I’m joining Waymo to work on autonomous driving in June 2026! I’m a now a final year Ph.D. in Computer Science at Princeton University. My current research advisor is Prof. Jia Deng. I received my M.S. degree from the Robitics Instititute at Carnegie Mellon University, 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

Department of Computer Science, Princeton University
35 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-5233
Email: zuoym [at] princeton.edu