Ren Li

Incoming Tenure-track Assistant Professor (Starting July 2026)
Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

I am a Postdoc in MBZUAI, working with Prof. Hao Li. I received my Ph.D. from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), advised by Prof. Pascal Fua. Prior to that, I obtained my M.S. from Purdue University in 2019, and my B.S. from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2016.

My research focuses on 3D vision and digitization, with particular emphasis on 3D object representation and reconstruction, geometric computing, and physics-based simulation. I am interested in integrating geometric modeling, optimization and data-driven approaches to develop efficient and interpretable methods for understanding, modeling and generating complex 3D objects and scenes.
Ren Li

📢 Openings / 招生信息

I am actively recruiting Research Assistants, Master's and PhD students with strong backgrounds in mathematics or physics, as well as solid programming skills. Visiting students are also welcome. If you are interested, please feel free to contact me with your CV and a brief research statement.

News

May. 2025 [SIGGRAPH, 2025] - Single View Garment Reconstruction Using Diffusion Mapping Via Pattern Coordinates.
Sept. 2024 [NeurIPS, 2024] - Reconstruction of Manipulated Garment with Guided Deformation Prior.
Feb. 2024 [CVPR, 2024] - Garment Recovery with Shape and Deformation Priors.
Sept. 2023 [NeurIPS, 2023] - ISP: Multi-Layered Garment Draping with Implicit Sewing Patterns.
Feb. 2023 [CVPR, 2023] - DrapeNet: Garment Generation and Self-Supervised Draping.

Selected Publications

Single View Garment Reconstruction Using Diffusion Mapping Via Pattern Coordinates
Ren Li, Cong Cao, Corentin Dumery, Yingxuan You, Hao Li, Pascal Fua
SIGGRAPH 2025
Reconstruction of Manipulated Garment with Guided Deformation Prior
Ren Li, Corentin Dumery, Zhantao Deng, Pascal Fua
NeurIPS 2024
Garment Recovery with Shape and Deformation Priors
Ren Li, Corentin Dumery, Benoît Guillard, Pascal Fua
CVPR 2024
ISP: Multi-Layered Garment Draping with Implicit Sewing Patterns
Ren Li, Benoît Guillard, Pascal Fua
NeurIPS 2023
DrapeNet: Garment Generation and Self-Supervised Draping
Luca De Luigi*, Ren Li*, Benoît Guillard, Mathieu Salzmann, Pascal Fua (* Equal Contribution)
CVPR 2023
Hierarchical Kinematic Human Mesh Recovery
Georgios Georgakis*, Ren Li*, Srikrishna Karanam, Terrence Chen, Jana Kosecka, Ziyan Wu (* Equal Contribution)
ECCV 2020