China-Israel Symposium on Emerging Graphics Technologies-CAD/Graphics 2025

China-Israel Symposium on Emerging Graphics Technologies

Workshop Chair

Hui Huang

Shenzhen University

Speakers

Daniel Cohen-OrTel Aviv-Yafo

Biography: Daniel Cohen-Or is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University, an ACM Fellow, and The Isaias Nizri Chair in Visual Computing. His research focuses on computer graphics, visual computing, and geometric modeling, with recent interests in generative models. He is a recipient of the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award and the Eurographics Distinguished Career Award, among numerous other honors recognizing his impactful contributions to the field.

Dani LischinskiHebrew University of Jerusalem

Biography: Dani Lischinski is a Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research spans computer graphics, computational photography, and image and video processing, with recent focus on deep learning for visual editing. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington. In 2002, he spent a sabbatical at Pixar Animation Studios. He is a recipient of the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award and served as the Technical Papers Chair for SIGGRAPH Asia 2017.

Gal ChechikBar-Ilan University, NVIDIA

Biography: Gal Chechik is a Senior Director of AI Research at NVIDIA, leading the company’s research efforts in Israel, and a Professor of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University. His work focuses on deep learning, computer vision, and the intersection of perception, action, and reasoning. Previously, he was a Staff Research Scientist at Google and a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gal has published over 140 papers, holds 50 patents, and has received outstanding paper awards at NeurIPS and ICML.

Title: A "System 2" in Visual Generative AI

Andrei SharfBen Gurion University

Biography: Andrei Sharf is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University. His research focuses on computer graphics, with an emphasis on geometry processing, 3D modeling, and deep learning. He has worked extensively on 3D scanning and point cloud reconstruction. He received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Davis. Prior to joining Ben-Gurion University, he was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), China.

Title: Learning Thin 3D Structure Reconstructions

Haggai MaronTechnion Israel Institute of Technology, Nvidia

Biography: Haggai Maron is an Assistant Professor at the Technion’s Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research in Tel Aviv. His research focuses on deep learning for structured data, including sets, graphs, point clouds, and surfaces, with a particular interest in symmetry and equivariant architectures. He aims to bridge theoretical insights with practical applications in machine learning. Haggai completed his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Prof. Yaron Lipman.

Chaoqi ChenShenzhen University

Biography: Chaoqi Chen is an Assistant Professor at the College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, supported by the “Hundred Talents Program.” His research focuses on advancing open-world visual language foundation models, with emphasis on adaptability, generalization, and robustness. Key areas include cross-domain inference, causality-inspired learning, and unsupervised domain adaptation. Chaoqi has published over 20 papers in top venues such as IEEE TPAMI, CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, and AAAI, and actively mentors students and researchers in cutting-edge AI technologies.

Tianjia ShaoZhejiang University

Biography: Tianjia Shao is a ZJU100 Young Professor at the State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University. His research focuses on 3D content acquisition, reconstruction, and generation, including real-time dense SLAM, high-quality offline 3D reconstruction, autonomous robot-based reconstruction, digital human creation, and 3D AI-generated content (AIGC). He earned his Ph.D. from Tsinghua University under Prof. Baining Guo and has held positions at the University of Leeds and Microsoft Research Asia. During his Ph.D., he was a visiting researcher at University College London with Prof. Niloy Mitra.

Taijiang MuTsinghua University

Biography: Taijiang Mu is currently a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. He received his BS degree and Ph.D. degeree from Tsinghua University in 2011 and 2016, respectively. His research interests are in Computer Graphics and Computer Vision, especially focused on 3D reconstruction and generation. He has published over 50 papers in important international conferences and journals, among which three papers have been selected as ESI hot papers. He won the first "Zu Chongzhi" Award. Currently, he serves as an editorial board member of The Visual Computer and VCIBA.

Ye PanShanghai Jiao Tong University

Biography: Ye Pan is an Associate Professor at the John Hopcroft Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her research focuses on AR/VR, avatars and characters, 3D animation, human-computer interaction, and computer graphics. Previously, she was an Associate Research Scientist at Disney Research Los Angeles. She earned her B.Sc. in Communication and Information Engineering from Purdue/UESTC in 2010 and her Ph.D. in Computer Graphics from University College London in 2015. Ye has served as Associate Editor for the International Journal of Human Computer Studies and as a regular member of IEEE Virtual Reality program committees.

Pannel Disucssion

Pannel topic: Intelligence, Collaboration, and the Next Frontiers of Graphics

Panelist:

Prof. Shimin Hu, Prof. Kun Zhou, Prof. Hui Huang, and the 9 speakers

Moderator: Mengyu Chu