Yufei Zhang

I am a Senior Research Scientist at ByteDance Inc, working with the PICO team.

I graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Computer Engineering & Applied Mathematics) and Xi'an Jiaotong University. Previously, I was at MyoLab AI, Meta Reality Labs, and Amazon AWS.

I build Human-Embodied AI that perceives, reasons, and acts like (and beyond) humans. My research integrates Physics and Probabilistic Modeling into scalable learning systems.

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News

Jul 2026 One ECCV'26 paper on inferring object physical properties from a single image.NEW

Jun 2026 Three CVPR'26 papers (two highlights, one workshop) on grounding human motion understanding with physics.

Feb 2026 One TMLR'26 paper on discovering probabilistic relations with LLMs.

Jul 2025 One ICCV'25 paper on grounding 3D hand motion recovery with intuitive physics.

May 2025 Awarded the Charles M. Close Doctoral Prize at RPI.

Jul 2024 One ECCV'24 paper on 3D hand reconstruction leveraging anatomy, biomechanics, physics priors, and probabilistic modeling.

Feb 2024 One CVPR'24 paper on human dynamics estimation (motion+force) from monocular cameras.

Oct 2023 One WACV'24 paper on integrating physics motion law for human motion prediction.

Jul 2023 One ICCV'23 paper on 3D human body reconstruction from images with generic body knowledge and real-time uncertainty quantification (aleatoric & epistemic).

Jun 2023 One CVPR'23 workshop paper on robust partial fingerprint recognition.