NeRF Service — photos → 3D on a GPU
A live web service that turns a set of overlapping photos into a 3D Gaussian-splat scene, rendered on a GPU.
Work
/ Projects
Drawing Conclusions: Representation or Reasoning in New Yorker Caption Matching
A controlled study of whether stronger representations or candidate-level reasoning closes the human–model gap on New Yorker cartoon caption matching — across CLIP baselines, gated cross-attention, and frontier vision–language models.
Neural-CAD-Edit
An expert benchmark for multimodal-instructed 3D CAD model editing — evaluation infrastructure that gates frontier-model launches across text-, image-, and sketch-to-CAD.
Persona — Real-Time Digital Humans
Few-shot photorealistic co-presence: a Beta-VAE 3D morphable model, contrastive identity recognition, and the capture systems behind it — 10M+ photos, 500K+ scans.
Avatar
Lead R&D Technical Director at Weta Digital in Wellington for James Cameron's Avatar — part of the team behind the Academy Award–winning effects that brought Pandora to the screen.
Industrial Light & Magic
Nine years in feature-film visual effects at ILM — from the Star Wars prequels through The Perfect Storm, A.I., War of the Worlds, and Pirates of the Caribbean — based at the Kerner Optical Research Lab.
