-calland-013377117/), [Tommi Kerola](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommi-kerola/) 2019 : *Research Intern at NVIDIA*, Toronto, ON. :
Toronto AI Labs :
Advisors: [Sanja Fidler](https://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~fidler/) 2014 : *Research Assistant at Oregon State University*, Corvallis, OR. (#) 📣 Invited Talks 1. Foundations and State-of-Art on Neural Radiance Fields
[Visual Computing 2023](https://visualcomputing.jp/vc2023/)
Invited by [Shigeru Kuriyama](https://www.tut.ac.jp/university/faculty/cs/164.html)
September 17th, 2023 - Alternative Geometry Representations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): _Summer Geometry Initiative_
Invited by [Silvia Sellán](https://www.silviasellan.com) and [Justin Solomon](https://people.csail.mit.edu/jsolomon/)
July 21, 2023 - Copyright, Provenance, and Attribution for Generative Art
BIRS Workshop on 3D Generative Modeling
Invited by [Andrea Tagliasacchi](https://taiya.github.io)
July 20th, 2023 - Volumetric Multimedia Compression, Generation, and Transport with Neural Fields
[Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), SIG-CVIM Symposium](http://cvim.ipsj.or.jp)
Invited by [Naoto Inoue](https://naoto0804.github.io)
May 15th, 2023 - Volumetric Multimedia Compression, Generation, and Transport with Neural Fields
University College London
Invited by [Kaan Akşit](https://kaanaksit.com)
February 8th, 2023 - Discussion on Instant-NGP and Variable Bitrate Neural Fields
[PRIME ITN](https://prime-itn.eu)
January 10th, 2023 - Doing World Class Research Domestically and Abroad
cvpaper.challenge Conference Winter 2022
Invited by Risa Shinoda
December 13th, 2022 - Neural Fields (and more) as Alternative Geometry Representations
University of Toronto CSC 2520, Fall 2022
Invited by Alec Jacobson
November 29th, 2022 - Neural Fields (and more) as Alternative Geometry Representations
[Toronto Geometry and Architecture](https://toronto-geometry-and-architecture-2022.github.io)
Invited by [Selena Ling](https://iszihan.github.io)
October 21st, 2022 - Volumetric Multimedia Compression, Generation and Transport with Neural Fields
Adobe Research
Invited by [Zexiang Xu](https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~zex014/)
August 23rd, 2022 - Neural Fields (and more) as Alternative Geometry Representations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): _Summer Geometry Initiative_
Invited by [Silvia Sellán](https://www.silviasellan.com)
July 19, 2022 - Neural Geometric Level of Detail
CVIM MIRU Symposium
Invited by [Masayuki Tanaka](http://www.ok.sc.e.titech.ac.jp/~mtanaka/)
July 25, 2021 - Industry-Academia Collaborations in Canada
Symposium on Sensing via Image Information (SSII): _Special Session on Rising Stars in Computer Vision_
Invited by [Yuji Oyamada](https://sites.google.com/view/dryujioyamada/home?authuser=0) and [Hirokatsu Kataoka](http://hirokatsukataoka.net/)
June 9th, 2021 - Neural Geometric Level of Detail
Symposium on Sensing via Image Information (SSII): _Special Session on Rising Stars in Computer Vision_
Invited by [Yuji Oyamada](https://sites.google.com/view/dryujioyamada/home?authuser=0) and [Hirokatsu Kataoka](http://hirokatsukataoka.net/)
June 9th, 2021 - [Neural Geometric Level of Detail](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7W6XrFtMs)
Toronto Geometry Colloquium
Invited by the TGC Organizing Committee
April 21st, 2021 - [Gated-Shape CNNs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxnUKG8TThM)
Toronto AI Squared Forum
Invited by Synced 机器之心
September 22nd, 2019 (#) 🔧 Engineering Experience 2018 : *Software Engineer Intern at NVIDIA*, Santa Clara, CA. :
Autonomous Driving Products Team 2017 : *Software Engineer Intern at Tulip Interfaces*, Somerville, MA. 2016 : *Software Engineer Intern at Active911*, Philomath, OR. (#) 💻 Open Source Software 1. [Kaolin Wisp: A PyTorch Library and Engine for Neural Fields Research](https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/kaolin-wisp)
*Creator* - [Kaolin: A Pytorch Library for Accelerating 3D Deep Learning Research](https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/kaolin/)
*Developer* - [sdf-explorer: A Dataset and Explorer for 3D Signed Distance Functions](https://github.com/tovacinni/sdf-explorer)
*Creator* - Other miscellaneous code snippets and libraries can be found at [github.com/tovacinni](https://github.com/tovacinni). (#) ✍️ Teaching Experience Winter 2023 : *Teaching Assistant at University of Toronto* :
CSC 320 - Visual Computing with [Kyros Kutulakos](https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kyros/) :
Tutorial lecturer, office hours, and roaming Piazza. Fall 2022 : *Teaching Assistant at University of Toronto* :
CSC 320 - Visual Computing with [Kyros Kutulakos](https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kyros/) :
Coursework development, office hours, and roaming Piazza. Summer 2022 : *Teaching Assistant at University of Toronto* :
CSC 320 - Visual Computing with [Kyros Kutulakos](https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kyros/) :
Prep TA for coursework development. Winter 2022 : *Teaching Assistant at University of Toronto* :
CSC 320 - Visual Computing with [Kyros Kutulakos](https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kyros/) :
Tutorials lecturer and exam prep. Fall 2019 : *Teaching Assistant at University of Waterloo* :
CS 484/684 - Computational Vision with Yuri Boykov :
Taught tutorials and created homework assignments. Summer 2015 : *Teaching Assistant at Linn Benton Community College* :
CS 120, 160, 161 with Sisi Virasak :
Grading and coursework development for introductory CS. (#) 🏅 Awards + [2023 Borealis AI Fellowship](https://www.borealisai.com/news/the-borealis-ai-2022-2023-fellowships-fostering-next-gen-research-talent/) + 2020 McGill Engineering Doctorate Award (MEDA) [138k, declined] + 2020 David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship [declined] + 2020 Waterloo International Master's Award of Excellence (IMAE) [declined] + 2019 University of Waterloo President's Research Award + 2018 University of Waterloo President's Research Award + 2018 GM/SAE AutoDrive Competition, 4th Place + 2016 University of Waterloo President's Scholarship of Distinction + 2015 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Gold Key Award for Game Development + 2015 FIRST Robotics World Championships Quarter-Finalist + 2015 FIRST Robotics Pacific Northwest Championships Winner (#) 📚 Service (##) Reviewing - ACM SIGGRAPH (Technical Papers and Posters), 2022, 2023 - ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (Technical Papers), 2023 - IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A), 2022 - Pacific Graphics (PG/CGF), 2022 - IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023 - IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023 - Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023 - International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2020 - Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2023 - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2020, 2023 - IEEE Interational Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023 (##) Outreach - [Writing blog posts about grad school in Canada](https://medium.com/p/eca365370415) (*25k+ page views*) - ACDC SIGGRAPH Mentor (2021-Current) - UWaterloo TechPlus Mentor (2019-Current) - UWaterloo BluePrint Mentor - [UTokyo Shurijo Digital 3D Reconstruction Project](https://www.our-shurijo.org/en/) - UWaterloo Mathematics Society Mentor (#) 🍵 Team Experience 2017-2020 : *Software Director / Mentor at WATonomous AutoDrive Team*, Waterloo, ON. :
Managed and mentored hundreds of students over 3 years. :
Advisors: [Derek Rayside](https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~drayside/) 2012-2016 : *Team Captain at Crescent Valley Robotics*, Corvallis, OR. :
4 years of fun robotics competitions! (#) 📰 Media Appearanceas - [GTC: Shutterstock Teams with NVIDIA to Build AI Models for Generative 3D](https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/gtc-shutterstock-teams-with-nvidia-to-build-ai-models-for-generative-3d/)
FXGuide (on Picasso 3D)
March 22nd, 2023 - [What Nvidia’s New Text-To-3D Means For Engineering and Product Design](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewegner/2022/11/24/what-nvidias-new-text-to-3d-means-for-engineering--product-design/?sh=6a1276297b19)
Forbes (on Magic3D)
November 24th, 2022 - [テキストから高解像度の3Dモデルを生成するAI「Magic3D」をNVIDIAが発表、テキストの微調整やスタイルの模倣も可能](https://gigazine.net/news/20221122-nvidia-magic3d-text-to-3d-models/)
GIGAZINE (on Magic3D)
November 22nd, 2022 - [3D for everyone? Nvidia’s Magic3D can generate 3D models from text](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/nvidias-magic3d-creates-3d-models-from-written-descriptions-thanks-to-ai/)
Ars Technica (on Magic3D)
November 21st, 2022 - [NVIDIA、SIGGRAPH 2022でメタバース関連技術や新グラフィックスライブラリを発表](https://www.4gamer.net/games/649/G064938/20220809015/)
4Gamer (on Kaolin Wisp)
August 10th, 2022 - [Nvidia launches new metaverse efforts at SIGGRAPH](https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-launches-new-metaverse-efforts-at-siggraph/)
Venture Beat (on Kaolin Wisp)
August 9th, 2022 - [Crescent Valley robotics heads to world competition for fourth straight year](https://www.gazettetimes.com/news/local/crescent-valley-robotics-headed-to-world-competition-for-fourth-straight-year/article_cd58c41a-ff69-5bc9-9f35-b6e3902c2fcf.html)
Gazette Times
April 26th, 2016 - [Youth Symphony performs Sunday](https://www.gazettetimes.com/albany/entertainment/music/youth-symphony-performs-sunday/article_1693e7a8-6afd-50f1-bfdb-1ed3a876f6ce.html)
Gazette Times
December 9th, 2015 - [Crescent Valley robotics team heads to world championship](https://www.gazettetimes.com/albany/entertainment/music/youth-symphony-performs-sunday/article_1693e7a8-6afd-50f1-bfdb-1ed3a876f6ce.html)
Gazette Times
April 24th, 2013 (#) 🏀 Fun and Games (##) Music - 2022- At-Home-Guitarist - 2019-2022 Hart House Orchestra, 1st/2nd Violin - 2018 Stanford Summer Symphony, 1st Violin - 2017 MIT Summer Philharmonic Orchestra (MITSPO), 1st Violin - 2016 UWaterloo Orchestra, Associate Concertmaster - 2016 OSAA State Orchestra Competition, 1st Place - 2015 NAfME All-Northwest Orchestra, 1st Violin - 2014 OSAA State Orchestra Competition, 1st Place (##) Sports - 2021 UToronto Intramural Basketball, League Finalist - 2019 UWaterloo Intramural Dodgeball, League Finalist - 2018 UWaterloo Intramural Futsal, League Finalist - 2018 UWaterloo Intramural Flag Football, League Finalist - 2017 UWaterloo Intramural Flag Football, League Finalist