Hello! This is Jianing “Jed” Yang (杨佳宁). I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan. I am a member of SLED lab, advised by Joyce Chai and frequently collaborating with David Fouhey. My work focuses on understanding the 3D physical world through vision and language, enabling robots to act in such environments in a generalizable and controllable manner, and using natural language as feedback to teach and improve embodied agents. My dream is to build and deploy household robots to homes around the world to help humans with daily tasks and needs.
Before joining UMich, I obtained my Master’s in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University where I worked with Prof. Louis-Philippe Morency and Prof. Matt Gormley on Multimodal Natural Language Understanding, Dataset Bias Analysis, and Machine Learning. I got my Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.
Before I delved fully into research, I worked as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services, intern and full-time.
Outside of work, you will find me skiing/cooking/baking/photographing.
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⭐️ I'm graduating and actively looking for full-time industry or startup research positions in Robotics and/or 3D Computer Vision starting in 2025. Contact me if you are hiring! ⭐️Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2025 (expected)
University of Michigan
M.S. in Machine Learning, 2020
Carnegie Mellon University
B.S. in Computer Science, 2018
Georgia Institute of Technology
Led a load balancing project to decrease system latency from 20 seconds to milliseconds.
Received award for technical soundness and leadership at 2019 Q2 AWS Identity organization meeting.
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