Zelin Zhao

Zelin Zhao is a Machine Learning PhD candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Research Intern at Waymo, working on world models and simulation for autonomous driving. His research spans computer vision, generative modeling, and AI for science, with multiple first-author publications at venues including ICLR, CVPR, ECCV, NeurIPS, and AAAI. He is known for work on geometry-aware, physics-informed, and world-model-based learning frameworks, and has conducted research at Caltech's Anima Lab, MIT CSAIL, and SJTU's ThinkLab.