Wentao Yuan
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWentao Yuan is a research scientist with a decade of experience building algorithms for 3D perception and robotic interaction, currently based in Mountain View and recently joining Google DeepMind. His work blends deep academic training—a PhD from the University of Washington and an MS from Carnegie Mellon—with industry research internships at NVIDIA and Meta, focusing on enabling robots to perceive complex environments and manipulate diverse objects. He has a track record of moving between top labs and industry, translating novel perception models into practical systems during extended research appointments. Notably, his background spans both foundational PhD research and hands-on engineering internships at Google and NVIDIA, giving him rare fluency in both theory and production-ready implementation.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Nanjing Foreign Language SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Pomona College
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (33)
pointnet10
autoencoder10
computer-vision10
point-cloud10
3d-reconstruction10
pcl9
multimodal9
chatbot9
foundation-models9
cpp8
deep-learning8
ply8
chatgpt8
llama6
point-cloud-library6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wentaoyuan/pcn
Jul 2018 - Aug 2020
Code for PCN: Point Completion Network in 3DV'18 (Oral)
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 1 month
autoencodercomputer-visionpointpointnetcompletion
wentaoyuan/sornet
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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