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Luis Pesqueira is a leading researcher in 3D computer vision and embodied AI, best known for his foundational contributions to photorealistic indoor scene reconstruction and simulation. His landmark work, "The Replica Dataset" (2019), with over 384 citations, introduced 18 highly detailed, HDR-textured 3D indoor environments at room and building scale. This dataset provides dense meshes, per-primitive semantic and instance annotations, and planar mirror/glass reflectivity—enabling unprecedented realism for training and evaluating AI agents in virtual spaces. By bridging the gap between synthetic and real-world perception, Pesqueira's research has become a cornerstone for embodied AI tasks like navigation, interaction, and scene understanding. His work has been widely adopted by major research groups and industry labs, accelerating progress in autonomous systems and AR/VR. Beyond the Replica dataset, Pesqueira continues to push boundaries in scalable 3D reconstruction and simulation, making him a pivotal figure in creating the digital replicas that train tomorrow's intelligent machines.