Sergey Zakharov

Sergey Zakharov is a Senior Research Scientist and Team Lead at Toyota Research Institute, specializing in 3D scene understanding, generative modeling, and perception for robotics. He earned his PhD from the Technical University of Munich under the supervision of Slobodan Ilic. He is best known for his work on Zero-1-to-3 for zero-shot 3D object generation from a single image, DPOD for 6D pose estimation, and recent projects including RecGen, PolaRIS, and the Humanoid Everyday dataset. His research focuses on bridging synthetic data and real-world transfer for robot learning and perception.