Yuliang Zou
Senior Research Scientist at Waymo
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolYuliang Zou is a Senior Research Scientist at Waymo with a decade of experience applying 3D perception and generative AI techniques to autonomous driving. With a Ph.D. in machine perception from Virginia Tech and internships at Adobe, NEC Labs, Google, and Waymo, he bridges rigorous academic research and real-world perception systems. His work spans geometry understanding, human-centric action recognition, and data-efficient learning, with publications at ECCV, BMVC, and CVIU. Based in Mountain View, he has repeatedly transitioned research prototypes into practical perception improvements for self-driving stacks. An often-overlooked strength is his recurring role as both mentor and implementer during internships and teaching, which helps him translate complex papers into production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Science, High School Diploma Science at Guangzhou Zhixin High SchoolMaster of Science (M.S.E) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.E) Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of MichiganDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering - Machine Perception, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering - Machine Perception at Virginia TechBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information & Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information & Communication Engineering at Zhejiang University
Chinese, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (101)
benchmark10
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python10
toolbox10
radiance10
deep-learning10
gpu10
faster-rcnn10
depth-estimation10
neural-rendering10
neural-network10
object-detection10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
action-recognition10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Yuliang-Zou/Yuliang-Zou.github.io
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
vt-vl-lab/reading_group
Aug 2017 - Aug 2020
Virginia Tech Vision and Learning Reading Group
Contributions:136 commits, 12 PRs, 131 pushes in 3 years
tech-visionvisionreading-groupcomputer-visionmachine-learning
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