Zhicheng Yan (严志程）
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Meta Reality Labs
Email: zhicheng.yan at live.com
Biography
Zhicheng is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs. He has been building and delivering cutting-edge on-device solutions to power the perception stack for Meta MR/VR products. He also conducts foundational research on 3D generative AI for Metaverse.
Before, Zhicheng was a Senior Manager to support the Object and Scene Understanding (OSU) team. The team's mission is to develop a deep and personalized understanding of the objects and scene in the egocentric data for next-generation Meta AR products. In the early stage of his career at Facebook, he worked on large-scale image and video understanding platform. His research interests mainly include computer vision and machine learning.
Zhicheng received his Ph.D from Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016. His supervisor is Prof. Yizhou Yu. Before that, he was a master student in the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University and a research assistant of State Key Lab of CAD&CG. His supervisor is Prof. Wei Chen. Zhicheng completed his Bachelor's degree at Zhejiang University majoring in Software Engineering in July, 2007. He is an Award Recipient of Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad.
