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General Information

Full Name Zeyu Zhang
Languages Mandarin, English
Affliation Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI)

Education

  • 2017 ~ 2022
    Ph.D.
    University of California, Los Angeles
    • Ph.D. in Computer Science
    • Advisor: Prof. Song-Chun Zhu
    • GPA: 4.00/4.00
  • 2017 ~ 2019
    M.S.
    University of California, Los Angeles
    • M.S. in Computer Science
    • Advisor: Prof. Song-Chun Zhu
    • GPA: 4.00/4.00
  • 2015 ~ 2016
    Exchange Student
    Arizona State University
    • GPA: 4.00/4.00
  • 2013 ~ 2017
    B.S.
    Hunan University
    • B.S. in Computer Science
    • GPA: : 4.29/4.50 | Rank 1/107

Experience

  • 2023.04 ~ present
    Research Scientist
    Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence
    • Developed perception models for robot manipulation in unstructured environments.
    • Built learning systems for dexterous robot manipulation skills.
    • Led a team in building a simulation platform for humanoid robot locomotion and manipulation with high-fidelity dynamics in large-scale environment.
  • 2018.06 ~ 2021.05
    Graduate Student Researcher
    Center for Vision, Cognition, Learning and Autonomy, UCLA
    • ONR N00014-19-1-2153: Scene Understanding for Robot Autonomy
    • DURIP N00014-20-1-2812: A Cognitive Robot Platform for Scene Understanding and Expeditionary Maneuver
    • ONR MURI N00014-16-1-2007: Understanding Scenes and Events through Joint Parsing, Cognitive Reasoning and Lifelong Learning
    • DARPA XAI N66001-17-2-4029: Learning and Communicating Explainable Representations for Analytics and Autonomy
  • 2018.09 ~ 2020.03
    Robotic Research Intern
    DMAI, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
    • Developed a tabletop companion robot system that reads, understands, and answers questions about books through natural user interaction.

Honors and Awards

  • 2015 ~ 2016
    • Two Dean's List Certificates, Arizona State University
  • 2015
    • Chinese Government Scholarship, Chinese Scholarship Council
  • 2015
    • National Scholarship, the Ministry of Education of the P.R.China
  • 2014
    • National Scholarship, the Ministry of Education of the P.R.China

Professional Service

Journal reviewer Nature Machine Intelligence, IJCV, IEEE T-RO, IEEE RA-L
Conference reviewer ICRA, IROS, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, ICCV

Hobby

  • Reading, Sketch, Penmanship