👋 About Me

I am a PhD student in the Computer Vision Lab at the University of Virginia, advised by Prof. Zezhou Cheng. I received my bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2023.

My research interests lie in 3D computer vision, particularly 3D understanding, reconstruction, and generation. I am also interested in their applications in physical AI, including autonomous driving and robotics.

📝 Selected Publications

Preprint

VLGA: Vision-Language-Geometry-Action Models for Autonomous Driving

Jin Yao, Dhruva Dixith Kurra, Tom Lampo, Zezhou Cheng, Danhua Guo, Burhan Yaman

arXiv ｜Project Page ｜Code (coming soon)

3DV 2026

Open Vocabulary Monocular 3D Object Detection

Jin Yao, Hao Gu, Xuweiyi Chen, Jiayun Wang, Zezhou Cheng

arXiv ｜Project Page｜Code stars…

NeurIPS 2025

LabelAny3D: Label Any Object 3D in the Wild

Jin Yao*, Radowan Mahmud Redoy*, Sebastian Elbaum, Matthew B. Dwyer, Zezhou Cheng

Paper ｜Project Page ｜Code stars…

ACL 2024

Machine Unlearning of Pre-trained Large Language Models

Jin Yao, Eli Chien, Minxin Du, Xinyao Niu, Tianhao Wang, Zezhou Cheng, Xiang Yue

Paper｜arXiv｜Code stars…｜Data

💻 Experiences

Uber

Research Intern, 2026.05 - 2026.08

Vision-Language-Action Models and World Action Models for autonomous driving

📚 Teaching

• Teaching assistant, Computer Vision (CS 4501), University of Virginia, Spring 2026 (link)
• Teaching assistant, 3D Computer Vision (CS 6501), University of Virginia, Fall 2025 (link)
• Teaching assistant, Computer Vision (CS 4501), University of Virginia, Spring 2025 (link)

🗂️ Academic Service

• Reviewer for 3DV 2026, TMLR, AAAI 2026, IJCAI 2026