Amy Zhao

Amy
Zhao

I specialize in generative models and real-time machine learning systems deployed on production VR devices, working at the intersection of research and product.

Human Motion Computer Vision Generative AI Embodied AI
2024 - Present Meta Reality Labs - Research Scientist Manager / Tech Lead
2019 - 2024 Meta Reality Labs - Research Scientist
2013 - 2019 MIT CSAIL - PhD, EECS
2010 - 2013 Microsoft / Caradigm - Software Engineer
2006 - 2010 University of Toronto - BASc, Engineering Science

Outside the Lab

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Selected Research

LLaMo teaser
2026
LLaMo: Scaling Pretrained Language Models for Unified Motion Understanding and Generation with Continuous Autoregressive Tokens
Z. Li, S. An, C. Tang, C. Guo, I. Shugurov, L. Zhang, A. Zhao, S. Sridhar, L. Tao, et al.
CVPR 2026
arXiv
EgoBody3M teaser
2024
EgoBody3M: Egocentric Body Tracking on a VR Headset Using a Diverse Dataset
A. Zhao*, C. Tang*, L. Wang, Y. Li, M. Dave, L. Tao, C. D. Twigg, R. Y. Wang
ECCV 2024 - *equal contribution
Github
Social Diffusion teaser
2023
Social Diffusion: Long-term Multiple Human Motion Anticipation
J. Tanke, L. Zhang, A. Zhao, C. Tang, Y. Cai, L. Wang, P. C. Wu, J. Gall, et al.
ICCV 2023
Github
Painting Many Pasts teaser
2020
Painting Many Pasts: Synthesizing Time Lapse Videos of Paintings
A. Zhao, G. Balakrishnan, K. M. Lewis, F. Durand, J. V. Guttag, A. V. Dalca
CVPR 2020
Webpage
Visual Deprojection teaser
2019
Visual Deprojection: Probabilistic Recovery of Collapsed Dimensions
G. Balakrishnan, A. V. Dalca, A. Zhao, J. V. Guttag, F. Durand, W. T. Freeman
ICCV 2019
arXiv
Data Augmentation teaser
2019
Data Augmentation Using Learned Transformations for One-Shot Medical Image Segmentation
A. Zhao, G. Balakrishnan, F. Durand, J. V. Guttag, A. V. Dalca
CVPR 2019 - Oral
arXiv Code
VoxelMorph teaser
2019
VoxelMorph: A Learning Framework for Deformable Medical Image Registration
Guha Balakrishnan, Amy Zhao, Mert R. Sabuncu, John Guttag, Adrian V. Dalca
IEEE TMI: Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2019. eprint arXiv:1809.05231
arXiv Webpage
Synthesizing Humans in Unseen Poses teaser
2018
Synthesizing Images of Humans in Unseen Poses
G. Balakrishnan, A. Zhao, A. V. Dalca, F. Durand, J. Guttag
CVPR 2018 - Oral
arXiv