Derek Nowrouzezahrai
@DerekRenderling
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Full Professor @McGillU & @Mila_Quebec. Director @McGill_CIM @CIFAR_News AI Chair & @Mila_Quebec/@UbisoftMTL Chair. Monte Carlo & ML for interactive simulation.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Joined January 2014
๐๐ฅIntroducing Ctrl-Crash: controllable video generation for autonomous driving! SOTA models struggle to generate physically realistic car crashes. We propose an image2video diffusion model with bounding box and crash type control. Website: https://t.co/vNBYhbx3c4 ๐งต->
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Interested in exploring the interplay of 3D graphics, imaging, physical simulation, modern ML, and RL? Use the @Mila_Quebec supervision request form to apply to openings under my supervision at the McGill Graphics Lab.
Mila's annual supervision request process opens on October 15 to receive MSc and PhD applications for Fall 2025 admission! Join our community! More information here https://t.co/r01eLcXtZw
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If you're interested in differentiable simulation, generative AI for 3D, or foundational computer graphics topics submit your application via Mila's supervision application process. To find out more, click here:
mila.quebec
Each student at Mila is supervised by one of our affiliated professors. Applicants are selected through the supervision request process.
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Excited to share our #SIGGRAPH2023 work on accelerating inverse rendering with ReSTIR. Since we render a sequence of frames during optimization, we can reuse samples from previous frames, just like in real-time rendering. 1/3 https://t.co/rSKNwHy4Mp
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Congratulations, @tyrell_turing !
Congratulations to @tyrell_turing, Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Montreal Neurological Institute at @mcgillu and Core Academic Member at Mila, for winning the Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship in 2022. Read article here ๐ https://t.co/xgQFmRwIN5
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Congratulations to @tyrell_turing, Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and the Montreal Neurological Institute at @mcgillu and Core Academic Member at Mila, for winning the Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship in 2022. Read article here ๐ https://t.co/xgQFmRwIN5
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AWESOME colleagues, great city, no brainer, apply!
Announcing a tenure track opening at McGill's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in Applied Artificial Intelligence in Engineering (defined broadly, includes computer vision and medical image analysis): https://t.co/v00ulpDVsm
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Announcing a tenure track opening at McGill's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in Applied Artificial Intelligence in Engineering (defined broadly, includes computer vision and medical image analysis): https://t.co/v00ulpDVsm
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Andrea @taiyasaki is an inspiring researcher and a fantastic person to boot! Iโd jump at the chance to join his group, if I was starting in this field again today.
Considering a PhD? Interested in 3D deep learning, neural scene representations, NeRFs, and applications to robotics and graphics? Come to Vancouver, ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐จ๐ง ๐
๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ (SFU) Deadline is ๐๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ Apply here: https://t.co/2xPZWVPNEP
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I can spot the imposter :)
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Iโm presenting a janky last-minute-made poster on my #NeurIPS2022 paper, โAttention-based Neural Cellular Automataโ https://t.co/awqZlfmaWB Hall J #914 Come say hi, Iโm dressed colourfully ๐จ
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I am so honoured and grateful to receive this award from @NSERC_CRSNG. NSERC has been a constant pillar of support in my career, from grad school to today, and this fellowship will help me and my group push hard on our most exciting ideas. So, thank you NSERC, and stay tuned!
๐ Blake Richards @mcgillu wins an Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship in recognition of outstanding contributions to the fields of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. โถ๏ธ https://t.co/nOIYROPhMJ
@tyrell_turing #NSERC_Prizes
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Where there's smoke there's Torch ๐ฅ Our new tool from Ubisoft La Forge simulates smoke, fire, and other liquids for a more immersive and realistic experience in games. Hear more about what Torch does and how our teams are on the cutting-edge!
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Doina Precup, associate dean of research at @mcgillu faculty of science and Joelle Pineau, a core academic member at Mila, have been considered as two pioneers for #womeninAI in Canada Read the article ๐
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We are hiring! Interested in working on #DeepLearning for image-based #PersonalizedMedicine? We are looking for PhD candidates to join @PVG_McGill @McGill_CIM @mcgillu @Mila_Quebec under the supervision of @arbtal. Starting date: January 2023. 1/3
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We're hiring for a teaching stream position in CS here at McGill! Please RT! ๐ https://t.co/IYNhfKpmXT
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A Dataset and Explorer for 3D Signed Distance Functions, JCGT'22 @yongyuanxi/@AndrewGlassner/@casualeffects Normalized, optimized, & categorized analytic SDFs + sample point sets. Perf. benchmarks, NeRF/DeepSDF-style AI without error from meshes, etc. https://t.co/9qAECc21Pv
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Learning to guide and to be guided without common ground: a new machine learning paradigm? See @paulbbarde @ @karch_tristan's talk on our #ICLR2022 paper studying the architect-builder problem ๐ https://t.co/23HJX24drq ๐บ
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