I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, affiliated with the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) and the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab (SVL). I study machine perception, reasoning, and interaction with the physical world, drawing inspiration from human cognition. Here is some information for prospective students and visitors.
Thank you for your interest in joining my group! Due to the large number of emails I receive, I cannot respond to every email individually. Please review the information below before contacting me. Thanks.
Current Stanford students: please fill out this form. For MS students and undergraduates, the minimum time commitment is 15 hours per week for six months.
Prospective postdocs and visiting graduate students: please email me directly with your CV. For visiting graduate students, the minimum length of a research visit is six months.
Prospective graduate students who are not currently at Stanford: please apply through the system and list me as a potential advisor in your application. There is no need to contact me, unless you have a particular research question/idea that you would like to discuss further. If you email me, please describe the research question concretely, and include your CV, transcript, and no more than one published paper.
Before joining Stanford, I was a Visiting Faculty Researcher at Google Research, New York City, working with Noah Snavely. I finished my PhD at MIT, advised by Bill Freeman and Josh Tenenbaum, and my undergraduate degrees at Tsinghua University, working with .