I am a second-year PhD student (2024 Fall-) in Computer Science at the University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies, supervised by Prof. Mohammad Soleymani and Prof. Andrew (Wei-Wen) Feng.
I received my Master’s degree from University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies. During my Master’s, I took Research Internships at Motorola Solutions and at TuSimple. Previously, I was a Research Engineer at YITU Technology for one year. Prior to that, I got my Bachelor degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
My research interests mainly are in 3D Generative Models, Portrait Animation, and Video Perception.
Publications

SAT-SKYLINES: 3D Building Generation from Satellite Imagery and Coarse Geometric Priors
Zhangyu Jin, Andrew Feng
Under Review.

Discrete Facial Encoding: A Framework for Data-driven Facial Display Discovery
Minh Tran, Maksim Siniukov, Zhangyu Jin, Mohammad Soleymani
Under Review.

PromptGAR: Flexible Promptive Group Activity Recognition
Zhangyu Jin, Andrew Feng, Ankur Chemburkar, Celso M. De Melo
Under Review