Research
I work on computer graphics, neural rendering, and generative models, with a focus on extracting and synthesizing physically meaningful material appearance from images and videos. My recent research studies how generative video models can be used as material priors for 3D asset creation.
Started a research internship at NVIDIA; Motion Aware Video Generation Model was accepted to ICML 2026.
Launched the VideoNeuMat project page and personal academic homepage.
VideoNeuMat appears at ACM SIGGRAPH 2026.
PBR-Inspired Controllable Diffusion for Image Generation appears in Computer Graphics Forum, Eurographics 2026.
ACM SIGGRAPH 2026
VideoNeuMat reconstructs neural materials from generative video observations, enabling high-resolution appearance, relighting, and geometry-aware material transfer for graphics workflows.
Bowen Xue, Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera, Shuang Zhao, Zahra Montazeri
ICML 2026
Bowen Xue, Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera, Shuang Zhao, Zahra Montazeri
Computer Graphics Forum, Eurographics 2026
May 2026 - Present
Research intern working on graphics, neural rendering, and generative models.
Apr 2025 - Apr 2026
Research intern on facial subsurface scattering, Monte Carlo rendering, and diffusion-based inverse modeling.
Nov 2023 - Dec 2024
Autonomous vehicle testing and research internship.
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
GPU-enabled wide-bandwidth RF sensor for an AI anti-drone platform.
Sep 2022 - Present
Sep 2019 - Dec 2020
Sep 2014 - Jul 2018
Reviewer for Eurographics, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, and Swarm and Evolutionary Computation.
Graduate teaching assistant at the University of Manchester. GTA Teaching Award, 2024.
Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK.
Last updated: May 2026.