Nima Kalantari

Educational Background

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California in Santa Barbara – 2015
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology – 2009
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology – 2007

Outstanding Reviewer Award, CVPR – 2025
Frontiers of Science Award, “Local Light Field Fusion,” International Congress of Basic Science – 2024
TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award – 2024
NSF CAREER Award – 2023

Avinash Paliwal, Xilong Zhou, Andrii Tsarov, and Nima Khademi Kalantari, "Panodreamer: Optimization-based single image to 360 3D scene with diffusion," In SIGGRAPH Asia 2025, New York, NY, USA, 2025. Association for Computing Machinery.
Avinash Paliwal, Xilong Zhou, Wei Ye, Jinhui Xiong, Rakesh Ranjan, and Nima Khademi Kalantari, "RI3D: Few-shot gaussian splatting with repair and inpainting diffusion priors," In ICCV 2025, 2025.
Pedro Figueiredo, Qihao He, Steve Bako, and Nima Khademi Kalantari, "Neural importance sampling of many lights," In SIGGRAPH 2025, New York, NY, USA, 2025. Association for Computing Machinery.
Avinash Paliwal, Wei Ye, Jinhui Xiong, Dmytro Kotovenko, Rakesh Ranjan, Vikas Chandra, and Nima Khademi Kalantari, "CoherentGS: Sparse novel view synthesis with coherent 3D Gaussians," In ECCV 2024, page 19–37, 2024.
Xilong Zhou, Milos Hasan, Valentin Deschaintre, Paul Guerrero, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Kalyan Sunkavalli, and Nima Khademi Kalantari, "Photomat: A material generator learned from single flash photos," In SIGGRAPH 2023, New York, NY, USA, 2023. Association for Computing Machinery.