About
My name is Dan (Alaina) Wang, and I am a Postdoc at the University of California San Diego, where I am advised by Professor Ravi Ramamoorthi. Previously, I worked at the University of Copenhagen in association with the AI Pioneer Centre, where I was advised by Professor Serge Belongie. I received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, where I was supervised by Professor Z. Jane Wang and Professor Tim Salcudean. I obtained my Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Beihang University.
My research interests lie at the intersection of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Computer Graphics, with a focus on developing advanced AI techniques that enable machines to perceive, understand, and synthesize complex visual environments. Throughout my academic journey, I have cultivated deep expertise across multiple dimensions of these fields. My doctoral research advanced the state-of-the-art in 3D computer vision and explainable AI. Currently, I am particularly interested in pushing the boundaries of neural 3D representations, photorealistic rendering, generative models for visual content creation, and interpretable AI systems. By bridging perception and synthesis, I aim to develop AI systems that not only understand complex 3D scenes with human-like accuracy but can also generate and manipulate visual content in ways that are both powerful and transparent to users.
News
Sep. 2025: One paper accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia 2025.
May 2024: One paper accepted to ICML 2024.
Mar. 2024: One paper accepted to CVPR 2024.
Honors and Awards:
- NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2023-2025)
- International Doctoral Fellowship (2018-2023)
- Faculty of Applied Science Graduate Awards for five consecutive years(2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
- President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Awards for three consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022)
- Special UBC Graduate Scholarship (2018)
- Excellent Graduation Thesis for Master’s Degree