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Basics

Name Yun Zhang
Label Incomming PhD student at UCLA's Mobility Lab
Email yun666@g.ucla.edu
Phone (310) 694-6791
Url https://HandsomeYun.github.io/
Summary Researcher in autonomous driving and intelligent transportation systems, specializing in multi-agent perception, sensor fusion, and cooperative perception.

Education

  • 2025.09 - Present

    United States

    Incomming PhD
    University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
    Mobility Lab
  • 2021.09 - 2025.06

    United States

    Undergraduate
    University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
    B.S. in Computational Mathematics, B.S. in Statistics and Data Science
    • Cumulative GPA: 3.823/4.0
    • Dean's Honors List (Fall 2021, Winter/Spring/Fall 2022, Winter/Spring 2023)
  • 2015.09 - 2021.06

    Athens, Greece

    High School
    American Community School of Athens (ACS Athens)
    • Weighted Cumulative GPA: 4.886/4.0
    • Final IB Score: 44/45

Publications

Research

  • 2024.05 - 2024.08
    Researcher
    HKU Summer Research Program
    Leveraged Large Language Models (MiniGPT-4) for multi-modality brain tumor segmentation, integrating four distinct MRI modalities (T1c, T1w, T2c, and FLAIR) onto a common space to enhance segmentation accuracy.
    • Awarded Best Presenter and received a PhD offer with a Presidential Scholarship.
  • 2023.02 - Present
    Research Assistant
    Mobility Lab, UCLA
    Contributed to multi-agent perception, sensor fusion, and infrastructure-aware autonomous driving, co-authoring five papers on multi-modal sensor placement (InSPE), misalignment adaptation in cooperative perception (AgentAlign), class-aware map construction (RelMap), spatio-temporal fusion for V2X perception (V2XPnP), and real-world cooperative perception datasets (V2X-ReaLO).
    • Participating in the U.S. DOT Intersection Safety Challenge and won $750,000
  • 2023.01 - 2024.12
    Research Assistant
    Vwani Roychowdhury's Lab, UCLA
    Contributed to the implementation and deep learning models of Hilbert (HIL) detector of PyHFO, a multi-window desktop application providing time-efficient HFO detection algorithms for artifact and HFO with spike classification
    • Reduced the detection run-time by 50 times compared to state-of-the-art with comparative study to ensure correctness.

Work

  • 2023.06 - 2023.12
    AI/Data Analyst Intern
    Office of Palo Alto Councilmember Greg Tanaka
    Analyzed voter data from public social media, HubSpot, and voter profiles within a California congressional district, identifying trends and developing predictive models to anticipate voting behavior
    • Utilized LLMs to generate personalized campaign emails and campaign services, increasing efficiency.
  • 2022.12 - 2023.03
    Data Analysis Intern
    Uber, Hong Kong
    Participated in the facial mask recognition project during the COVID-19 pandemic for backend utilities
    • Performed in-depth analysis and demand forecasting for Uber's regional operations, evaluating the influence of factors such as humidity, wind, time of day, as well as origin and destination

Skills

Autonomous Systems & Simulation
CARLA
OpenCDA
OpenSCENARIO Documentation
Scenario Runner
Multi-Agent & Cooperative Perception
V2X
Cooperative Perception
Sensor Fusion
Multi-Agent Perception
Intermediate Fusion
Multi-Sensor Misalignment
Programming Languages
Python
C++
JavaScript
C#
R
LaTeX
Bash/Shell Scripting
Machine Learning & Data Science
Pytorch
TensorFlow
Scikit-learn
Pandas
NumPy
MATLAB
Jupyter Notebooks
Medical Imaging & Biomedical Analysis
Segment Anything Model (SAM)
nnUNet
BraTS
Image Segmentation
DevOps & Cloud Computing
Docker
AWS
Git
GitKraken
Web Development & Frontend Technologies
React
Node.js
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Tableau

Languages

Chinese
Native speaker
English
Fluent

Interests

Cooking
Chinese Cuisine
Japanese Cuisine
Western Cuisine
Desserts
Fusion Cooking