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Qixing Huang

Also known as Qi-Xing Huang

Qixing Huang is a computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin whose research on 3D shapes sits at the intersection of graphics, vision and machine learning. He earned a Stanford PhD in 2012 under Leonidas Guibas, won the Symposium on Geometry Processing best paper award in 2013, and coauthored ShapeNet, the 3D model repository that received the symposium's dataset award in 2018. An IJCAI Early Career Spotlight followed in 2019, an NSF CAREER award in 2021, and tenure at Austin by 2023. In 2025 he coauthored RayZer, a self-supervised model that recovers camera parameters from unposed images and synthesizes novel views. He is an associate professor of computer science at UT Austin, where his recent focus is 3D generative models.

Timeline

  1. 2008–2012

    A Stanford PhD with Guibas

    He holds the Mr. and Mrs. Chin-Nan Chen Stanford Graduate Fellowship from 2008 to 2011. In 2012, he receives his PhD from Stanford University, working with Professor Leonidas Guibas.

  2. 2013

    Best paper on shape maps

    In 2013, he and Leonidas Guibas win the best paper award at the Symposium on Geometry Processing for Consistent Shape Maps via Semidefinite Programming.

  3. 2015–2018

    ShapeNet and a dataset award

    In 2015, he is among the authors of ShapeNet, a large repository of richly annotated 3D CAD models of objects organized under the WordNet taxonomy. ShapeNet receives the best dataset award at the Symposium on Geometry Processing in 2018.

  4. 2019–2020

    IJCAI spotlight and SGP co-chair

    In 2019, he receives an IJCAI Early Career Spotlight, and in 2020 he co-chairs the Symposium on Geometry Processing. His research sits at the intersection of graphics, geometry, optimization, vision and machine learning.

  5. 2021

    An NSF CAREER award

    A former research assistant professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, he is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at UT Austin when he receives an NSF CAREER award in 2021. The award funds work on characterizing the uncertainties of 3D sensors used to reconstruct, analyze and model 3D geometries, with studies in digital dental care, autonomous driving and digital archaeology.

  6. By 2023

    Tenure at UT Austin

    By 2023, he is an associate professor with tenure in the computer science department at the University of Texas at Austin, with more than 100 papers at leading venues.

  7. 2025

    RayZer view synthesis

    In 2025, he coauthors RayZer with Hanwen Jiang, Georgios Pavlakos and colleagues, a self-supervised multi-view 3D vision model trained without any 3D supervision. RayZer takes unposed and uncalibrated images, recovers camera parameters, reconstructs a scene representation and synthesizes novel views.

  8. As of October 2026

    Associate professor at UT Austin

    He is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. His recent focus is developing 3D generative models that enforce geometric, physical and topological priors and learn from both 3D and 2D data, to address limited 3D data and generalization.

Career

  1. Since 2021University of Texas at AustinAssistant Professor, Associate Professor
  2. Toyota Technological Institute at ChicagoResearch Assistant Professor

Education

  1. 2012Stanford UniversityPhD

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Qixing Huang. 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.
  2. Universities keep AI researchers for a median of 6 years, compared with 2 years at frontier labsIncludes University of Texas at Austin. Across 15,811 dated work stays (6,529 people), median role tenure runs from 6 years at universities to 2 years at frontier labs. We compare all five organization types, starting decades from the 1970s to the 2020s, and the organizations that keep people longest.
  3. 20% of people at companies who shape AI also hold a university role, led by Google and Stanford UniversityIncludes University of Texas at Austin. 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.
  4. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes University of Texas at Austin. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.

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  1. [Colloquium] Talks at TTIC: Qixing Huang, Stanford mailman.cs.uchicago.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Symposium on Geometry Processing - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. ShapeNet: An Information-Rich 3D Model Repository arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. AIR Seminar: Qixing Huang, Associate Professor | Rafik Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering bu.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. IDS Seminar: Geometric Regularizations for 3D Shape Generation - HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science datascience.hku.hk. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. Presenter | SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Sydney asia.siggraph.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. Three Natural Sciences Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards | College of Natural Sciences cns.utexas.edu. Checked 22 October 2026.
  8. [2505.00702] RayZer: A Self-supervised Large View Synthesis Model arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  9. Qixing Huang – ACM SIGGRAPH History Archives history.siggraph.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  10. huangqx (Qixing Huang) · GitHub github.com. Checked 22 October 2026.