• Relighting
• 3D Face Reconstruction
• Virtual/Augmented Reality

	3DPR: Single Image 3D Portrait Relight using Generative Priors Pramod Rao, Abhimitra Meka*, Xilong Zhou*, Gereon Fox, Mallikarjun B R, Fangneng Zhan, Tim Weyrich, Bernd Bickel, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Thabo Beeler, Mohamed Elgharib, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Conference Proceedings Project Page PDF Code Dataset
	OLATverse: A Large-scale Real-world Object Dataset with Precise Lighting Control Xilong Zhou, Jianchun Chen*, Pramod Rao*, Timo Teufel, Linjie Lyu, Tigran Minasian, Oleksandr Sotnychenko, Xiao-Xiao Long, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt Preprint 2025 Project Page PDF
	HumanOLAT: A Large-Scale Dataset for Full-Body Human Relighting and Novel-View Synthesis. Timo Teufel, Pulkit Gera, Xilong Zhou, Umar Iqbal , Pramod Rao, Jan Kautz, Vladislav Golyanik, Christian Theobalt International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025. Project Page PDF Code Dataset
	Lite2Relight: 3D-aware Single Image Portrait Relighting Pramod Rao, Gereon Fox, Abhimitra Meka, Mallikarjun B R, Fangneng Zhan, Tim Weyrich, Bernd Bickel, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Mohamed Elgharib and Christian Theobalt ACM SIGGRAPH 2024 Conference Proceedings Project Page PDF Code
	A Deeper Analysis of Volumetric Relightable Faces Pramod Rao, Mallikarjun B R, Gereon Fox, Fangneng Zhan, Tim Weyrich, Bernd Bickel, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Ayush Tewari, Christian Theobalt and Mohamed Elgharib International Journal of Computer Vision 2023 (IJCV)   —   Invited Paper Project Page PDF Code
	VoRF: Volumetric Relightable Faces Pramod Rao, Mallikarjun B R, Gereon Fox, Tim Weyrich, Bernd Bickel, Hanspeter Pfister, Wojciech Matusik, Ayush Tewari, Christian Theobalt and Mohamed Elgharib British Machine Vision Conference 2022 (BMVC)   —   Best Paper Award Honourable Mention Project Page PDF

* denotes equal contribution

• July 2022 -- present:
  Ph. D. student in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany and the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
  
• Oct 2019 -- May 2022:
  Masters in Visual Computing at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany