Yuan Shen

Department of Computer Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Email: yshen47 AT illinois.edu

Research Interest

I am a Computer Science PhD Candidate at UIUC, advised by Prof. Shenlong Wang. My research interest lies in 3D vision and generative modeling. I have fun experience in 2D/3D/multi-modal scene generations, 3D super resolution, 3D physical fields and other self-driving related projects

During my PhD, I am fortunate to be mentored by David Forsyth, Katie Driggs-Campbell, Wei-chiu Ma, Duygu Ceylan, Niloy Mitra, Anna Frühstück, Zexiang Xu, Paul Guerrero, Chuhang Zou, Xiaohan Fei, Bryan A. Plummer and many other amazing researchers.

I am co-organizing the external speaker seminar at UIUC vision group. If you are interested in presenting, please let me know!

I am in the job market starting in Fall 2025. I am looking for industry applied/research scientist or computer vision engineer position, please contact me via LinkedIn or email if there is a position that I might fit!

News

2024.06 Our paper, "SuperGaussian: Repurposing Video Models for 3D Super Resolution", is accepted in ECCV 2024.
2024.02 Our paper, "Physical Property Understanding from Language-Embedded Feature Fields", is accepted in CVPR 2024.
2023.09 Our paper, "Sim-on-Wheels: Physical World in the Loop Simulation for Self-Driving", is accepted in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
2023.08 Internship at Adobe as Research Scientist in San Jose, CA
2023.05 Internship at Amazon as Applied Scientist in Bellevue, WA
2022.10 Our paper, "To Explain or Not to Explain: A Study on the Necessity of Explanations for Autonomous Vehicles", won Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2022 Progress and Challenges in Building Trustworthy Embodied AI Workshop (TEA 2022).
2022.09 Our paper, "SGAM: Building a Virtual 3D World through Simultaneous Generation and Mapping", is accepted in NeurIPS 2022.
2022.06 Our paper, "CoCAtt: A Cognitive-Conditioned Driver Attention Dataset", is accepted at ITSC 2022.
2021.11 Passed my PhD Qualifying Exam! Very excited to be admitted to PhD Candidancy at UIUC!
2021.07 Our paper, "Effectively Leveraging Attributes for Visual Similarity", is accepted at International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2021.
2021.03 Our peer-reviewed extended abstract, "AutoPreview: A Framework for Autopilot Behavior Understanding", is accepted in CHI2021 Late Breaking Work
2019.06 Internship at Reconstruct Inc. as Computer Vision Engineer in Champaign, IL
2019.05 Graduated with highest honor in UIUC and start CS PhD at UIUC

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Contact

Office 3307A, Thomas Siebel Center, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign