Yu-Cheng Chou

Yu-Cheng Chou

CS Ph.D. @ Johns Hopkins University, advised by Prof. Alan Yuille
Research Intern @ NVIDIA, mentored by Dr. Zhiding Yu

I work on embodied AI and robotics, connecting vision-language reasoning with spatial representations and robot action. My research spans explicit 3D reasoning and memory-conditioned world models for geometrically consistent, camera-controlled video generation.

Open to Research Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer opportunities in embodied AI and robotics in the San Francisco Bay Area. Expected graduation: May 2027.

I received my M.S.E. from JHU in 2024, advised by Prof. Zongwei Zhou, and my bachelor's degree from Wuhan University in 2022, advised by Prof. Deng-Ping Fan. Previously, I interned at Philips Research, Microsoft Research Asia, Tencent WeSure, and Kuaishou, working on generative data augmentation, causal modeling, and applied machine learning.

Experience

NVIDIA

Research Intern · Jan 2026 – Present

System-1 VLM for Physical AI.

Philips Research

Research Intern · 2024

Conditional diffusion for synthetic data augmentation.

Microsoft Research Asia

Research Intern · 2022

Causal modeling for segmentation under domain shift.

Tencent Wesure

Computer Vision Intern · 2021

Production OCR and automated data labeling.

Kuaishou

Video Transmission Algorithm Intern · 2020

Reinforcement learning for congestion control.

Selected Publications

* equal contribution

2026
GAR
Generative Adversarial Reasoner: Enhancing LLM Reasoning with Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
Qihao Liu, Luoxin Ye, Wufei Ma, Yu-Cheng Chou, Alan Yuille
ICLR 2026
2025
VLV
Vision-Language-Vision Auto-Encoder: Scalable Knowledge Distillation from Diffusion Models
Tiezheng Zhang, Yitong Li, Yu-Cheng Chou, Jieneng Chen, Alan Yuille, Chen Wei, Junfei Xiao
NeurIPS 2025
3DSRBench
3DSRBench: A Comprehensive 3D Spatial Reasoning Benchmark
Wufei Ma, Haoyu Chen, Guofeng Zhang, Yu-Cheng Chou, Celso M de Melo, Alan Yuille
ICCV 2025
Ultrasound
Ultrasound Image Synthesis Using Generative AI for Lung Consolidation Detection
Yu-Cheng Chou, Gary Y Li, Li Chen, Mohsen Zahiri, Naveen Balaraju, Shubham Patil, Bryson Hicks, ..., Alvin Chen
ISBI 2025
2024
Embracing Medical Data
Embracing Massive Medical Data
Yu-Cheng Chou, Zongwei Zhou, Alan Yuille
MICCAI 2024
Drag & Drop
Acquiring Weak Annotations for Tumor Localization in Temporal and Volumetric Data
Yu-Cheng Chou, Bowen Li, Deng-Ping Fan, Alan Yuille, Zongwei Zhou
Machine Intelligence Research 2024
2023
Pancreatic Cancer
Early Detection and Localization of Pancreatic Cancer by Label-Free Tumor Synthesis
Bowen Li, Yu-Cheng Chou, Shuwen Sun, Hualin Qiao, Alan Yuille, Zongwei Zhou
MICCAI 2023
DGNet
Deep Gradient Learning for Efficient Camouflaged Object Detection
Ge-Peng Ji, Deng-Ping Fan, Yu-Cheng Chou, Dengxin Dai, Alexander Liniger, Luc Van Gool
Machine Intelligence Research 2023
2022
VPS
Video Polyp Segmentation: A Deep Learning Perspective
Ge-Peng Ji*, Guobao Xiao*, Yu-Cheng Chou*, Deng-Ping Fan, Kai Zhao, Geng Chen, Luc Van Gool
Machine Intelligence Research 2022
2021
PNS-Net
Progressively Normalized Self-Attention Network for Video Polyp Segmentation
Ge-Peng Ji*, Yu-Cheng Chou*, Deng-Ping Fan, Geng Chen, Huazhu Fu, Debesh Jha, Ling Shao
MICCAI 2021 (Early Accept, 13%; Student Travel Award, 5.8%)
MedAI
Automatic Polyp and Instrument Segmentation in MedAI-2021
Yu-Cheng Chou
Nordic Machine Intelligence 2021 (MedAI-2021 Challenge Rank 2nd)

Blog

GPT-OSS
Well-Formed, Ill-Grounded: Visual Alignment Gaps Where GPT-OSS Falls Short of Qwen
Yu-Cheng Chou, Hardy Chen, Haoqin Tu, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Zeyu Zheng, Yuyin Zhou, Alan Yuille, Cihang Xie, Junfei Xiao
Notion Blog, 2025

News

Earlier news
  • 2025/063DSRBench accepted to ICCV 2025!
  • 2024/09Touchstone Benchmark accepted to NeurIPS 2024!
  • 2024/06Embracing Massive Medical Data accepted to MICCAI 2024.
  • 2023/06SynTumor accepted to MICCAI 2023.
  • 2023/01Started PhD at Johns Hopkins University.
  • 2022/08DGNet accepted to MIR 2023. PNS+ accepted to MIR 2022.
  • 2022/06Received First Prize for Outstanding Academic College Students (CCF).
  • 2021/03PNS-Net early accepted to MICCAI 2021!

Education

Johns Hopkins University

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2023 – Present

M.S.E. in Computer Science, 2024

Advisor: Prof. Alan Yuille

Wuhan University

B.S.E., 2022

Academic Service

Challenge Organizer

Embodied Spatial Reasoning (NeurIPS 2026, ICCV 2025),
Learning from Situated and Embodied Interaction (COLM 2026),
Body Maps (MICCAI 2024, ISBI 2024).

Conference Reviewer

CVPR2026, ECCV2026, ICLR2027/2026, NeurIPS2026/2025/2024, ICML2024, MICCAI2024/2023.