Yiwei(Evan) Zhao

AI Researcher

Stanford, California, United States9 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Stackforce AI infers this person is a specialist in AI-driven graphics and animation technologies.

Generative Ai

9 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Los Gatos, California, United States

Generative AI
[Project lead] [Arxiv] Video4Spatial: Towards Visuospatial Intelligence with Context-Guided Video Generation
[Project lead] [CVPR 2025] PhysAnimator: Physics-Guided Generative Cartoon Animation
[COLM 2025, Oral]Correctness-Guaranteed Code Generation via Constrained Decoding

Generative AI

2 roles

Dec 2019 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Working on AI for character animation.
Academic Paper published as second author at SIGGRAPH 2021:
Starke, Sebastian, Yiwei Zhao, Fabio Zinno, and Taku Komura. "Neural animation layering for synthesizing martial arts movements." ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 40, no. 4 (2021): 1-16.
Academic Paper published as second author at SIGGRAPH 2020:
Sebastian Starke, Yiwei Zhao, Taku Komura and Kazi Zaman. "Local Motion Phases for Learning Multi-Contact Character Movements." ACM Transactions on Graphics 39(4), 2020

Aug 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

Working at AI application team, applying AI to Text2Speech generation and terrain generation.
Academic Paper published as first author at SIGGRAPH Asia 2019:
Zhao, Yiwei, et al. "Multi-theme generative adversarial terrain amplification." ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 38.6 (2019): 200.

Sep 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Stanford, CA

Working on the Human Computer Interaction research, as well as algorithm development for swarm robots assembly system and haptics illusion method for Virtual Reality.
Two papers published as first author.