Xiaoxu Meng

Xiaoxu Meng is a skilled research scientist at Tencent America, focusing on 3D reconstruction, zero-shot 3D generation, neural radiance field (NeRF), and gaussian splatting since February 2021. Prior experience includes a software engineer internship at Google, where Xiaoxu contributed to the DRACO library for 3D mesh compression, and a research internship at Facebook Reality Labs, implementing a convolutional neural network for 3D hand shape and pose prediction. Xiaoxu has also worked as a research assistant at the University of Maryland, exploring 3D reconstruction and neural network denoising techniques. Educational credentials encompass a PhD in Computer Graphics from the University of Maryland, as well as an MS from the same institution and a Bachelor's in Microelectronics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Currently, Xiaoxu serves as a research engineer at Meta, focusing on the Codec Avatar project, which aims to enhance social presence in the Metaverse.