George Drettakis

George Drettakis is a Senior Researcher at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis and leads the GRAPHDECO research group. He has held professorial roles at institutions including MIT, University of Reims, University of Toronto, and École Normale Supérieure. His research focuses on rendering for computer graphics and sound, with emphasis on image-based rendering, perceptual rendering, and audio-visual cross-modal effects. He has also explored interactive illumination, shadows, relighting, and generative models.

• Current Students: G. Kopanas (Neural Rendering), N. Violante (Generative Models), A. Petitjean (co-supervised), Y. Poirier-Ginter (co-supervised), P. Panantonakis (starting fall 2023).
• Postdoctoral Researchers: A. Gauthier at INRIA.

His recent work includes 3D Gaussian Splatting, Diffusion-based Relighting, and Neural Radiance Fields. He has received the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award (2007) and was named an Eurographics Fellow.

He manages projects like ERC Advanced Grant FUNGRAPH and has participated in H2020 EMOTIVE, ANR SEMAPOLIS, and CROSSMOD. His group collaborates internationally and has hosted researchers from institutions such as UC Berkeley, Imperial College London, and TU Wien.