I work with the Perception team at Waymo on autonomous driving.

I finished my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Princeton University in 2026, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Jia Deng. I received my M.S. degree from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2021, working with Prof. Katerina Fragkiadaki. I received my B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2019.

My research focus is 3D computer vision and its application in autonomous driving, robotics, and XR. I’m especially interested in developing generalizable methods for 3D scene reconstruction, including monocular depth estimation, sensor fusion, and multi-view scene reconstruction and rendering. Since real-world data with high-quality 3D ground-truth is expensive and laborious to collect, I’m also interested in creating diverse and photo-realistic synthetic data using procedural generation.

I’m a big fan of animals. In my spare time, I do birding and wildlife photography. Check out my selected photo gallery!

Contact

Waymo
680 E Middlefield Rd, Mountain View, CA 94043
Email: zuoyiming17 [at] gmail [dot] com