Yinda Zhang

Yinda Zhang is a Staff Research Scientist and Manager at Google, specializing in computer vision and 3D scene understanding. His work focuses on enhancing perception technologies for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) platforms.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University (2014-2018)
• M.Eng. in Electrical and Computational Engineering from the National University of Singapore (2010-2013)
• B.E. in Information Technology from Tsinghua University (2005-2009)

Professional Experience

• Google:
  • Senior Research Scientist and Manager (September 2022 - Present)
  • Senior Research Scientist (April 2021 - Present)
  • Research Scientist (December 2018 - Present)
  • Research Consultant (September 2017 - October 2018)
• Internships:
  • Matterport (June 2017 - August 2017)
  • Adobe (June 2016 - August 2016)
  • Microsoft Research (July 2015 - August 2015)

Zhang has contributed significantly to academic research, with numerous publications in top conferences related to computer vision and machine learning. His research also includes projects on depth image quality improvement and using synthetic data for scene understanding.123