Zhiding Yu
Principal Research Scientist & Research Lead at NVIDIA
California, United States
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Top SchoolZhiding Yu is a Principal Research Scientist and Research Lead at NVIDIA with nine years of research experience building multimodal foundation models, data engines, and general intelligence systems. He holds a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and progressed through research roles at NVIDIA from Research Scientist to Principal, reflecting deep expertise in large-scale AI research and productization. His early work on semantic edge detection and facial expression recognition was published at top venues and partly integrated into production APIs, demonstrating a track record of turning novel research into practical systems. Based in California, he blends academic rigor with engineering leadership to advance general autonomy across virtual and embodied domains, and he is known for bridging foundational model research with data and systems engineering.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Information Engineering (Talented Student Program), Bachelor's Degree Information Engineering (Talented Student Program) at South China University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical & Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Chinese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (39)
occupancy-grid-map10
semantic-segmentation10
corruption10
self-attention10
backbone10
eagle10
imagenet9
3d-object-detection9
efficientnet9
visual-recognition9
transformer9
computer-vision8
segformer8
object-detection8
huggingface8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Chrisding/sbd-preprocess
Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
NVlabs/FAN
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
Official PyTorch implementation of Fully Attentional Networks
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 2 comments in 2 months
corruptionsemantic-segmentationvisual-recognitionimage-classificationcoco
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