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

	Differentiable Polarized Path Tracing Pramod Rao, Jérémy Riviere, Xilong Zhou, Abhijeet Ghosh, Abhimitra Meka, Thabo Beeler, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt, Delio Vicini European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026. Project Page PDF Supplementary Code
	RelightAnyone: A Generalized Relightable 3D Gaussian Head Model Yingyan Xu, Pramod Rao, Sebastian Weiss, Gaspard Zoss, Markus Gross, Christian Theobalt, Marc Habermann, Derek Bradley Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026. Project Page
	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 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026. Oral · Best Paper Award Candidate Project Page PDF Supplementary Code Dataset
	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