Niloy J. Mitra

Niloy J. Mitra is a Professor of Geometry Processing at the Department of Computer Science, University College London (UCL). He holds a MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, with postdoctoral research at Technical University Vienna. His research focuses on shape analysis, geometry processing, computational fabrication, and neural rendering. Notable contributions include work on structure-aware 3D representations and data-driven methods for scene understanding. Mitra has received prestigious awards such as the ACM Siggraph Significant New Researcher Award (2013) and the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contributions Award (2019). He leads the SmartGeometryProcessing research group and has authored over 150 papers in top venues like SIGGRAPH and CVPR. His service roles include chairing conferences like Symposium on Geometry Processing and serving on editorial boards for journals like ACM Transactions on Graphics. Mitra's work bridges computer graphics, machine learning, and geometry, with applications in 3D modeling, animation, and generative AI.

Education: PhD in Electrical Engineering (Stanford University, 2006), MS in Electrical Engineering (Stanford University, 2003), B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering (IIT Kharagpur, 1999).

Research interests include neural rendering, diffusion models for 3D generation, and procedural modeling. His lab develops tools like ShapeLib and Diff3F for 3D content creation. Awards also include the ERC Starting Grant (2013) and Eurographics Fellowship (2021). Mitra's hobbies include rock climbing, cooking, and reading, with a focus on technical and fiction literature.