Generative AI is going to play a crucial role in building the embodied internet, aka Metaverse. Democratizing the metaverse would imply giving every creator a set of tools to dream up and build their own immersive canvas that they can share with others. In this talk, I will discuss the challenges and opportunities in generative AI for synthesizing 3D objects, creating/editing digital twins, building virtual worlds, and accelerating the synthesis pipeline.
Vikas Chandra
Vikas Chandra is Senior Director at Meta Reality Labs where he works on AI research focusing on AR and VR products. Prior to Meta, he was Director of Applied Machine Learning at Arm Inc. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He held the positions of Visiting Scholar (2011 – 2014) and Visiting Faculty (2016 - 2017) in the EE department at Stanford University. He has authored 120+ research publications and is an inventor on 40+ US and international patents. Dr. Chandra received the ACM-SIGDA Technical Leadership Award in 2009 and was invited to the 2017 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE.