Scholar
Zhiding Yu
Google Scholar ID: 1VI_oYUAAAAJ
Principal Research Scientist & Research Lead, NVIDIA Research
Citations & Impact
Citations
24,839
H-index
56
i10-index
89
Publications
20
Co-authors
15
list available
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Winner, CVPR24 Challenge on End-to-End Driving at Scale (Hydra-MDP).
- 2nd Place, CVPR24 Challenge on Driving with Language.
- Winner, CVPR23 Challenge on 3D Occupancy Prediction (FB-BEV/FB-OCC).
- Winner, ECCV22 Robust Vision Challenge (RVC) on Semantic Segmentation.
- Winner, CVPR18 Autonomous Driving Challenge (WAD) on Domain Adaptation.
- 2nd Place, ICMI15 EmotiW Challenge on Static Facial Expression Recognition.
- Best Paper Award, BMVC 2020.
- Best Paper Award, WACV 2015.
- Best Student Paper Award, ISCSLP 2014.
- Most Influential NeurIPS Paper Award (SegFormer).
- Numerous publications listed on Google Scholar.
Background
- Principal Research Scientist & Research Lead at the Learning & Perception Research Group, NVIDIA Research.
- Interested in building general autonomy and intelligence across virtual and physical domains.
- Recent focus includes Vision Transformers, LLMs, multimodal LLMs, and vision-language-action (VLA) models.
- Applications span open-world understanding, reasoning, AV/robot perception-planning, and agentic systems.
- Works are characterized by state-of-the-art performance, scalable architectures, and data-centric strategies for real-world generalization.
