Hi there, I'm
Jian Shi
Computer Vision Researcher · I build
PhD Candidate @ KAUST · Co-founder of Kornia
🎓 Graduating 2026 — open to research-scientist / postdoc roles
I'm a final-year PhD candidate at KAUST (graduating 2026), advised by Prof. Peter Wonka, and a co-founder & core maintainer of Kornia — one of the most widely used open-source differentiable computer vision libraries built on PyTorch.
My research integrates geometric reasoning into generative AI for 3D perception and immersive visual computing, with a particular emphasis on stereo video synthesis — teaching machines to see, reconstruct, and synthesize the 3D world.
Updates
News
- 2026.09 New preprint: Disparity Has a Sign — stereo matching beyond the zero-disparity plane, with the ZDPShift benchmark. Project page · arXiv.
- 2026.05 DissolveStereo accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2026 (Journal Track, ACM TOG).
- 2026.05 ImmersePro accepted to ICML 2026.
- 2026.02 Any Resolution Any Geometry accepted to CVPR 2026.
- 2025.09 Invited talk on Agentic Computer Vision with Kornia at GOSIM Hangzhou 2025.
- 2025.06 Two papers — VoxelKP and Amodal Depth Anything — accepted to ICCV 2025.
- 2025.06 Received the Dean's List Award from KAUST. 🎓
Research
Publications
Peer-reviewed and preprint work, newest first. See also my Google Scholar profile.
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2019
Neurophoton.
AI Deep Learning Algorithm for Discriminating Ungradable OCT 3D Optic Disc Scans
Neurophotonics, 2019
Open Source
Open Source Leadership & Impact
Co-founder & core maintainer of Kornia · since 2020
We are actively looking for industrial and research collaborations, as well as funding, to grow Kornia and advance open-source computer vision. If you'd like to partner, sponsor, or build on top of it, I'd love to talk.
11k+ GitHub stars 3M+ monthly downloads 100M+ total downloads
- Kornia ↗ Differentiable computer vision for PyTorch
- Kornia-rs ↗ Low-level 3D computer vision in Rust
Activities
- May 2026 Google Summer of Code — Org Admin & Mentor Kornia · GSoC ↗
- May 2025 Rust for Robotics (R4R) Workshop — Kornia-rs ICRA 2025
- May 2025 Google Summer of Code — Org Admin & Mentor Kornia · GSoC ↗
Talks & Tutorials 6
- Sep 2025 Accessible Agentic Computer Vision with Kornia GOSIM Hangzhou 2025 · Website ↗
- Jun 2025 ONNXSequential: Seamless ONNX Model Composition in Kornia PyTorch Day China 2025
- Jun 2025 Bubbaloop 101: Turn Your Phone into a Security Camera in 10 Minutes Scientific Computing in Rust 2025 · Tutorial · Website ↗
- Apr 2022 Accelerate Your Data Augmentation Pipeline with Kornia FOSSASIA Summit · YouTube ↗
- Dec 2021 Kornia AI: Low-Level Computer Vision for AI PyTorch Developer Day 2021
- Dec 2020 Differentiable Data Augmentation with Kornia NeurIPS 2020 Workshop · SlidesLive ↗
Background
Experience & Education
Experience
- 2021 — 2022
Associate Researcher II
NEC Laboratories China
- 2018 — 2020
Research Assistant
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2017-2018
Intern / Thesis Research
GE Power
Education
- 2022 — 2026
Ph.D., Computer Science
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
- 2016 — 2018
M.Sc. Cloud Computing — Distinction (First-Class Honours)
University of Leicester
- 2011 — 2015
B.M., Information Management and Information Systems
Zhengzhou University of Aeronautics
Inventions
Patents
- Issued Nov 2022 Display screen panel with dynamic electronic endoscopy graphical user interface CN307670607S
- Filed Mar 2022 · pending Data processing method and electronic device US2023289660A1 · JP7501703B2 · CN116776137A
Get in touch
Let's talk
I'm always happy to connect about research collaborations, open-source work, or opportunities. Email is the fastest way to reach me.