Jingyi Yu

Speaker Bio

Jingyi Yu is an OSA Fellow, IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Scientist, Director of the MoE Key Lab of Intelligent Perception and Human-Machine Collaboration. He received B.S. with honor from Caltech in 2000 in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. from MIT in EECS in 2005. He is the Inaugural Chair Professor of the ShanghaiTech University. He also serves as the Vice President of the university. Dr. Yu has been working extensively on computational imaging, computer vision, computer graphics, and bioinformatics. He has received the NSF CAREER Award, the AFRL Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, and the Magnolia Gold Award of Shanghai. He has won multiple Best Paper Awards at top conferences, including the 2025 ACM SIGGRAPH Best Paper Award, the 2025 SIGGRAPH Best in Show Award (Emerging Technology), and a 2024 SIGGRAPH Best Paper Nomination. His student received the 2024 CVPR Best Student Paper Award. He was the first to introduce large visual models into chip design and received DAC Best Paper Honorable Mentions in both 2024 and 2025. He has served on the editorial boards of leading journals and was Program Chair of CVPR 2021 and ICCV 2027, as well as General Chair of ICCV 2025.