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.

View Yi’s webpage to learn more about her research and view her full list of publications.

Publications

A Deep Emulator for Secondary Motion of 3D Characters

Zheng, Mianlun., Zhou, Yi., Ceylan, Duygu., Barbic, Jernej. (Jul. 1, 2025)

Oral Paper

Proceedings of the 34nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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)

Perm: A Parametric Representation for Multi-Style 3D Hair Modeling.

He, Chengan., Sun, Xin., Shu, Zhixin., Luan, Fujun., Pirk, Soren., Herrera, Jorge., Michels, Dominik., Wang, Tuanfeng., Zhang, Meng., Rushmeier, Holly., Zhou, Yi. (Apr. 1, 2025)

Spotlight

Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025)

DMesh: A Differentiable Representation for General Meshes

Son, Sanghyun., Gadelha, Matheus., Zhou, Yang., Xu, Zexiang., Lin, Ming., Zhou, Yi. (Dec. 1, 2024)

The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

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)

NeMF:Neural Motion Fields for Kinematic Animation

He, Chengan., Saito, Jun., Zachary, James., Rushmeier, Holly., Zhou, Yi. (Dec. 1, 2022)

Spotlight Paper

The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022)

On the Continuity of Rotation Representations in Neural Networks

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

CVPR 2019