Yanbo Cheng

Research Assistant in Computer Vision

Research Interests

My research focuses on robust 3D perception for autonomous systems. I developed "Difficulty Painting," a multi-modal fusion framework that projects learned detection difficulty scores onto LiDAR point clouds. This method functions as a 3D attention mechanism for hard-to-detect objects, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the KITTI benchmark. Complementing this applied work, I explore Scientific Machine Learning utilizing nonlinear dynamics to improve neural architecture efficiency.

Education

  • Honours BSc, Computer Science & Mathematics, University of Toronto, September 2021 – June 2025

Relevant Coursework

Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Reinforcement Learning, Linear Algebra, Probability, Statistics, Algorithms, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Database Systems, Optimization, Numerical Methods

Skills

  • Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, C++, C#, Go, R
  • ML&Data: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, PySpark, Neural Networks, RL, Scientific ML,
  • Image Processing, Pattern Recognition
  • Cloud/DevOps: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Azure
  • Other: Algorithms, Data Structures, REST, Agile/Scrum, English/Mandarin