Scholar
Yajie Zhao
Google Scholar ID: AdiIxrcAAAAJ
Computer Scientist at University of Southern California
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,045
H-index
17
i10-index
20
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Background
- Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC)
- Director of the Vision and Graphics Lab (VGL) at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies
- Research broadly focuses on 3D vision and computer graphics
- Aims to make 3D reconstruction, simulation, and rendering algorithms more efficient, robust, and interpretable—especially regarding how data influences model behavior
- Research is grounded in real-world challenges and often leads to early prototypes with practical applications
- Current and past projects include high-fidelity virtual human creation, performance capture, physically based neural rendering, large-scale terrain reconstruction and geo-localization, and differentiable physics
Co-authors