Bio

Jianing “Jed” Yang is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, advised by Joyce Chai and collaborating with David Fouhey in the SLED lab. His research focuses on understanding the 3D physical world through vision and language, enabling robots to act in such environments in a generalizable and controllable manner. He has published in and served as a reviewer for CVPR, NeurIPS, ICRA, ACL, and EMNLP. He was a co-leader of the University of Michigan team that won 1st place in the Amazon Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge. Before UMich, he earned a Master’s in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University, working with Louis-Philippe Morency and Matt Gormley, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.