Yawar Siddiqui
yawarnihal[at]gmail[dot]com
Hi! I’m Yawar. I am a Research Scientist at Reality Labs, Meta in Munich. I did my PhD at the Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence group of Prof. Matthias Niessner at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. My work focuses on 3D reconstruction, scene understanding and 3D generative models.
Before my PhD, I did a Masters in Informatics at TUM, Germany, and my Bachelors in Computer Science at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India, graduating with high distinction and at the top of the class respectively.
In the past, I have worked with Adobe Systems in India as a software engineer. During my time at TUM, I’ve had the pleasure of interning with Thabo Beeler and Derek Bradley at Disney Research in Zurich, with Peter Konschieder at Meta Reality Labs also in Zurich, and with Andrea Vedaldi, David Novotny, Roman Shapovalov and Natalia Nevarova at GenAI, Meta in London.
Research
Invited Talks
- [Google Munich, September 2024] Creating Relightable 3D Assets in Less Than a Minute
- [Autodesk AI, July 2024] 3D Content Creation using Reconstruction and Generation
- [CVPR 3DMV Workshop, June 2024] MeshGPT: Generating Triangle Meshes with Decoder-Only Transformers
- [Apple, 3D Reconstruction Team, December 2023] MeshGPT: Generating Triangle Meshes with Decoder-Only Transformers
- [Talking Papers Podcast, July 2023] Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding with Neural Fields
- [CVPR Workshop for Compositional 3D Vision, June 2023] Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding with Neural Fields
- [CVPR Workshop for Scene Understanding, June 2023] Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding with Neural Fields
- [HiGraphics, February 2023] Panoptic Lifting for 3D Scene Understanding with Neural Fields