Georgios Pavlakos
Assistant Professor
Georgios Pavlakos is an Assistant Professor in UT Computer Science. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. Previously, he was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley, advised by Angjoo Kanazawa and Jitendra Malik. He completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania with his advisor, Kostas Daniilidis. He has spent time at Max Planck Institute with Michael Black and at Facebook Reality Labs. His PhD dissertation received the Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff Award for the Best Computer Science Dissertation at UPenn, while his work has received the Best Student Paper Honorable Mention at ICCV 2025.
Research
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RayZer: A Self-supervised Large View Synthesis Model. Hanwen Jiang, Hao Tan, Peng Wang, Haian Jin, Yue Zhao, Sai Bi, Kai Zhang, Fujun Luan, Kalyan Sunkavalli, Qixing Huang, Georgios Pavlakos. ICCV 2025.
Humans in 4D: Reconstructing and Tracking Humans with Transformers. . ICCV 2023
Decoupling Human and Camera Motion from Videos in the Wild. . CVPR 2023.
Expressive Body Capture: 3D Hands, Face and Body from a Single Image. Georgios Pavlakos*, Vasileios Choutas*, Nima Ghorbani, Timo Bolkart, Ahmed A. A. Osman, Dimitrios Tzionas, Michael J. Black. CVPR 2019.
Awards & Honors
- 2025 - Best Student Paper Honorable Mention, ICCV
- 2022 - Best Paper Finalist, CVPR
- 2021 - Morris and Dorothy Rubinoff Award
- 2019 - Best Paper Finalist, CVPR