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. My PhD advisor is Prof. Shenlong Wang. I am widely interested in topics related to 3D generative modeling in computer vision. My past and ongoing projects involve scene-level generation, editing, 3D representation and 3D-related downstream application.

During my Phd, I am fortunate to collaborate with 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, Shengze Wang and many other amazing researchers.

Previously, I completed my Bachelor's degree with the highest honor at UIUC, with a major in Computer Science and minor in Mathematics. I was a research assistant at the Data-Driven Design group, led by Prof. Ranjitha Kumar. My undergrad research focused on fashion AI.

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

Inspired by Wei-chiu Ma, I have decided to commit 1~2 hours every week to provide guidance, suggestions, and/or mentorships for students from underrepresented groups or whoever is in need. Please fill in this form if you are interested.

News

2024.02 Our paper, "Physical Property Understanding from Language-Embedded Feature Fields", is accepted for publication in CVPR 2024.
2023.09 Our paper, "Sim-on-Wheels: Physical World in the Loop Simulation for Self-Driving", is accepted for publication 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 at 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 at 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