Guanzhou Ji

About

I am an Assistant Teaching Professor in Software Engineering and Information Systems (SEIS) at Northeastern University, College of Engineering, where I joined Seattle Campus in Aug 2025. Later, I started to serve as Chair of AI Research, Innovation & Industry at the AI Research & Innovation Lab within the SEIS unit of Northeastern’s Global Campus Network in Aug 2026. I currently teach application engineering and development, program structure and algorithms, and Large Language Models, and lead my research group Spatioform Lab.

I received Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Feb 2025, focusing on indoor virtual staging funded by Zillow Group. I was a part of Computational Imaging group, 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).

Selected Publications

Industry Standard:

Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), Recommended Practice: Lighting for Interior and Exterior Residential Environments, American National Standard, ISBN 978-0-87995-510-6, Jan 2026

Journal:

Li, Zhuorui, Jinzhao Tian, Guanzhou Ji, Tiffany Cheng, Vivian Loftness, and Xu Han. “Reinforcement Learning-Enabled Adaptive Control for Climate-Responsive Kinetic Building Facades.” Buildings (2075-5309) 15, no. 16 (2025).

Ji, Guanzhou, Azadeh Sawyer, and Srinivasa Narasimhan. “Virtual home staging and relighting from a single panorama under natural illumination.” Machine Vision and Applications 35, no. 4 (2024): 98.

Conference Proceedings:

Ji, Guanzhou,  Sriram Narayanan, Azadeh Sawyer, and Srinivasa Narasimhan, “Indoor Heat Estimation from a Single Visible-Light Panorama.” In International Symposium on Visual Computing, 2025.

Ji, Guanzhou, Azadeh Sawyer, and Srinivasa Narasimhan. “Virtual home staging: Inverse rendering and editing an indoor panorama under natural illumination.” In International Symposium on Visual Computing, pp. 329-342. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.