I am a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles advised by Prof. Achuta Kadambi. Previously, I obtained my M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 2021, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. John Wright. I received my B.E. in Electronic Information Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2019.
My research interests include computer vision, computational imaging and generative AI. Currently, I am focusing on 3D vision using both neural (implicit) and physical (explicit) representations. I am also actively collaborating with the groups of Prof. Leonidas Guibas at Stanford University and Prof. Atlas Wang at University of Texas at Austin.
I joined 
as a Student Researcher in Summer 2024.
🔥 News
- 2024.09: One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
- 2024.07: One paper accepted to ECCV 2024.
- 2024.04: Feature 3DGS was selected as a Highlight paper at CVPR 2024 (2.8% of 11532 submissions)! 🎉
- 2024.02: One paper accepted to CVPR 2024.
- 2023.02: One paper accepted to CVPR 2023.
- 2021.09: Awarded Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award from UCLA.
- 2020.06: Awarded MS Honors Student from Columbia University.
📝 Selected Publications
* indicates equal contribution
DreamScene360: Unconstrained Text-to-3D Scene Generation with Panoramic Gaussian Splatting
Shijie Zhou*, Zhiwen Fan*, Dejia Xu*, Haoran Chang, Pradyumna Chari, Tejas Bharadwaj, Suya You, Zhangyang Wang, Achuta Kadambi
- We introduce a 3D scene generation pipeline that creates immersive scenes with full 360$^{\circ}$ coverage from text prompts of any level of specificity.
Feature 3DGS: Supercharging 3D Gaussian Splatting to Enable Distilled Feature Fields
Shijie Zhou, Haoran Chang*, Sicheng Jiang*, Zhiwen Fan, Zehao Zhu, Dejia Xu, Pradyumna Chari, Suya You, Zhangyang Wang, Achuta Kadambi
Paper | Project (CVPR 2024 Highlight)
- Feature 3DGS 🪄, distills feature fields from 2D foundation models, opening the door to a brand new semantic, editable, and promptable explicit 3D scene representation.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2021 Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award, UCLA
- 2020 MS Honors Student, Columbia University
- 2019 Outstanding Graduate, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- 2018 James Watt Scholar, University of Glasgow
💻 Experience
- 2024.06 - now, Student Researcher at Google
- 2023.06 - 2023.09, Visiting Academic at USC Institute for Creative Technologies
📖 Teaching
- Teaching Assistant @ UCLA: ECE188 Computer Vision, ECE113 Digital Signal Processing
- Teaching Assistant @ Columbia: EECS6690 Statistical Learning, ELEN6885 Reinforcement Learning
- Teaching Assistant @ UoG & UESTC: 1008 Microelectronic Systems, 3010 Team Design Project and Skills
🖋️ Services
- Conference Reviewer: ICLR 2025, 3DV 2025, NeurIPS 2024, ECCV 2024
- Journal Reviewer: Pattern Recognition
- Workshop Reviewer: AI for 3D Generation @ CVPR 2024, AI for 3D Content Creation @ ICCV 2023