- Youming Deng, Songyou Peng, Junyi Zhang, Kathryn Heal, Tiancheng Sun, John Flynn, Steve Marschner, and Lucy Chai. 2026. Selfi: Self Improving Reconstruction Engine via 3D Geometric Feature Alignment. arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.08930. Oral presentation at CVPR 2026.
- Tooba Imtiaz, Lucy Chai, Kathryn Heal, Xuan Luo, Jungyeon Park, Jennifer Dy, and John Flynn. 2025. LVT: Large-Scale Scene Reconstruction via Local View Transformers. In Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Papers (SA Conference Papers ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 196, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757377.3763838
- John Flynn, Michael Broxton, Lukas Murmann, Lucy Chai, Matthew DuVall, Clément Godard, Kathryn Heal, Srinivas Kaza, Stephen Lombardi, Xuan Luo, Supreeth Achar, Kira Prabhu, Tiancheng Sun, Lynn Tsai, and Ryan Overbeck. 2024. Quark: Real-time, High-resolution, and General Neural View Synthesis. ACM Trans. Graph. 43, 6, Article 194 (December 2024), 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687953 Received a best paper award at SIGGRAPH Asia.
- Our Selfi paper was accepted as an oral presentation at CVPR 2026! Congratulations Youming and Lucy!
- Google Beam is in the news again! https://encodedspace.com/articles/beam-true-presence/
- Serving as a reviewer for ECCV 2026, among conferences.
- Traveled to Hong Kong for our LVT paper at SIGGRAPH Asia, Dec 2025.
- Traveled to Tokyo for our Quark paper at SIGGRAPH Asia, Dec 2024.
- Demoed Google Beam at the Abundance360 conference in Palos Verdes, March 2025.
- PhD Applied Mathematics, Harvard University. 2020. Dissertation: A Lighting-Invariant Approach to Local Shape from Shading with Prof. Todd Zickler of Harvard SEAS. Applying algebraic geometry to solve classical problems in shape-from-shading and lighting invariance.
- BS Applied Mathematics, UCLA. 2014. Undergraduate Research: A parameterless scale-space approach to find meaningful modes in histograms — Application to image and spectrum segmentation with Prof. Jérôme Gilles of SDSU. Leveraging wavelets of customizable support to improve segmentation.
- Python: Jax, Flax, Linen.
- Agentic workflows: Gemini, Claude, Jetski, creating skills.md files, prompting, memory management.
- Mathematics: Magma, Mathematica.
- Illustration: Blender, Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop.
- Management: Leading this year’s Google Beam internship program.
Kathryn Heal, Ph.D. 