Welcome to our new faculty (2024-2025)
Jun Gao, Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Computer vision, computer graphics, and generative AI
Jun Gao is currently a PhD student at the University of Toronto, and a research scientist at NVIDIA. He is interested in developing 3D generative AI models to create realistic, high-quality and diverse 3D content for reconstructing, generating and simulating lifelike 3D worlds, catalyzing applications across VR/AR, robotics, autonomous vehicles and more broadly the metaverse.
Gao will join Michigan September 2025.
Inigo Incer, Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Compositional system design, design automation, formal methods, control systems, computational logic, AI, cyber-physical systems.
Inigo Incer was most recently a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley. Incer’s group develops theory, software, and engineering methodologies to support complex systems design. They work closely with experts across various domains—such as aerospace, autonomy, synthetic biology, and transportation—to apply and extend the capabilities of these system-design techniques.
Incer will join Michigan September 2024.
Shubhanshu Shekhar, Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Machine learning, statistics.
Shubhanshu Shekhar was most recently a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from UC San Diego. He is particularly interested in developing sequential and adaptive decision-making methods that remain valid under minimal model assumptions. He has worked on nonparametric hypothesis testing, estimation, change detection, active learning, Bayesian optimization, and adaptive resource allocation.
Shekhar will join Michigan September 2024.
Ziyou Song, Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Modeling, estimation, optimization, and control of energy storage.
Ziyou Song was most recently an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. Prior to this position, he worked at Apple as a Battery Algorithm Engineer, and as an Assistant Research Scientist in ECE. He received his PhD at Tsinghua University. Using energy storage as a bridge, his research group connects automotive, transportation, and power system communities through interdisciplinary projects. He is committed to developing efficient, reliable, and clean power and transportation systems.
Song will join Michigan January 2025.
Junyi Zhu, Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Human Computer Interaction, fabrication, novel sensing technologies and devices.
Junyi Zhu recently graduated from MIT EECS Department and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He works at the intersection of novel sensing technologies, fabrication and human-computer interaction, with an emphasis on health and medical applications. He designs and fabricates personalized health and medical sensing devices for both in-field and in-clinic environments to provide more temporal and spatial information for physicians.
Zhu will join Michigan January 2025.