Mia Gaia Polansky, Ph.D.

I build robust visual systems by bridging geometric and probabilistic reasoning with deep learning.

San Francisco Bay Area

Selected Work

Eulerian Gaussian Splatting

Mia Gaia Polansky, George Kopanas, Stephan Garbin, Todd Zickler, Dor Verbin

We introduce a probabilistic radiance-field framework that preserves 3DGS-level rendering speed while replacing heuristic Gaussian densification with gradient-based optimization of a learnable volumetric density (CVPR 2026).

Boundary Attention

Mia Gaia Polansky, Charles Herrmann, Junhwa Hur, Deqing Sun, Dor Verbin, Todd Zickler

We introduce a lightweight geometry-aware attention network that learns unrasterized local boundary structure, including curves, corners, and junctions, and generalizes from simple synthetic shapes to noisy low-light photographs (ECCV workshop on Traditional Computer Vision, 2024).

Education

Rice University

Houston, TX · May 2017

B.S., Electrical Engineering — Data Science Specialization

Technical Details

Core Areas
Computer vision · 3D reconstruction · visual representation learning · attention mechanisms · transformer architectures · probabilistic modeling · gradient estimation · diffusion models · neural rendering
Tools
PyTorch · CUDA · JAX · C++ · Slang · Illustrator · LLM-assisted development