Zaid Tasneem

I'm a Research Scientist at NEC Labs America working on Agentic Simulation for autonomous driving leveraging Generative AI under Prof. Manmohan Chandraker. Before that, I was a visiting researcher at MIT under Prof. Ramesh Raskar.

I received my Ph.D. on the topic, "Privacy-Aware Computational Cameras and Vision Algorithms" from Rice University advised by Prof. Ashok Veeraraghavan, my M.S. from University of Florida under Prof. Sanjeev Koppal, and my B.S. from IIT Kanpur.

Research Interests: Agentic Simulations, Generative AI, Privacy in Vision, Diffusion Models, World Models, 3D Reconstruction, Autonomous Driving, Computational Imaging.

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Agentic simulator for controllable driving scene editing using natural language.

Evolutionary RL framework to co-evolve eye morphology and neural processing in embodied agents.

Video diffusion model for extreme ego-trajectory changes and vehicle insertion in driving videos.

Image editing model for multi-level semantic driving scene editing.

Privacy-preserving person detection using learned meta-optic phase masks.

Crowdsourced NeRFs at a global scale that prevents leakage of users' personal content

World's first privacy-preserving depth camera.

RGB guided adaptive depth sensing for MEMS LiDAR.

Foveating Depth Sensor on Mobile Robot

World's first adaptive depth sensor.

Compact MEMS based LiDAR.