Elena Garcés

Elena Garcés

Senior Research Scientist

Adobe

I am a Senior Research Scientist at Adobe Paris since June 2024. Before that, I was Juan de la Cierva Fellow at the MSLab of the URJC and a Director at SEDDI (Madrid) where I led a technology team with expertise in render, optical capture, and AI. During 2016-2018, I was Postdoctoral researcher in Technicolor R&D (France) working with Erik Reinhard. I completed my PhD in 2016 in the Graphics and Imaging Lab of the University of Zaragoza (Spain) supervised by Prof. Dr. Diego Gutierrez. During my PhD I had the opportunity to intern twice at Adobe Research (San Jose & Seattle, US). I proudly received the 2017 Premio de Investigación de la Sociedad Científica Informática de España y Fundación BBVA.

My research interests span the fields of computer graphics, computer vision, and applied machine learning. In particular, I currently work on digitization (optics & physics) of fabric materials, machine learning-based simulations of garments, and 3D scene reconstruction.

I am always looking for Master/PhD students interested in doing an internship in Adobe Paris. Please, write me an email if you are interested!

You can contact me at or elenag_at_adobe_dot_com


Recent news
Jun 2026
1 Paper accepted at ECCV 2026
Jun 2026
Jun 2026
Program Co-chair of CEIG 2026, Valencia (Spain)
May 2026
I will be Program Co-chair of EUROGRAPHICS 2027 in Lucca (Italy)

Students

PhD students · Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid, Spain)
  • Henar Dominguez-Elvira — Ongoing (co-supervised with Marc Comino)
  • Mario Alfonso-Arsuaga — Ongoing (co-supervised with Jorge Lopez-Moreno)
  • Raquel Vidaurre — Finalized 2024 (co-supervised with Dan Casas)
  • Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo — Finalized 2023

Teaching

2021–2027
Aprendizaje Automático (Machine Learning), Máster en Informática Gráfica, Juegos y Realidad Virtual (URJC)
2022–2023
Comportamiento de Personajes and Informática Gráfica, Grado en Informática Gráfica, Juegos y Realidad Virtual (URJC)
2014–2015
Teaching Assistant, Universidad de Zaragoza: 120h of Programming in Electrical and Industrial Engineering

Invited Talks & Keynotes

Dec 2025
Panelist, WiGRAPH (Women in Computer Graphics), Hong Kong
Dec 2025
Keynote Speaker, xDiff Workshop, Braunschweig, Germany
Aug 2025
Keynote Speaker, MANNER Conference, Darmstadt, Germany
Jun 2024
XR&AI Summer PhD School 2024, Matera, Italy. AI for Computer Graphics
Apr 2024
FMX Conference on Film & Media Exchange, Stuttgart, Germany. Executing a Machine Learning Project for the Media and Entertainment Industry
Jan 2023
VLC Tech Women, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. AI for Human and Textile Digitization
Nov 2022
AI Art Event (hosted by the Ib), Madrid, Spain. Keynote, AI & Art
Nov 2022
CVMP 2022. From fibers to pixels: SEDDI’s approach for scalable textile digitization

Professional Services

Conference Chairing & Organization
2027
Program Co-Chair, EUROGRAPHICS
2026
Program Co-Chair, CEIG
2026
2024
Program Co-Chair, EGSR
International Program Committees (IPC)
  • SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, 2026
  • Eurographics (EG) 2023, 2024, 2025
  • 3DV 2026 (Area Chair and Oral Presentation Coach)
  • I3D 2021–2024
  • EGSR 2018–2020, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026
  • EG Short Papers 2019; EG State of the Art Reports 2017
  • CEIG 2018–2024
Reviewing

Computer Graphics Forum, ACM Transactions on Graphics, Signal, Image and Video Processing, ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, Pacific Graphics, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV.