Stephen Jiezhi Yang is a research engineer at Google XR, focusing on building cutting-edge 3D foundation models. He earned his M.S. in CSE from Harvard University, where he also cross-registered at MIT. Before that, he graduated with high distinction from the EECS Honors Program at UC Berkeley, earning a B.A. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science.

Stephen is passionate about advancing enbodied intelligence in visual agents, enabling them to learn in 3D environments. He is deeply grateful for the privilege of learning from exceptionally talented individuals at BAIR Lab under Prof. Joseph Gonzalez, Prof. Trevor Darrell, and at the Interactive Robotics Group.

In industry, he was fortunate to join Applied Intuition as one of its early researchers, working under Chief Scientist Dr. Wei Zhan. He has also interned at Qualcomm AI Research and Robert Bosch Research on autonomous driving.