Dr. Yuke Zhu is a leading mind in robot vision and learning. Dr. Zhu received his master’s and PhD from Stanford University. His doctoral thesis centers around closing the perception-action loop to make robot intelligence more generalized and applicable to less-controlled environments. As an undergraduate, he received dual degrees from Zhejiang University and Simon Fraser University. Dr. Zhu’s publications have won several awards and nominations, and his work has been covered by media outlets, such as MIT Technology Review and Stanford News. In addition, he’s had research collaborations with Snap Research, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and DeepMind Technologies.

He writes: "My goal is to build intelligent algorithms for robots and embodied agents that reason about and interact with the real world. My research lies at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. I focus on developing methods and principles of perception and decision making to realize general-purpose robot autonomy in the wild."