Guanzhou Ji

g.ji@northeastern.edu

Guanzhou Ji

I am an Assistant Teaching Professor in Software Engineering and Information Systems at Northeastern University – Seattle, College of Engineering, where I joined in August 2025. I currently teach foundamental programming, program structure and algorithm, and Large Language Models. I also explore Agentic AI, Multimodal Machine Learning, and 3D graphics.

I received my Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in February 2025, focusing on indoor virtual staging, and later served as a Research Associate at the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science. At the Illumination and Imaging Laboratory, my research focuses on 3D graphics, image-based rendering, and physics-based simulation, leading to the development of digital applications for scene understanding and interactive software systems.

I serve on the technical committees of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) and contribute to industry standards and imaging technologies. I am an Associate Editor for LEUKOS in VR/AR and machine learning (since April 2026). I served as session chair for Computer Graphics at the International Symposium on Visual Computing (2025) and was a recipient of the Student and Emerging Professionals Scholarship (2022) funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

News

2026.06: I have been selected as one of the MDPI 2025 Top 1000 Reviewers.

2026.04: I joined as an Associate Editor (VR/AR and Machine Learning) for LEUKOS, the journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society.

2026.03: I joined the CIE Research Forum on glare database and Technical Committee on scalar and vectorial quantities computation.

2026.03: I moderated a webinar on game engines for real-time simulation and immersive visualization.

2026.02: I co-authored Recommended Practice: Lighting for Interior and Exterior Residential Environments, an American National Standard.

2026.02: I delivered a spotlight talk in the webinar Workflow and Tool Development.

2026.01: I joined Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) - Annual Conference Papers Subcommittee.

2025

2025.12: I served as a peer reviewer for the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body for assessing climate science.

2025.11: I served as the Session Chair for Computer Graphics and presented at the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) in Las Vegas.

2025.11: I moderated online webinar Data-Driven Design Communication.

2025.10: I contributed an AIAU online course on Energy Modeling.

2025.08: I hosted the hands-on workshop Omnidirectional HDR Photography and served as a session speaker at IES25 in Anaheim, CA.

2025.08: I contributed a feature article to LD+A: magazine of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES).

2025.08: I contributed an AIAU course on High-Performance Design.

2025.06: I served as a session speaker at AIA25 in Boston.

2025.04: I joined the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) Program Committee.

2025.04: I contributed the article Project StaSIO: the beauty of data visualization, featured in the IBPSA Newsletter.

2025.04: I served as moderator for IBPSA + AIA BPKC Education Webinar.

2025.03: I served as a judge for the 2025 IES - Illumination Awards (IA).

2025.01: I served as moderator for the AIAU online course on Thermal Performance.

2024

2024.10: I joined the International Commission of Illumination (CIE) as a technical committee member.

2024.08: I gave a talk at the 22nd International Radiance Workshop in Salt Lake City, Utah.

2024.07: I joined as a technical committee member of the IES Technical Committee on Residential Lighting.

2024.07: I published a journal paper in Machine Vision and Applications.

2024.05: I co-taught the Impactful Data Visualization Workshop and moderated the Great Graphic Seminar at the SimBuild in Denver, CO.

Selected Publications

  1. Indoor Light and Heat Estimation from a Single Panorama
    Indoor Light and Heat Estimation from a Single Panorama

    International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2025 Oral Presentation
    Guanzhou Ji, Sriram Narayanan, Azadeh Sawyer, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan
    [paper]

  2. Reinforcement Learning-Enabled Adaptive Control
    Reinforcement Learning-Enabled Adaptive Control

    Buildings, 2025 Journal
    Zhuorui Li, Jinzhao Tian, Guanzhou Ji, Tiffany Cheng, Vivian Loftness, Xu Han
    [paper]

  3. Virtual Home Staging and Relighting from a Single Panorama under Natural Illumination

    Machine Vision and Applications, 2024 Journal
    Guanzhou Ji, Azadeh O. Sawyer, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan
    [paper] [code]

  4. Virtual Home Staging: Inverse Rendering and Editing an Indoor Panorama under Natural Illumination

    International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), 2023 Oral Presentation
    Guanzhou Ji, Azadeh O. Sawyer, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan
    [paper] [code]

Dataset

  1. Fisheye-Panorama HDR Dataset

    Calibrated HDR dataset includes 137 indoor panoramas and paired real-time outdoor fisheye images.
    [link]

  1. Indoor-Outdoor HDR Panorama Dataset

    Calibrated HDR dataset for 141 paired indoor-outdoor panoramas with furnished indoor scenes.
    [link]

Outside Work

In my spare time, I like to explore golf courses, volunteer to teach teenagers golf at First Tee, and participate in equestrian activities. I used to be a college athlete (110/400m hurdles).