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Niloy J. Mitra

Niloy Mitra is a computer graphics researcher whose work spans 3D shape analysis and machine-learning methods for geometric content. He earned a bachelor’s degree at IIT Kharagpur and electrical-engineering degrees at Stanford, then held research and faculty posts in Vienna, Delhi, and KAUST before establishing his position at UCL in 2011. His papers include the 2007 SIGGRAPH work Symmetrization and the CLIP2StyleGAN preprint, which links CLIP and StyleGAN latent spaces to identify image-edit directions without human guidance. His work earned ACM SIGGRAPH and BCS awards, a Eurographics technical award and fellowship, and induction into the SIGGRAPH Academy in 2023. As of October 2026, he is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Research in London and leads its London Lab and UCL’s Smart Geometry Group.

Works
476
Citations
23,696
h-index
75
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. By 2006

    IIT Kharagpur and Stanford degrees

    He earns a bachelor’s degree from IIT Kharagpur. In 2002, he earns an MS in electrical engineering at Stanford; in September 2006, he completes his PhD there under Leonidas Guibas and Marc Levoy.

  2. By 2011

    Postdoc and faculty roles

    Before establishing his position at UCL in 2011, he works as a postdoctoral scholar at TU Vienna and as an assistant professor at IIT Delhi and KAUST. Helmut Pottmann advises his postdoctoral work.

  3. 2007

    Symmetrization at SIGGRAPH

    At SIGGRAPH in 2007, he coauthors Symmetrization with Leonidas Guibas and Mark Pauly. His research develops algorithms for detecting symmetry and structural regularity in 3D objects.

  4. 2013–2015

    SIGGRAPH and Needham awards

    In 2013, the ACM SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award recognizes his work on discovering and using structure and function in 3D objects. He receives the BCS Roger Needham Award in 2015.

  5. 2019

    A Eurographics technical award

    Eurographics presents him with its Outstanding Technical Contributions Award in 2019.

  6. 2021

    Eurographics fellowship and CLIP2StyleGAN

    Eurographics elects him a Fellow in 2021 for his contributions to shape analysis, data-driven geometry processing and computational fabrication. His work uses novel shape representations to explore collections and synthesize editable geometric content. In December 2021, he coauthors CLIP2StyleGAN, a preprint that links pretrained StyleGAN and CLIP latent spaces to identify semantically labeled image-edit directions without human guidance.

  7. 2023

    SIGGRAPH Academy induction

    He is inducted into the SIGGRAPH Academy in 2023.

  8. As of October 2026

    Principal Scientist at Adobe

    At Adobe Research, he is a Principal Scientist in London, runs the Adobe Research London Lab, and leads the Smart Geometry Group at University College London. His current research develops machine-learning frameworks that generate high-quality geometric and appearance models. In 2026, he coauthors the CVPR paper LoST, which orders 3D shape tokens by semantic salience.

Career

  1. Since 2019AdobePrincipal Scientist
  2. Since 2011University College LondonGroup Lead
  3. NowAdobe ResearchLab Lead
  4. 2015–2019University of London
  5. 2009–2011King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyAssistant Professor
  6. 2008–2011IIT DelhiAssistant Professor
  7. 2007–2011TU WienPostdoctoral Scholar

Education

  1. 2006Stanford UniversityPhD
  2. 2002Stanford UniversityMS in electrical engineering
  3. Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurBachelor’s degree

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Global contrast based salient region detection2011 · 3,044 citationsWith Ming‐Ming Cheng
  2. 4-points congruent sets for robust pairwise surface registration2008 · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 677 citations
  3. Super 4PCS Fast Global Pointcloud Registration via Smart Indexing2014 · Computer Graphics Forum · 624 citations
  4. Partial and approximate symmetry detection for 3D geometry2006 · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 529 citations
  5. StyleFlow: Attribute-conditioned Exploration of StyleGAN-Generated Images using Conditional Continuous Normalizing Flows2021 · ACM Transactions on Graphics · 433 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 21 October 2026.

  1. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes University College London. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  2. 20% of people at companies who shape AI also hold a university role, led by Google and Stanford UniversityIncludes University College London. We estimate that 539 of the 6,766 people with a known current organization (8%) hold both a university role and a company role, including 20% of people at companies and 13% of people at universities.
  3. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes University College London. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  4. Among employers with 30+ full-time cases, OpenAI leads primary technical role H-1B pay at $310,000, and Amazon, Google and Microsoft file 57% of all casesIncludes Adobe. Across 440,669 certified US H-1B filings from 44 employers (FY2020–FY2026), OpenAI leads primary technical role base pay at $310,000 and xAI leads overall base pay at $290,000.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Prof Niloy Mitra veiv.cs.ucl.ac.uk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Outstanding Technical Contributions Award 2019 – Niloy Mitra – Eurographics eg.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Symmetrization graphics.stanford.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. New Fellows 2021 – Eurographics eg.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. [2112.05219] CLIP2StyleGAN: Unsupervised Extraction of StyleGAN Edit Directions arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. STAG 2026 - PhD School stag-conference.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Adobe Research » Niloy J. Mitra research.adobe.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. CVPR 2026 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 21 October 2026.