Yi Zhou

Research Scientist

San Jose

Yi joined Adobe in 2020. She received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on creating autonomous virtual avatars. She mainly works on 3D representation learning, specializing in 3D human modeling, reconstruction, motion synthesis and simulation. She served on the Siggraph 2023 Technical Papers Committee and Siggraph Asia 2024 Technical Papers Committee and will serve on Siggraph Asia 2025 Technical Papers Committee.

Check Yi’s webpage to learn more about her research.

Publications

Shape My Moves: Text-Driven Shape-Aware Synthesis of Human Motions

Liao, Ting-Hsuan., Zhou, Yi., Shen, Yu., Huang, Chun-Hao., Mitra, Saayan., Huang, Jia-Bin., Bhattacharya, Uttaran. (Jun. 13, 2025)

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)

Fast Complementary Dynamics via Skinning Eigenmodes

Benchekroun, Otman., Zhang, Jiayi., Chaudhuri, Siddhartha., Grinspun, Eitan., Zhou, Yi., Jacobson, Alec. (Aug. 6, 2023)

Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH journal track)

Normal-guided Garment UV Prediction for Human Re-texturing

Jafarian, Yasamin., Wang, Tuanfeng., Ceylan, Duygu., Yang, Jimei., Carr, Nathan., Zhou, Yi., Park, Hyun. (Jun. 18, 2023)

Highlight (10% of accepted papers, 2.5% of submissions)

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

On the Continuity of Rotation Representations in Neural Networks

Zhou, Yi., Barnes, Connelly., Lu, Jingwan., Yang, Jimei., Li, Hao. (Jun. 15, 2019)

CVPR 2019