Zhicheng Yan

Zhicheng Yan is an accomplished researcher with extensive experience in the fields of computer vision, machine learning, and augmented reality. At Meta, Zhicheng served as a Senior Staff Research Scientist, focusing on developing on-device efficient solutions for VR products and conducting foundational research in 3D generative AI. Previously, as a Senior Manager, Zhicheng led the Object and Scene Understanding team within Reality Labs, managing efforts to enhance personalized understanding of objects and scenes in egocentric data. Prior roles at Facebook AI included Staff Research Scientist, where team leadership focused on understanding objects and environments in egocentric videos to improve AR experiences. Zhicheng's academic background includes a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Master's degree from Zhejiang University.