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Pradyumn Goyal

Ph.D. Student
University of Massachusetts Amherst
pradyumngoya@umass.edu


About Me

Hi! I’m Pradyumn, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UMass Amherst, advised by Prof. Evangelos Kalogerakis.

My research lies at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning. I am interested in 3D/4D vision and generative modeling, with the broader goal of enabling machines to understand, create, and interact with 3D worlds—not just their geometry and appearance, but also their dynamics and physical behavior. My work so far has explored various aspects of 3D shape understanding, generation, and animation.

My motivation for research comes from both practical challenges and pure intellectual curiosity. While scaling is undoubtedly powerful, I find it particularly exciting when a clever idea, an elegant formulation, or a fresh perspective can reveal possibilities that were previously overlooked.

I received my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UMass Amherst. Outside research, I enjoy playing squash and tennis.

Experience

Publications

  1. BLARM: Animating 3D Objects from Video via Blending LAtent Rigid Motion Primitives
    Pradyumn Goyal, Yizhak Ben-Shabat, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Haomiao Jiang, Snehasish Mukherjee, Kyle Spence, Mark Stauber, Evangelos Kalogerakis, Yunze Zeng
    Proceedings of NeurIPS 2026.
    PDF Project Page

  2. GEOPARD Geometric Pretraining for Articulation Prediction in 3D Shapes
    Pradyumn Goyal, Dmitry Petrov, Sheldon Andrews, Yizhak Ben-Shabat, Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Evangelos Kalogerakis
    Proceedings of ICCV 2025.
    PDF Project Page

  3. ShapeWords Guiding Text-to-Image Synthesis with 3D Shape-Aware Prompts
    Dmitry Petrov, Pradyumn Goyal, Divyansh Shivashok, Yuanming Tao, Melinos Averkiou, Evangelos Kalogerakis
    Proceedings of CVPR 2025.
    PDF Project Page

  4. GEM3D GEnerative Medial Abstractions for 3D Shape Synthesis
    Dmitry Petrov, Pradyumn Goyal, Vikas Thamizharasan, Vladimir G. Kim, Matheus Gadelha, Melinos Averkiou, Siddhartha Chaudhuri, Evangelos Kalogerakis
    Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH , 2024.
    PDF Project Page