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SUMMARY:SIGGRAPH 2025 | NVIDIA Research Special Address: Sanja Fidler, Aar
 on Lefohn, Ming-Yu Liu
DESCRIPTION:Sanja Fidler, Aaron Lefohn, and Ming-Yu Liu (NVIDIA)\n\nJoin u
 s for the special address with NVIDIA Research leaders Sanja Fidler, Aaron
  Lefohn, and Ming-Yu Liu as they chart the next frontier of graphics and s
 imulation.\n\nToday, AI is transforming computer graphics — and computer g
 raphics are driving the next generation of AI.\n\nSanja, Aaron, and Ming-Y
 u will showcase the latest breakthroughs in computer graphics technologies
 , from neural rendering and materials to world foundation models. Plus, ex
 plore the new opportunities and applications these capabilities are unlock
 ing across media, automotive, manufacturing, and robotics.\n\nAbout the Sp
 eakers\nSanja Fidler is vice president of AI research at NVIDIA, leading t
 he company’s Spatial Intelligence Lab. She is also an associate professor 
 at the University of Toronto, and an affiliate faculty member at the Vecto
 r Institute, which she co-founded. Fidler co-authored over 130 scientific 
 papers in the fields of computer vision, machine learning and NLP. She has
  served as Area Chair for a variety of conferences, including the Conferen
 ce on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), International Confer
 ence in Computer Vision (ICCV), the Conference on Empirical Methods in Nat
 ural Language Processing (EMNLP), the International Conference on Learning
  Representations (ICLR), the Conference on Neural Information Processing S
 ystems (NeurIPS), and SIGGRAPH.\n\nFidler has received the NVIDIA Pioneer 
 of AI Award, Amazon Academic Research Award, Facebook Faculty Award, Early
  Researcher Award, University of Toronto’s Innovation Award, and the Conna
 ught New Researcher Award. In 2018, she was appointed as the Canadian CIFA
 R AI Chair. She has also been ranked among the top three most influential 
 AI female researchers in Canada by Re-WORK, was named in Globe and Mail’s 
 Changemakers in 2025, and was listed in the top people in AI in 2023 by th
 e Business Insider. With her co-workers, she received the Best Paper Honor
 able Mention award at CVPR’17, SIGGRAPH 2023, and Best Paper Award at SIGG
 RAPH Asia 2023. Her main research interests are in spatial intelligence: 3
 D content creation, spatial understanding, and simulation for robotics.\n\
 nAaron Lefohn is vice president of graphics research at NVIDIA, overseeing
  teams focused on rendering, AI graphics, and graphics systems. His teams’
  inventions have played key roles in bringing path tracing to real-time gr
 aphics and pioneering real-time AI computer graphics. Recent NVIDIA produc
 ts derived from his teams’ inventions include DLSS, RTX Path Tracing, RTX 
 Dynamic Illumination, Neural Shading, the Slang shading language, and more
 .\n\nAaron has led real-time rendering and graphics programming model rese
 arch teams for over 15 years and has productized many inventions into game
 s, professional graphics software, GPU hardware, and GPU graphics APIs.\n\
 nAaron holds a Ph.D. in computer science from UC Davis and an M.S. in comp
 uter science from the University of Utah.\n\nMing-Yu Liu is a vice preside
 nt of research at NVIDIA and a fellow of IEEE. He leads the Deep Imaginati
 on Research group at NVIDIA, which currently focuses on Generative AI for 
 Physical AI. His research team has helped create several new product categ
 ories for NVIDIA, including NVIDIA Cosmos, a developer-first world foundat
 ion model platform for Physical AI; NVIDIA Edify, a family of Generative A
 I models that powers Getty Images and Shutterstock’s GenAI services; NVIDI
 A Canvas [GauGAN], a real-time painting tool that uses GANs to turn simple
  brushstrokes into photorealistic images; and NVIDIA Maxine [LivePortrait]
 , an AI-first cloud-native video streaming platform. His research group pu
 blishes scientific papers in top-tier AI conferences regularly, including 
 NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, and SIGGRAPH. Several of their pape
 rs have received prestigious awards.\n\nRecording: Livestreamed, Recorded\
 n\nRegistration Category: Full Conference, Virtual Access, Experience, Exh
 ibits Only, Monday\n\n
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