Presenter

Jun-Yan Zhu is an Assistant Professor at CMU’s School of Computer Science. Prior to joining CMU, he was a Research Scientist at Adobe Research and a postdoc at MIT CSAIL. He obtained his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and B.E. from Tsinghua University. He studies computer vision, computer graphics, and computational photography. His current research focuses on generative models for visual storytelling. He has received the Packard Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, and the UC Berkeley EECS David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize for outstanding doctoral research, among other awards.