About

Xiuming Zhang 張修明

I'm currently a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Tesla Autopilot , working on 3D object and scene understanding for vehicle and robot autonomy. Before Tesla , I worked on computational photography at Adobe Emerging Products Group. I did my Ph.D. in computer vision and computer graphics with Bill Freeman at MIT CSAIL . During MIT , I also received mentorship from Jon Barron via internships at Google Research . My dissertation Shape, Reflectance, and Illumination From Appearance studies inverse rendering and its applications, including 3D shape reconstruction and free-viewpoint relighting. Here is a more formal, third-person bio.

Google Scholar xiuming6zhang at gmail dot com

Recent Experiences

News

Apr. 2023 DiffusionRig (personalized face editing) released for CVPR 2023.
Oct. 2022 Joined Tesla Autopilot to work on 3D perception.
Oct. 2021 Joined Adobe Emerging Products Group to work on computational photography.
Aug. 2021 Graduated from MIT ( doctoral dissertation ).
Aug. 2021 NeRFactor conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH Asia.
Dec. 2020 Neural Light Transport (NLT) accepted to TOG, to be presented at SIGGRAPH in August 2021.
Apr. 2019 MoSculp on exhibition in the MIT Museum ( photos ).
Jan. 2019 Awarded Snap Research Fellowship .
Dec. 2018 Oral presentation of GenRe at NeurIPS.
Sep. 2018 MoSculp featured as 9/19 MIT Homepage and covered by Forbes , BBC , etc.
Oct. 2016 Our paper on Bayesian modeling of Alzheimer's disease heterogeneity out in PNAS and covered by Psychology Today , MGH/HMS , etc.
May 2016 Our work on Alzheimer's disease subtypes awarded the Magna Cum Laude Award and oral presentation at ISMRM 2016.

Products

Full Self-Driving (FSD)
Worked on 3D perception and safety for E2E policies as part of FSD releases to both customer and Robotaxi fleets, contributing to both online models shipped to cars and offline data pipelines scaling to 20K GPUs.
Tesla 2022–2025
Actually Smart Summon
Helped vehicles perceive static and dynamic 3D scenes, allowing them to autonomously pick up their owners (e.g., from a store exit in the rain) without collisions.
Tesla 2024
Autopark
Developed the offline system for estimating 3D surroundings and predicting parkable space, enabling autonomous parking into parallel, perpendicular, and angled spots—marked or unmarked—in unseen environments.
Tesla 2023
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High-Fidelity Park Assist
Tackled various aspects of this next-generation, real-time 3D reconstruction system, covering deformable human body, car geometry given only partial views, and large-scale static scenes.
Tesla 2023

Recent Publications

* indicates equal contribution.

[paper] [bibtex]
Latent Atrophy Factors Related to Phenotypical Variants of Posterior Cortical Atrophy
Colin Groot, B. T. Thomas Yeo , Jacob W. Vogel, Xiuming Zhang , Nanbo Sun , Elizabeth C. Mormino , Yolande A. L. Pijnenburg, Bruce L. Miller, Howard J. Rosen, Renaud La Joie, Frederik Barkhof, Philip Scheltens, Wiesje M. van der Flier, Gil D. Rabinovici, Rik Ossenkoppele
Neurology 2020

Press Coverage

Side Work

Non-Referred Notes & Side Projects

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Webpage Monitor
A minimal Python webpage monitor that I use to track when a researcher I follow updates their webpage (e.g., adding a new paper).
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This Website
A simple, responsive webpage for academics. Feel free to use it, but on your page, please attribute the source to this page and HTML5 UP .
[doc] [code]
xiuminglib
My Python library for signal/image processing, 3D modeling and rendering with Blender, visualization, etc.
[paper]
ReML Estimation in Linear Models
A tutorial on Restricted Maximum Likelihood Estimation in linear regression and Linear Mixed-Effects Models.
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GrabCut
A MATLAB implementation excluding border matting and user editing.
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Basic Photometric Stereo
A MATLAB implementation of the basic photometric stereo algorithm.
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Bandgap of 2D Photonic Crystal
Replicating a classic textbook plot with COMSOL-MATLAB scripting.