Jun-Yan Zhu

Jun-Yan Zhu is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, affiliated with the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department. His research focuses on generative models, computer vision, and graphics. He holds a B.E. from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, with postdoctoral work at MIT CSAIL. Zhu leads the Generative Intelligence Lab, exploring human-creator collaboration with generative models.

• Affiliations: Robotics Institute, CMU Graphics Lab, CMU Computer Vision Group
• Education: B.E. (Tsinghua), Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)
• Research Interests: Generative AI, image/video synthesis, neural rendering, tactile sensing integration

Notable contributions include CycleGAN, pix2pix, and GAN compression techniques. His work has been commercialized in Adobe's Firefly and NVIDIA's Canvas tools.

• Awards: ACM SIGGRAPH Dissertation Award, David J. Sakrison Prize, CVPR Best Paper Finalist
• Lab Members: 10+ PhD students and researchers

Current projects include LEGO design synthesis, tactile-driven 3D generation, and generative model personalization.