Bio
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I am a Senior Research Scientist at Waymo (formerly the Google self-driving car project). At Waymo, I develop new technologies for autonomous vehicles across various domains including perception, planning, simulation, and mapping.
Over the summers, I have (co-)hosted the following talented interns.
- Meng-Li Shih (University of Washington)
- Yang Fu (UC San Diego, Next: Nvidia)
- Zehao Zhu (UT Austin, Next: Waymo)
- Tianyuan Huang (Stanford, Next: Waymo)
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Me in 2016 |
Education
Aug. 2017 - May. 2022
Aug. 2015 - Apr. 2017
Sep. 2011 - Jun. 2015
Industry
May. 2021 - Aug. 2021
Jul. 2022 - Now
May. 2020 - Aug. 2020
May. 2019 - Aug. 2019
May. 2018 - Aug. 2018
News
[2026/06] |
One paper has been accepted IROS 2026! Stay tuned! |
[2026/05] |
We have released a tech report summarizing our findings in 3D perception model scaling! |
[2026/04] |
Our paper, "Scene Reconstruction as Mapping Priors for 3D Detection" has been selected as Highlight in CVPR 2026! |
[2026/02] |
Two papers have been accepted CVPR 2026! |
[2025/11] |
We have released a tech report of our Waymo Vision-based End-to-End Driving dataset and challenge! |
[2025/06] |
One paper has been accepted IROS 2025! |
[2025/05] |
Our co-CEO, Dmitri Dolgov, featured our SceneCrafter at Google I/O 2025! |
[2025/03] |
Our VP and Head of Research, Drago Anguelov, featured our SceneCrafter at Nvidia GTC 2025! |
[2025/02] |
My first paper at Waymo has been accepted to CVPR 2025! |
3D Perception Model Scaling
Yingwei Li, Xin Huang, Yang Liu, Yang Fu, Alex Zihao Zhu, Chen Song, Junwen Yao, Anant Subramanian, Hao Xiang, Weijing Shi, Yuliang Zou, Tom Hoddes, Zhaoqi Leng, Govind Thattai, Dragomir Anguelov, Mingxing Tan
3D Detection Sensor Fusion
Yang Fu, Yuliang Zou, Hao Xiang, Xin Huang, Yijing Bai, Chen Song, Weijing Shi, Govind Thattai, Dragomir Anguelov, Mingxing Tan, Yingwei Li
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026. Highlight
End-to-end driving
Runsheng Xu, Hubert Lin, Wonseok Jeon, Hao Feng, Yuliang Zou, Liting Sun, John Gorman, Kate Tolstaya, Sarah Tang, Brandyn White, Ben Sapp, Mingxing Tan, Jyh-Jing Hwang, Dragomir Anguelov
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
Diffusion Models Sensor Simulation End-to-end driving
Jiahao Wang, Zhenpei Yang, Yijing Bai, Yingwei Li, Yuliang Zou, Bo Sun, Abhijit Kundu, Jose Lezama, Luna Yue Huang, Zehao Zhu, Jyh-Jing Hwang, Dragomir Anguelov, Mingxing Tan, Chiyu “Max” Jiang
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025. Oral
Diffusion Models Image Editing Sensor Simulation
Zehao Zhu, Yuliang Zou, Chiyu “Max” Jiang, Bo Sun, Vincent Casser, Xiukun Huang, Jiahao Wang, Zhenpei Yang, Ruiqi Gao, Leonidas Guibas, Mingxing Tan, Dragomir Anguelov
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
[arXiv] [Paper] [Nvidia GTC Talk (staring at 37:21)] [Google I/O Talk (staring at 19:07)]
Action Recognition Domain Generalization
Jongmin Shin, Abhishek Maiti, Yuliang Zou, Jinwoo Choi
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2024. Oral
Action Recognition Data Augmentation Semi-Supervised Learning
Yuliang Zou, Jinwoo Choi*, Qitong Wang, Jia-Bin Huang
(* corresponding author)
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2023.
Panoptic Segmentation Semantic Segmentation Test-Time Adaptation Transfer Learning
Yuliang Zou, Zizhao Zhang, Chun-Liang Li, Han Zhang, Tomas Pfister, Jia-Bin Huang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.
Semantic Segmentation Semi-Supervised Learning
Yuliang Zou, Zizhao Zhang, Han Zhang, Chun-Liang Li, Xiao Bian, Jia-Bin Huang, Tomas Pfister
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021.
Sequential Learning Unsupervised Learning Visual Odometry
Yuliang Zou, Pan Ji, Quoc-Huy Tran, Jia-Bin Huang, Manmohan Chandraker
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.
Graph Network Scene Understanding
Chen Gao, Jiarui Xu, Yuliang Zou, Jia-Bin Huang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.
Human Sensing
Yuliang Zou, Jimei Yang, Duygu Ceylan, Jianming Zhang, Federico Perazzi, Jia-Bin Huang
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2020. Oral
Depth Estimation Optical Flow Unsupervised Learning
Yuliang Zou, Zelun Luo, Jia-Bin Huang
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018.
Object Detection Scene Understanding
Chen Gao, Yuliang Zou, Jia-Bin Huang
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2018
Domain Adaptation Semi-Supervised Learning Transfer Learning
Zelun Luo, Yuliang Zou, Judy Hoffman, Li Fei-Fei
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2017
Generative Modeling
Ruben Villegas, Jimei Yang, Yuliang Zou, Sungryull Sohn, Xunyu Lin, Honglak Lee
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2017
[arXiv] [Code] [Poster] [Project Page] [Slides] [SOHU News (Chinese)]
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