About Me

Hi! I’m Balamurugan Thambiraja, presently pursuing a PhD at the 3D Graphics & Vision group of Prof. Justus Thies at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. Previous, I was part of IMPRS-IS Ph.D. program at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany (MPI-IS). Currently, I'm also a Guest Scientist at the Perceiving Systems at the MPI-IS. During my Ph.D., I'm had the oppurtinity to closely work with Darren Cosker and Sadegh Aliakbarian from Mesh Labs, Microsoft, Cambrdige.

In my Ph.D., I am exploring ways to leverage seq2seq and foundational models for synthesizing human motion and its underlying dynamics. Recently, I have been working with diffusion models and large language models for motion synthesis and editing, aiming to enhance the realism, controllability and OOD generalization to in-the-wild scenarios.

Before the PhD, I did a Masters in Informatics at TUM, Germany, where I worked on human modelling and sign language synthesis at the Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence group of Prof. Matthias Niessner. Before that, I did my Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.