Hello, I’m Daohan Lu.
Incoming Fall 2023 CS PhD student @ NYU Courant

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Who am I?

Coder, designer, maker, researcher, student, gamer. I observe the world as the unique person I am and use computer science to create new and useful stuff to help with what I think can be improved.

Education

2021-2022
Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Science in Computer Vision @ School of Computer Science
2018-2021
New York University
B.A. in Economics and Computer Science @ College of Arts and Science
Feb 2022 - Jul 2023
Research Assistant (ML&CV)
CMU Generative Intelligence Lab (w/ Prof. Jun-yan Zhu)
June 2022 - Sept 2022
Machine Learning Engineer Intern
PathAI
May 2021 - Aug 2021
Research Assistant (ML&CV)
NYU CILVR Lab (w/ Prof. Rob Fergus)
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
Research Assistant (ML&CV)
NYU MMVC Lab (w/ Prof. Yi Fang)
June 2019 - Aug 2019
Research Engineer Intern
Avigilon, Motorola Solutions

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My current work and research focus is machine learning and computer vision. Below you can find my resume and LinkedIn.

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Dance X Computer Vision

Dance X Computer Vision

A creative coding project that shows how modern computer vision allows people to make creative digital effects for dance without using dedicated hardware

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Paper: Meta Deformation Network

A novel, dynamically generated neural network for faster inferencing and higher parameter efficiency for 3D human shape correspondence.

Arxiv
Paper: Meta Deformation Network
Audi-Exchange

Audi-Exchange

AI-powered Hand Action Guidance to Assist Human-Human Interactions for the Blind and the Visually Impaired. Accepted to ACVR 2021 (https://iplab.dmi.unict.it/acvr2021/program) and presented as ICCV 2021 Workshop paper.

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Paper: Active Crowd Analysis for Pandemics

"Active Crowd Analysis for Pandemic Risk Mitigation for Blind or Visually Impaired Persons." Seondary Author, accepted to ACVR 2020 (https://iplab.dmi.unict.it/acvr2020/program)

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Paper: Active Crowd Analysis for Pandemics
App: N&P Remote Mouse and Keyboard

App: N&P Remote Mouse and Keyboard

Using your phone as your computer's keyboard and trackpad over Bluetooth or WiFi. A app I started in middle school with my good friend. 50K+ downloads.

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Github: Air Guitar with Hand Detection

Play air guitar unironically with your fingers (kind of).

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Github: Air Guitar with Hand Detection
Github: Weakly Supervised Point-to-Tell

Github: Weakly Supervised Point-to-Tell

Learning with only classification labels (weak supervision) to segment images to determine the type of object someone is pointing at. Trained with custom a synthetic dataset that combines VOC and custom hand images.

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Tech@NYU Talk: Intro to Computer Vision

A community talk about the basics of computer vision (neural networks,convolution operations, learning parameters, etc.).

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Tech@NYU Talk: Intro to Computer Vision