Prashanth Chandran

I am a Research Scientist (Machine Learning) at Google AR/VR. I enjoy working on creative applications at the intersection of computer vision, graphics, and machine learning. Please take a look at some of my publications to know more about my work :)

I was previously an Associate Research Scientist at Disney Research|Studios and a member of the Facial VFX group.

I completed my PhD from the Computer Graphics Lab at ETH Zurich and Disney Research|Studios, where I was advised by Prof. Markus Gross, and co-supervised by Dr. Derek Bradley. Before my PhD, I completed my Masters in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, also at ETH Zurich, where my focus was on machine learning and computer vision. I received my bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering in 2013 from the Madras Institute of Technology and later worked for 3 years at Caterpillar Inc. as an embedded electronics engineer.


Recent Publications (view more)

Multimodal Conditional 3D Face Geometry Generation

Shape Modeling International (2025)

Joint Learning of Depth and Appearance for Portrait Images

Workshop on Human-Interactive Generation and Editing (2025)

Monocular Facial Appearance Capture in the Wild

ICCV (2025)

ScaffoldAvatar: High-Fidelity Gaussian Avatars with Patch Expressions

SIGGRAPH (2025)

Neural Facial Deformation Transfer

Eurographics (2025)