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101Open to Research Scientist positions</strong> in Computer Vision & Autonomous Driving â available from January 2027. 102 Reach me at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>. 103 </p> 104 <div class="social-links"> 105 <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6YMJhWkAAAAJ" class="button icon" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.3); font-size: 0.85rem;"> 106 Google Scholar <i class="fa-solid fa-graduation-cap"></i> 107 </a> 108 <a href="https://github.com/binyang97" class="button icon" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.3); font-size: 0.85rem;"> 109 GitHub <i class="fa-brands fa-github"></i> 110 </a> 111 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bin-yang-407b601b9" class="button icon" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.3); font-size: 0.85rem;"> 112 LinkedIn <i class="fa-brands fa-linkedin"></i> 113 </a> 114 <a href="mailto:[email protected]" class="button icon" style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.3); font-size: 0.85rem;"> 115 Email <i class="fa-solid fa-envelope"></i> 116 </a> 117 </div> 118 </div> 119 </div> 120 </div> 121 </div> 122 </div> 123 124 125 <!-- ======== News ======== --> 126 <div class="container blog main first" id="blog-main"> 127 <h1>News</h1> 128 <ul class="news-list"> 129 <li> 130 <span class="badge badge-eccv">ECCV 2026</span> 131 <strong>[June 18, 2026]</strong> First-authored paper accepted â <em>GhostPoint: Self-Supervised Representation Learning by Hallucinating Occluded LiDAR Structure</em> 132 </li> 133 <li> 134 <span class="badge badge-icml">ICML 2026</span> 135 <strong>[April 30, 2026]</strong> First-authored paper accepted â <em>Collaborative Learning for Semi-Supervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation</em> 136 </li> 137 <li> 138 <span class="badge badge-cvpr">CVPR 2026</span> 139 <strong>[Feb 21, 2026]</strong> First-authored paper accepted â <em>Towards Foundation Models for 3D Scene Understanding: Instance-Aware Self-Supervised Learning for Point Clouds</em> 140 </li> 141 <li> 142 <span class="badge badge-aaai">AAAI 2026</span> 143 <strong>[Nov 7, 2025]</strong> Co-authored paper accepted â <em>DOS: Distilling Observable Softmaps of Zipfian Prototypes for Self-Supervised Point Representation</em> 144 </li> 145 <li> 146 <span class="badge badge-wacv">WACV 2026</span> 147 <strong>[Sep 5, 2025]</strong> First-authored paper accepted in Round 1 (6.5% of submissions) â <em>FLARES: Fast and Accurate LiDAR Multi-Range Semantic Segmentation</em> 148 </li> 149 </ul> 150 </div> 151 152 153 <!-- ======== Publications ======== --> 154 <hr class="section-rule"> 155 <div class="container blog main"> 156 <h1>Publications</h1> 157 158 <div class="pub-card"> 159 <div class="pub-title">Collaborative Learning for Semi-Supervised LiDAR Semantic Segmentation</div> 160 <div class="pub-authors"><strong>B. Yang</strong>, A. Condurache</div> 161 <div class="pub-venue">International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026)</div> 162 <div class="pub-links"> 163 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17135" class="button icon" style="font-size: 0.82rem;">Paper <i class="fa-solid fa-file-lines"></i></a> 164 </div> 165 </div> 166 167 <div class="pub-card"> 168 <div class="pub-title">Towards Foundation Models for 3D Scene Understanding: Instance-Aware Self-Supervised Learning for Point Clouds</div> 169 <div class="pub-authors"><strong>B. Yang</strong>, M. Abdelsamad, M. Zhang, A. P. Condurache</div> 170 <div class="pub-venue">IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026)</div> 171 <div class="pub-links"> 172 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25165" class="button icon" style="font-size: 0.82rem;">Paper <i class="fa-solid fa-file-lines"></i></a> 173 </div> 174 </div> 175 176 <div class="pub-card"> 177 <div class="pub-title">DOS: Distilling Observable Softmaps of Zipfian Prototypes for Self-Supervised Point Representation</div> 178 <div class="pub-authors">M. Abdelsamad, M. Ulrich, <strong>B. Yang</strong>, M. Zhang, Y. Miron, A. Valada</div> 179 <div class="pub-venue">AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026)</div> 180 <div class="pub-links"> 181 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11465" class="button icon" style="font-size: 0.82rem;">Paper <i class="fa-solid fa-file-lines"></i></a> 182 </div> 183 </div> 184 185 <div class="pub-card"> 186 <div class="pub-title">FLARES: Fast and Accurate LiDAR Multi-Range Semantic Segmentation</div> 187 <div class="pub-authors"><strong>B. Yang</strong>, A. Condurache</div> 188 <div class="pub-venue">IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2026)</div> 189 <div class="pub-links"> 190 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09274" class="button icon" style="font-size: 0.82rem;">Paper <i class="fa-solid fa-file-lines"></i></a> 191 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt1es5q58kk" class="button icon" style="font-size: 0.82rem;">Video <i class="fa-brands fa-youtube"></i></a> 192 </div> 193 </div> 194 195 <div class="pub-card"> 196 <div class="pub-title">TULIP: Transformer for Upsampling of LiDAR Point Clouds</div> 197 <div class="pub-authors"><strong>B. Yang</strong>, P. Pfreundschuh, R. Siegwart, M. Hutter, P. Moghadam, V. Patil</div> 198 <div class="pub-venue">IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024)</div> 199 <div class="pub-links"> 200 <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25165" class="button icon" style="font-size: 0.82rem;">Paper <i class="fa-solid fa-file-lines"></i></a> 201 <a href="https://github.com/ethz-asl/TULIP" class="button icon" style="font-size: 0.82rem;">Code <i class="fa-brands fa-github"></i></a> 202 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0Sl4frM9UA" class="button icon" style="font-size: 0.82rem;">Video <i class="fa-brands fa-youtube"></i></a> 203 </div> 204 </div> 205 </div> 206 207 208 <!-- ======== CV ======== --> 209 <hr class="section-rule"> 210 <div class="container blog main"> 211 <h1>CV</h1> 212 213 <h2>Education</h2> 214 <div class="cv-entry"> 215 <div class="cv-date">2023 â present</div> 216 <div class="cv-body"><strong>Ph.D.</strong> in Computer Vision & Autonomous Driving â Bosch Research for AI à University of Lübeck<br> 217 Advised by Dr. Alexandru Paul Condurache</div> 218 </div> 219 <div class="cv-entry"> 220 <div class="cv-date">2021 â 2023</div> 221 <div class="cv-body"><strong>M.Sc.</strong> in Robotics, Systems and Control â ETH Zurich GPA: 5.67 / 6.0</div> 222 </div> 223 <div class="cv-entry"> 224 <div class="cv-date">2016 â 2020</div> 225 <div class="cv-body"><strong>B.Sc.</strong> in Mechanical Engineering â RWTH Aachen University Dean's List (Top 5%)</div> 226 </div> 227 228 <h2>Industry Experience</h2> 229 <div class="cv-entry"> 230 <div class="cv-date">Dec 2023 â now</div> 231 <div class="cv-body"><strong>
231Industrial Ph.D. Research Scientist</strong> â Bosch Research<br> 232 3D scene understanding for autonomous driving; first-author & core contributor at CVPR (2024, 2026), ICML 2026, AAAI 2026, WACV 2026.</div> 233 </div> 234 <div class="cv-entry"> 235 <div class="cv-date">Winter 2021</div> 236 <div class="cv-body"><strong>Research Engineer Intern</strong> â Volkswagen AG<br> 237 AR-based data augmentation for semantic segmentation; +5% mIoU improvement.</div> 238 </div> 239 <div class="cv-entry"> 240 <div class="cv-date">Summer 2021</div> 241 <div class="cv-body"><strong>Software Engineering Intern</strong> â BMW AG<br> 242 Large-scale driving data analysis via AWS/PySpark; Monte Carlo risk models for autonomous driving safety.</div> 243 </div> 244 <div class="cv-entry"> 245 <div class="cv-date">2019 â 2020</div> 246 <div class="cv-body"><strong>Research Intern & Bachelor Thesis</strong> â Schaeffler AG<br> 247 Heat pump optimization for electric mobility; <em>Patent No. DE102022100491A1</em>.</div> 248 </div> 249 250 <h2>Research Experience</h2> 251 <div class="cv-entry"> 252 <div class="cv-date">Summer 2023</div> 253 <div class="cv-body"><strong>Master Thesis</strong> â ETH Zurich, Autonomous Systems Lab<br> 254 Swin-Transformer LiDAR upsampling â CVPR 2024. GPA: 6.0/6.0.</div> 255 </div> 256 <div class="cv-entry"> 257 <div class="cv-date">Winter 2022</div> 258 <div class="cv-body"><strong>Research Project Assistant</strong> â ETH Zurich, AIT Lab<br> 259 Camera localization for 3D gaze estimation.</div> 260 </div> 261 262 <h2>Honours & Awards</h2> 263 <div class="cv-entry"> 264 <div class="cv-date">2025</div> 265 <div class="cv-body">Outstanding Reviewer Award â CVPR 2025, CVPR 2026</div> 266 </div> 267 <div class="cv-entry"> 268 <div class="cv-date">2026</div> 269 <div class="cv-body">Silver Reviewer Award â ICML 2026</div> 270 </div> 271 <div class="cv-entry"> 272 <div class="cv-date">2020</div> 273 <div class="cv-body">Schaeffler Top Student Award; Dean's List every semester at RWTH Aachen (top 5%)</div> 274 </div> 275 <div class="cv-entry"> 276 <div class="cv-date">2016â2018</div> 277 <div class="cv-body">Scholarship recipient â Bildungsfonds, Carl-Arthur Pastor Stiftung, Hans Hermann Voss-Stiftung</div> 278 </div> 279 280 <h2>Skills</h2> 281 <p class="text" style="font-size: 0.93rem;"> 282 <strong>Programming:</strong> Python, C++, CUDA, Bash · 283 <strong>Deep Learning:</strong> PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, TensorFlow, HuggingFace, W&B · 284 <strong>3D / CV:</strong> Open3D, PCL, MinkowskiEngine, MMDetection3D, OpenCV · 285 <strong>Infra:</strong> Linux, Docker, ROS, GPU clusters, Azure, AWS 286 </p> 287 288 <h2>Service</h2> 289 <p class="text" style="font-size: 0.93rem;"> 290 Teaching Assistant â Perception for Autonomous Vehicles, University of Lübeck (since 2024)<br> 291 Reviewer â CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ICCV, ECCV (2024â2026) 292 </p> 293 </div> 294 295 296 <!-- ======== Life ======== --> 297 <hr class="section-rule"> 298 <div class="container blog main" id="life-section"> 299 <h1>Life</h1> 300 301 <p class="text"> 302 Since May 2026, I volunteer at <a href="https://www.nikolauspflege.de">Nikolauspflege</a> in Stuttgart on weekends, accompanying children with visual impairments and helping with their daily activities. The experience has taught me a lot about how blind people organize their everyday lives. 303 </p> 304 305 <h2>Sport</h2> 306 <p class="text">I enjoy pretty much every sport â basketball, table tennis, football, badminton, you name it. I also love watching sport games and competitions, from local matches to major tournaments.</p> 307 <div class="photo-grid"> 308 <div> 309 <img src="images/pingpong.jpg" alt="Table tennis"> 310 <p class="caption">1st place at the Bosch internal PhD table tennis competition.</p> 311 </div> 312 <div> 313 <img src="images/paris2024.jpg" alt="Paris 2024 Olympics"> 314 <p class="caption">
314Paris 2024 Summer Olympics â watched several games and soaked up the atmosphere.</p> 315 </div> 316 <div> 317 <img src="images/milan2026.jpg" alt="Milano Cortina 2026"> 318 <p class="caption">Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.</p> 319 </div> 320 </div> 321 322 <h2>Photography</h2> 323 <p class="text">I love capturing the places I travel through â landscapes, fleeting moments, and beautiful scenes from around the world. Hiking trips are a favourite excuse to bring the camera out (while my wife documents everything as a vlogger). Travelling and collecting these glimpses of the world is something I genuinely treasure.</p> 324 <div class="photo-grid"> 325 <div> 326 <img src="images/eibsee.jpg" alt="Eibsee Bavaria"> 327 <p class="caption">Eibsee, Bavaria â the glacier lake at the foot of Zugspitze.</p> 328 </div> 329 <div> 330 <img src="images/fuji.jpg" alt="Mount Fuji"> 331 <p class="caption">Mount Fuji, Japan â caught on a clear morning from the hiking trail.</p> 332 </div> 333 <div> 334 <img src="images/stoos.JPG" alt="Stoos Switzerland"> 335 <p class="caption">Stoos, Switzerland â alpine views from one of my favourite hikes near Schwyz.</p> 336 </div> 337 </div> 338 </div> 339 340 341 <!-- ======== Footer ======== --> 342 <footer> 343 <div class="container"> 344 <p> 345 Bin Yang · <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> · 346 Built on the <a href="https://shikun.io/projects/clarity">Clarity Template</a> by <a href="https://shikun.io/">Shikun Liu</a>. 347 </p> 348 </div> 349 </footer> 350 351
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