Ning Yu

Staff Scientist at Netflix

Los Angeles, California, United States

About

Personal homepage: https://ningyu1991.github.io/ I am the lead research scientist at Netflix, leading efforts in video GenAI foundation, application, editing, 4D, final-pixel, agentic modeling full-stack R&D towards filmmaking businesses. I hold a joint Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and Max Planck Institute for Informatics where I was supervised by Larry Davis and Mario Fritz. I previously worked with Netflix Eyeline, Salesforce, NVIDIA, and Adobe. My selected works include Vista4D, MAViS, VChain, Virtually Being, DEGS, FlashDepth, Go-with-the-Flow, UniControl, X-InstructBLIP, ULIP-2, LayoutDETR, GlueGen, HIVE, Contrast and Attention GANs, Scalable GAN Fingerprints, Artificial GAN Fingerprints, GAN Fingerprints, Inclusive GAN, and Texture Mixer. My research was featured in media press such as Salesforce Newsletter, AlmostHuman, AIera, JiangMen, QbitAI, innovations report, and FoodPlus. I am constantly dedicated to academic services, such as serving as (Lead) Area Chair for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, AISTATS, WACV, and BMVC. I am a recipient of Twitch (Amazon) Research Fellowship, Microsoft Young Fellowship, Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist x2, and SPIE Best Student Paper Finalist.

Experience

  • Netflix ()
    • Staff Scientist
      Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

      Leading efforts for video GenAI foundation, application, world, agentic, final-pixel modeling full-stack R&D towards filmmaking businesses

    • Staff Scientist at Eyeline Labs
      Mar 2024 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Leading efforts in visual and multimodal generative AI https://www.eyelinestudios.com/en

  • Salesforce ()
    • Senior Research Scientist
      Feb 2023 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Multimodal learning and agent modeling

    • Research Scientist
      Oct 2021 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Generative AI for designs, marketing, and commerce

  • Research Assistant at Max Planck Institute for Informatics
    Aug 2018 - Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Advisor: Mario Fritz Project: Towards Extracting, Analyzing, and Utilizing GANs Fingerprints

  • Research Assistant at University of Maryland
    Aug 2018 - Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    Advisor: Larry Davis Project: Towards Extracting, Analyzing, and Utilizing GANs Fingerprints

  • Research Intern at NVIDIA
    Jun 2020 - Nov 2020 · 6 mos

    Mentors: Guilin Liu, Aysegul Dundar, Andrew Tao, and Bryan Catanzaro Project: Pushing the Limit of Generative Adversarial Networks