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Senior Research Scientist

Tavus

Working on next-generation avatar rendering and generation technology, with a focus on video diffusion models for photorealistic, real-time avatars.

• Video diffusion models for photorealistic avatar generation
• Autoregressive generation methods (Self-Forcing) for real-time deployment
• Real-time avatar rendering and generation pipelines
• Gaussian Splatting and neural rendering

Research Science Intern

Microsoft

Research internship in the Mixed Reality & AI Lab. Led development of GASP (Gaussian Avatars with Synthetic Priors), a method for creating animatable 360-degree Gaussian avatars from a single image, published at CVPR 2025. Also contributed to RwR (Retrieve while Reasoning).

• Led development of GASP: Gaussian Avatars with Synthetic Priors (CVPR 2025)
• Real-time 360-degree animatable avatars from a single image at 70fps
• Contributed to RwR: Retrieve while Reasoning (CVPR 2025)
• Gaussian Splatting, synthetic data priors, avatar fitting

Founder

RealSync AI

Founded RealSync AI to provide consultancy and science communication for avatar and digital human companies. Focus on lip-sync, talking face, and deepfake detection technologies.

• Consultancy for avatar and digital human companies
• Science communication around AI-generated video
• Lip-sync and talking face technology

Research Scientist (Part-time)

DeepReel

Employee #1 at DeepReel. Designed and implemented the core AI Avatar technology powering the product.

• Designed and built core AI avatar pipeline from scratch
• Lip-sync and talking face generation
• Neural rendering for video avatars

Research Intern

Epic Games

Research internship focused on style transfer for 3D facial animation, which later became the basis for the FACTS paper at Eurographics 2024.

• Style transfer for 3D facial animation
• Unreal Engine MetaHuman integration
• GAN-based emotion and style transfer

PhD

University of Bath, UK

Computer Science — Deep Learning for Digital Humans

BSc

University of Southampton, UK

Mathematics

E T Davis Prize for Pure Mathematics

University of Southampton

Awarded to the student with the highest mark in Pure Mathematics in the final year of the BSc Mathematics course.

GASP: Gaussian Avatars with Synthetic Priors

CVPR 2025

Real-time animatable Gaussian Splatting avatars from a single image or monocular video, using synthetic priors. Renders at 70fps on commercial hardware.

DEAD: Data-Efficient Audiovisual Dubbing using Neural Rendering Priors

BMVC 2025

High-quality video dubbing from seconds of training data using a multi-person neural rendering prior.

TalkLoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation for Speech-Driven Animation

BMVC 2024

Personalised speech-driven facial animation using LoRA adaptors with efficient transformer inference via chunking.

FACTS: Facial Animation Creation using the Transfer of Styles

Eurographics 2024

Style transfer for 3D facial animation — retargeting emotion and idiosyncratic speaking style while preserving lip sync.

READ Avatars: Realistic Emotion-controllable Audio Driven Avatars

BMVC 2023

Emotion-controllable audio-driven avatars using neural texture models conditioned on emotion with adversarial training.