Fabián Prada

Fabian Prada (full name Fabian Prada Nino) represented Colombia at the 2006 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning an honourable mention with 14 points. He holds a BSc in Mathematics from Universidad de los Andes, an MSc in Mathematics from IMPA (Brazil), and a PhD in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, where his thesis 'Signal Processing on Textured Meshes' extended image-processing techniques to signals on triangle meshes. He is now a Research Scientist in Meta's Codec Avatars Lab in Pittsburgh, working on 3D avatar and human digitization research.

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• Represented Colombia at the 2006 IMO and earned an honourable mention (14 points, rank 254) as a schoolboy, the start of a math-to-computer-graphics trajectory.Jul 2006
• Now a Research Scientist in Meta's Codec Avatars Lab in Pittsburgh, working on 3D human digitization and relightable Gaussian avatars, i.e. the avatar/telepresence research arm of Meta Reality Labs.
• PhD at Johns Hopkins under geometry-processing (Misha Kazhdan's group) on 'Signal Processing on Textured Meshes', extending image operators like shock filters and optical flow to arbitrary triangle meshes and texture atlases.Oct 9, 2018
• Recruited back into the Colombian olympiad pipeline as an assistant at Universidad Antonio Nariño, turning his own contest experience into coaching before leaving for graduate study abroad.
• Built a pure-math foundation (BSc Universidad de los Andes, MSc IMPA) before pivoting to computer science, a sign his graphics work is geometry/math-driven rather than application-first.