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Youwang Kim

I am a research intern at NVIDIA Real-Time Graphics Research and a final-year Ph.D. student at POSTECH. I build photorealistic, interactive 3D/4D digital twins for next-generation content creation and physical AI. My current focus is neural material appearances and generative methods that combine large-scale generative models, reconstruction models, and neural representations.

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Selected Research

NeuMatEx material reconstruction results NeuMatExNVIDIA Tech Report'26Extracting neural materials from multi-view images ELITE Gaussian head avatar results ELITECVPR'26Lifelike animatable head avatars from selfie videos FiCA single-image avatar results FiCAMeta Tech Report'26Instant animatable head avatars from one selfie Paint-it text-to-texture synthesis results Paint-itCVPR'24PBR texture map synthesis from text prompt

Experience

Meta Codec Avatars LabResearch Scientist InternPittsburgh, PA, US Oct '24 - Mar '25
Managers: Yaser Sheikh, Chen Cao
University of TübingenVisiting Ph.D. StudentTübingen, Germany Oct '23 - Mar '24
Advisor: Gerard Pons-Moll
POSTECHPh.D. CandidatePohang, Korea Sep '20 - Feb '27 (Exp.)
Advisor: Tae-Hyun Oh

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