I’m a PhD candidate at University of California, Santa Cruz, advised by professor James Davis, and co-advised by professor Alex Pang. I received my Bachelor degree of Electronic Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Research interests

Generative 3D/4D for riggable avatars — text/vision-conditioned 3D/4D generation, semantic meaningful 4D deformation, feed forward deformable Gaussian splatting, and real-time retargeting for animals & humans.

Current Research

Feed forward animal head blendshapes via human conditioned registration and real-time retargeting

3D human reconstruction with multiple in-the-wild images

Selected Publications

SplatFace: Gaussian Splat Face Reconstruction Leveraging an Optimizable Surface
Jiahao Luo, Chaoyang Wang, Michael Vasilkovsky, Vladislav Shakhrai, Di Liu, Peiye Zhuang, Sergey Tulyakov, Peter Wonka, Hsin-Ying Lee, James Davis, Jian Wang
ICCV 2025
[Paper]

SplatFace: Gaussian Splat Face Reconstruction Leveraging an Optimizable Surface
Jiahao Luo, Jing Liu, James Davis
WACV 2025 Oral
[Paper]

Snapmoji: Instant Generation of Animatable Dual-Stylized Avatars
Eric Ming Chen, Di Liu, Sizhuo Ma, Michael Vasilkovsky, Bing Zhou, Qiang Gao, Wenzhou Wang, Jiahao Luo, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Vincent Sitzmann, Jian Wang
[Paper]

Disjoint pose and shape for 3D face reconstruction
Raja Kumar’, Jiahao Luo’, Alex Pang, James Davis
ICCV workshop 2023
[Paper]

How much does input data type impact final face model accuracy?
Jiahao Luo, Fahim Hasan Khan, Issei Mori, James Davis, etc.
CVPR 2022 Oral
[Paper]

How Accurate Is Passive Stereo For 3d Face Reconstruction?
Jiahao Luo, Eric Sandoval Ruezga, James Davis
ICIP 2022
[Paper]

Duelgan: a duel between two discriminators stabilizes the gan training
Jiaheng Wei, Minghao Liu, Jiahao Luo, Andrew Zhu, James Davis, Yang Liu
ECCV 2022
[Paper]

Low-light Image Enhancement Using Chain-consistent Adversarial Networks
Minghao Liu, Jiahao Luo, Xiaohan Zhang, Yang Liu, James Davis
ICPR 2022
[Paper]