CV

Contact Information

Name Mohit Mendiratta
Professional Title Head of AI Research, QOVES
Email mohitmendiratta2014@gmail.com

Professional Summary

Computer vision and graphics researcher working on photorealistic 3D faces, Gaussian head avatars, text-driven editing and vision-language models for faces.

Experience

  • 2026 - present

    Saarbrücken, Germany

    Head of AI Research
    QOVES
    Led AI research for QOVES’s facial analysis and image editing products.
    • Built a complete face-editing system in 7 months, spanning precise geometric edits, appearance editing, latent control and outpainting.
    • Led a team of researchers and interns.
    • Worked with the psychology team to study facial biases in LLMs.
  • 2021 - 2026

    Saarbrücken, Germany

    Doctoral Researcher
    Max Planck Institute for Informatics
    PhD research on photorealistic 3D faces and head avatars, including text-driven avatar editing (AvatarStudio, TEDRA, EmoteGPT) and Gaussian morphable head models (GRMM).
  • 2019 - 2021

    Saarbrücken, Germany

    Research Assistant
    Max Planck Institute for Informatics
    Built an egocentric videoconferencing system for hands-free video calls from smart glasses, published in ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH Asia 2020).
  • 2019

    Saarbrücken, Germany

    Research Assistant
    Fraunhofer IZFP
    No-reference image quality assessment, an ROI analysis tool, and large-scale synthetic image generation with heat-equation based modelling.
  • 2017 - 2018

    Bangalore, India

    Associate Software Engineer
    Zentron Labs
    Image processing and vision system design for Fruitron, an automated optical sorting machine using visible, infrared and UV imaging.
  • 2017

    Bangalore, India

    Intern
    Zentron Labs
    Fruit tracking, ejection and vision calibration for Fruitron.

Education

  • 2021 - 2026

    Saarbrücken, Germany

    Dr.-Ing.
    Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University
    Computer Science
    • Thesis defence pending.
    • Advisor Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt. 3D human and facial modelling, generative AI and multimodal reasoning.
  • 2018 - 2021

    Saarbrücken, Germany

    MSc
    Saarland University
    Visual Computing
    • Final grade: 1.4 (German scale)
  • 2013 - 2017

    Bhubaneswar, India

    BTech
    Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology
    Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    • Graduated in the top 5% of the class

Awards

  • 2020
    Germany Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium)
    Saarland University

    Saarland Scholarship for International Students, for outstanding academic performance.

Service

Reviewer: SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, 3DV, Eurographics