Zhuoran Yu


Senior Research Scientist at Autodesk


zhuoran.yu (at) wisc (dot) edu


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Curriculum Vitae

About Me

My name is Zhuoran Yu and I am a Senior Research Scientist at Autodesk, where I work on universal foundation models for 3D content generation and design intelligence. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UW-Madison, advised by Prof. Yong Jae Lee. Previously, I obtained my Masters in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology where I worked with Prof. Zsolt Kira. My research broadly focuses on multimodal foundation models, data-centric learning, and benchmarks/evaluation for visual and multimodal reasoning.

Publications

Experience

  • Research Scientist Intern, IBM Watson Lab (May 2025 - August 2025)

  • Research Scientist Intern, Meta FAIR (May 2024 - August 2024)

  • Research Scientist Intern, Meta CORE AI (May 2023 - August 2024)

  • Applied Scientist Intern, AWS Rekognition (May 2022 - August 2022)

  • Research Intern, SenseTime (May 2019 - December 2019)

Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant: CS 354 Intro to Computer Systems (September 2021 - December 2021)

  • Teaching Assistant: CS 7643 Deep Learning (January 2020 - April 2021)

  • Teaching Assistant: CS 7641 Machine Learning (January 2019 - April 2019)

Awards

  • First-year Scholarship, UW-Madison (2021)

  • Arthur Beaumont Memorial Scholarship, University of Waterloo (2018)