Thomas Funkhouser David M. Siegel Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus Princeton University

How to Reach Me:

funk@cs.princeton.edu

Princeton Computer Vision Group

Princeton Computer Graphics Group

Department of Computer Science

Princeton University

Note: I am not taking new students

Recent Publications (here is a full list of publications):

• Boyang Deng, Songyou Peng, Kyle Genova, Gordon Wetzstein, Noah Snavely, Leonidas Guibas, Thomas Funkhouser,
  Visual Chronicles: Using Multimodal LLMs to Analyze Massive Collections of Images,
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), (arXiv 2504.08727 [cs.CV]), October 2025.
   
• Anh Thai, Songyou Peng, Kyle Genova, Leonidas Guibas, Thomas Funkhouser,
  SplatTalk: 3D VQA with Gaussian Splatting,
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), (arXiv 2503.06271 [cs.CV]), October 2025.
   
• Zihao Xiao, Longlong Jing, Shangxuan Wu, Alex Zihao Zhu, Jingwei Ji, Chiyu Max Jiang, Wei-Chih Hung, Thomas Funkhouser, Weicheng Kuo, Anelia Angelova, Yin Zhou, Shiwei Sheng,
  3D Open-Vocabulary Panoptic Segmentation with 2D-3D Vision-Language Distillation,
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), (arXiv:2401.02402 [cs.CV], September 2024.
   
• Yushi Lan, Feitong Tan, Di Qiu, Qiangeng Xu, Kyle Genova, Zeng Huang, Sean Fanello, Rohit Pandey, Thomas Funkhouser, Chen Change Loy, Yinda Zhang,
  Gaussian3Diff: 3D Gaussian Diffusion for 3D Full Head Synthesis and Editing,
  European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), (arXiv:2312.03763 [cs.CV]), September 2024.
   
• Christian Diller, Thomas Funkhouser, Angela Dai,
  FutureHuman3D: Forecasting Complex Long-Term 3D Human Behavior from Video Observations,
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), (arXiv:2211.14309 [cs.CV]), June 2024.
   
• Jimmy Wu, Rika Antonova, Adam Kan, Marion Lepert, Andy Zeng, Shuran Song, Jeannette Bohg, Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Thomas Funkhouser,
  TidyBot: Personalized Robot Assistance with Large Language Models,
  Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS), (arXiv 2305.05658 [cs.RO]), October 2023.
   
• Fangyin Wei, Thomas Funkhouser, Szymon Rusinkiewicz,
  Clutter Detection and Removal in 3D Scenes with View-Consistent Inpainting,
  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), (arXiv 2304.03763 [cs.CV]), October 2023.
   
• Hong-Xing Yu, Michelle Guo, Alireza Fathi, Yen-Yu Chang, Eric Ryan Chan, Ruohan Gao, Thomas Funkhouser, Jiajun Wu,
  Learning Object-Centric Neural Scattering Functions for Free-viewpoint Relighting and Scene Composition,
  Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), June 2023 (arXiv 2303.06138 [cs.CV]).
   
• Songyou Peng, Kyle Genova, Chiyu "Max" Jiang, Andrea Tagliasachi, Marc Pollefeys, Thomas Funkhouser,
  OpenScene: 3D Scene Understanding with Open Vocabularies,
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2023 (arXiv 2211.15564 [cs.CV]).
   
• Xiaoshuai Zhang, Abhijit Kundu, Thomas Funkhouser, Leonidas Guibas, Hao Su, Kyle Genova,
  Nerflets: Local Radiance Fields for Efficient Structure-Aware 3D Scene Representation from 2D Supervision,
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2023 (arXiv 2303.03361 [cs.CV]).
   
• Zhiqin Chen, Thomas Funkhouser, Peter Hedman, Andrea Tagliasacchi,
  MobileNeRF: Exploiting the Polygon Rasterization Pipeline for Efficient Neural Field Rendering on Mobile Architectures,,
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2023 (arXiv 2208.00277 [cs.GR]).
   

Recent Professional Activities (here is a full list of activities):

• Papers chair, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2009
• Advisory board, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2008, A2009, 2011, 2015, 2022
• Papers sort, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017
• Papers committee, ACM SIGGRAPH, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, A2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2022
• Papers chair, EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), 2014
• Papers committee, EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Geometry Processing (SGP), 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016
• Technical Awards Chair, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2019 - 2024
• Member, Technical Awards Committee, ACM SIGGRAPH, 2017 - 2018
• Area chair, ICCV, 2021
• Area chair, CVPR, 2020

Recent Graduate Students and Postdocs:

• Manolis Savva (Postdoc 2016-2018: Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University)
• Angel Chang (Postdoc 2016-2018: Assistant Professor at Simon Fraser University)
• Sid Chaudhuri (Postdoc 2011-2104: Assistant Professor at IIT Bombay)
• Yaron Lipman (Postdoc 2008-2011: Associate Professor at Weizmann Institute)
• Jian Sun (Postdoc, 2009-1010: Associate Professor at Tsinghua)
• Daniel Aliaga (Postdoc, 2002-2003: Associate Professor at Purdue)
• Jimmy Wu (Ph.D. 2025, co-advised with Szymon Rusinkiewicz)
• Fangyin Wei (PhD 2024, co-advised with Szymon Rusinkiewicz: Nvidia)
• Kyle Genova (Ph.D. 2021: Google)
• Andy Zeng (Ph.D. 2019: Google)
• Maciej Halber (Ph.D. 2019: Dolby)
• Elena Sizikova (Ph.D. 2019: Faculty Fellow at NYU)
• Shuran Song (Ph.D. 2018: Assistant Professor at Columbia University)
• Yinda Zhang (Ph.D. 2018: Google)
• Fisher Yu (Ph.D. 2018: Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich)
• Tianqian Liu (Ph.D. 2015: Google)
• Aleksey Boyko (Ph.D. 2015: Google)
• Xiaobai Chen (Ph.D. 2014: Citadel)
• Vladimir Kim (Ph.D. 2013: Adobe Research Labs)
• Alex Golovinskiy (Ph.D. 2010: Google)
• Paul Calamia (Ph.D. 2009: MIT Lincoln Laboratory)
• Phil Shilane (Ph.D. 2008: Dell EMC)
• Misha Kazhdan (Ph.D. 2004: Full Professor at John Hopkins)
• Patrick Min (Ph.D. 2004: Freelance)
• Rudro Samanta (Ph.D. 2002: Pixar)