Rishit Dagli

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I am broadly interested in learning algorithms, computer vision, graphics, learning theory, and math. My research interests are in building models that can produce physically realistic dynamic worlds as well as understand this complex (4D) world.

I am an undergraduate student in CS and Math at UofT University of Toronto. Previously, I took a 1-year break from my undergrad to work at NVIDIA as a research intern at the intersection of AI, vision, and graphics. Before that, I was a research intern at Qualcomm AI Research in 2024 with Roland Memisevic, Guillaume Berger on video-audio-language models (VLMs). Even before that, I was a research engineering intern at CivoCivo with Josh Mesout where I focused on improving inference performance of multimodal models.

In a past life, I used to work on software engineering and building robot hardware. I used to contribute to some popular open-source software.

I am looking for a PhD position starting Fall 2026. Please reach out if you can help in any way.

selected publications

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    FreeForm: Reduced-Order Deformable Simulation from Particle-Based Skinning Eigenmodes
    Donglai Xiang*Vismay Modi*Rishit Dagli, and 5 more authors
    CVPR 2026 (* joint first authors)
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    VoMP: Predicting Volumetric Mechanical Property Fields
    Rishit DagliDonglai XiangVismay Modi, and 7 more authors
    ICLR 2026
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    Squeeze3D: Your 3D Generation Model is Secretly an Extreme Neural Compressor
    Rishit DagliYushi GuanSankeerth Durvasula, and 2 more authors
    arXiv 2025
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    Can Vision-Language Models Answer Face to Face Questions in the Real-World?
    Reza Pourreza*Rishit Dagli*Apratim Bhattacharyya, and 3 more authors
    ICLR 2026 (* joint first authors)
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    SEE-2-SOUND: Zero-Shot Spatial Environment-to-Spatial Sound
    Rishit DagliShivesh PrakashRobert Wu, and 1 more author
    SIGGRAPH Posters 2025
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    NeRF-US: Removing Ultrasound Imaging Artifacts from Neural Radiance Fields in the Wild
    Rishit DagliAtsuhiro HibiRahul G. Krishnan, and 1 more author
    MLHC 2024