Recipient of the 2023 Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD Fellowship and the 2022 Snap Research Fellowship. Selected as one of the EECS Rising Stars 2023. Published multiple papers at SIGGRAPH Asia 2025, ICCV 2025, TMLR 2025, NeurIPS 2024, etc.
Research Experience
Currently a Research Scientist at NVIDIA Toronto AI Lab, led by Sanja Fidler. During her PhD, she interned at Google Project Starline team, Adobe Research, and Autodesk AI Lab.
Education
PhD: Stanford University, advised by Leonidas Guibas; Master's: National University of Singapore; Undergraduate: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
Background
Research interests include 3D vision, geometry processing, graphics, and machine learning, with a focus on different representations of 3D objects and scenes for tasks such as deformation, reconstruction, controllable generation, and variation synthesis. Aims to connect classical techniques with learning-based approaches.
Miscellany
Email: mikacuy [at] gmail [dot] com, mikacuy [at] stanford [dot] edu; Featured in an article for Women in Computer Vision by RSIP Vision.