Hi, I am Jian (James) Wang, currently a Staff Research Scientist at Snap Inc. I am now leading the Snap Research NYC team. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Prof. Aswin Sankaranarayanan and Prof. Srinivasa Narasimhan.
I'm mainly interested in Computational Photography/Imaging , including image/video quality enhancement, image/video editing/manipulation, and generations. I was managed by Shree K. Nayar and Guru Krishnan in Snap. Shree gave a nice keynote about our (unpublished) work in ICCP 2022 which includes my works, see here video link.

• The 1st Workshop on Low-Level Vision Frontiers with Generative AI, Preference Optimization, and Agentic Systems (LoViF) [website]
  June 4, 2026, 8:20am to 12:20pm, Room 504, Colorado Convention Center. Come for invited talks, accepted works, poster discussions, challenge awards, and our Efficient VLM for Multimodal Creative Quality Scoring challenge.
• The First Workshop on Video Generative Models: Benchmarks and Evaluation [website]
  June 4, 2026, 9:00am to 5:40pm, Mile High 3, Colorado Convention Center. Come to discuss how we should evaluate and benchmark video generative models beyond beautiful demos.
• Workshop on Agentic AI for Visual Media [website]
  June 3, 2026, 8:50am to 5:50pm, Mile High 1EF, Denver. Come for a full-day program on vision agents, tool-using multimodal systems, creative media workflows, and next-generation visual AI.

• I gave a keynote talk on CVPR 2024 MIPI workshop titled "Towards A Better Camera in the App and AR Glass".
• I serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2026, AAAI 2026, NeurIPS DB 2025, ICML 2025, ICLR 2025, CVPR 2025, NeurIPS 2024, ICLR 2024, CVPR 2024, CVPR 2023.
• Magic AR Mirror got the Best Paper Award in SIGGRAPH Asia 2024.
• We are organizing ECCV 2024 workshop "3DVeComm", 3D Vision and Modeling Challenges in eCommerce link .
• I gave a poster, Towards a Better Camera, to briefly introduce our work (of one year ago) in CVPR 2024 AC workshop; see here .
• 🔥🔥 We have multiple openings for internship in 2024 (Summer, Fall or Spring), see flyer . If you are interested, please send me an email. For international students outside of the US, we can help them apply for J-1 visas.
• Why intern with us? — We have exciting and real research problems from our product Snapchat App (a multimedia instant messaging app with 406 million daily active users, Q3, 2023) and future product Snap Spectacles, our industry-leading AR glasses. We are responsible for every intern by carefully designing each project to fulfill the intern's interest and expected outcome from the internship. The intern has a chance to have product impact, academic impact, or both. In the past five years, each intern had one first-author paper in top-tier conferences 🤗. Besides, interns will have a competitive salary and housing stipend, and have the opportunities to visit many internet celebrity check-in places in New York City 😀. The internship experience could also help students later find full-time jobs in the US.
• In the past, our group were fortunate to host a group of talented students. They had great experiences and outcomes.
• 2022, to be updated
• 2021, 1 CVPR22 Oral by Fangzhuo Mu, 1 ICCP22 best demo award, 1 ECCV22, 1 ACM MM22, 1 journal in submission, 1 US patent
• 2020, 1 CVPR21 Oral, 1 BOE (journal), 1 CHI21 by Chang Xiao, 3 US patents, 1 tech transfer
• 2019, 1 US Patent which becomes a key module in current product by Wenzheng Chen and Yingsi Qin (and FTEs), 1 NeurIPS20
• 2018, 1 best paper award in ACM MM20 by Arun Asokan Nair, 1 Siggraph19 by Chang Xiao, 2 ICCV19 including one oral
• Dejia Xu (2022), Riku Arakawa (2022), Sizhuo Ma (2020), and Xiao Chang (2019) received the pretigious Snap Research Fellowship. Sizhuo joined Snap Research after graduation.
• We are organizing ICCV 2023 workshop "3DVeComm", 3D Vision and Modeling Challenges in eCommerce link .
• I gave a poster, Towards a Better Camera, to briefly introduce our work (of one year ago) in CVPR 2023 AC workshop; see here .
• B站GAMES204计算成像上的talk，介绍Snap research在计算成像和计算摄影方面的研究工作 链接
• 2022 Snap Research Fellowship Winners and Honorable Mentions link are out! Congratulations to all recipients!
• I will give a talk titled "Computational Imaging/Photography research at Snap Research" at New York University and Purdue University in November and December 2022, respectively.
• Transparent Camera got Best Poster Award in ICCP 2022.

• We have 5 feature launches in 2024.
• We had 20 feature launches from 2018 to 2023.