Charles R. Qi

Staff Research Scientist, Waymo


I am a research scientist and manager at Waymo (2019-Present), leading a team to build the perception foundation models for our next-gen autonomy system. At Waymo, I also worked on 3D perception, auto labeling and data-driven simulation, leading to 15+ publications at top-tier conferences and multiple successful launches.

In 2018-2019, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) where I was fortunate to have worked with stellar researchers like Kaiming He, Saining Xie and Xinlei Chen on several projects about 3D perception (VoteNet, ImVoteNet, PointContrast). Before that, I spent five memorable years (2013-2018) at Stanford University obtaining my Ph.D., at Stanford AI Lab and Geometric Computation Group, advised by Professor Leonidas J. Guibas. During my Ph.D. we had a series of work that started the field of 3D deep learning (PointNet, PointNet++ and Multi-View/Volumetric CNNs) and explored their various applications for 3D scene understanding (detection, segmentation, scene flow, shape synthesis). Such models have been widely used in both academia and industry (autonomous driving, augmented reality and robotics). Prior to joining Stanford, I got my B.Eng. from Tsinghua University.

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Publications

Mahyar Najibi, Jingwei Ji, Yin Zhou, Charles R. Qi, Xinchen Yan, Scott Ettinger, Dragomir Anguelov
ICCV 2023
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Yingwei Li*, Charles R. Qi*, Yin Zhou, Chenxi Liu, Dragomir Anguelov (*: equal contribution)
CVPR 2023
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Bokui Shen, Xinchen Yan, Charles R. Qi, Mahyar Najibi, Boyang Deng, Leonidas Guibas, Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov
CVPR 2023
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Congyue Deng, Chiyu Max Jiang, Charles R. Qi, Xinchen Yan, Yin Zhou, Leonidas Guibas, Dragomir Anguelov
CVPR 2023
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Minghua Liu, Yin Zhou, Charles R. Qi, Boqing Gong, Hao Su, Dragomir Anguelov
ECCV 2022, Oral Presentation
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Chiyu (Max) Jiang, Mahyar Najibi, Charles R. Qi, Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov
ECCV 2022
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Xuanyu Zhou*, Charles R. Qi*, Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov (*: equal contribution)
CVPR 2022
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Boyang Deng, Charles R. Qi, Mahyar Najibi, Thomas Funkhouser, Yin Zhou, Dragomir Anguelov
Neurips 2021
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Qiangeng Xu, Yin Zhou, Weiyue Wang, Charles R. Qi, Dragomir Anguelov
ICCV 2021
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S. Ettinger, S. Cheng, B. Caine, C. Liu, H. Zhao, S. Pradhan, Y. Chai, B. Sapp, Charles R. Qi, Y. Zhou, Z. Yang, A. Chouard, P. Sun, J. Ngiam, V. Vasudevan, A. McCauley, J. Shlens, D. Anguelov
ICCV 2021
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Charles R. Qi, Yin Zhou, Mahyar Najibi, Pei Sun, Khoa Vo, Boyang Deng, Dragomir Anguelov
CVPR 2021
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Saining Xie, Jiatao Gu, Demi Guo, Charles R. Qi, Leonidas J. Guibas, Or Litany
ECCV 2020, Spotlight
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Charles R. Qi*, Xinlei Chen*, Or Litany, Leonidas J. Guibas (*: equal contribution)
CVPR 2020
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Charles R. Qi, Or Litany, Kaiming He, Leonidas J. Guibas
ICCV 2019, Oral Presentation,

Best Paper Award Nomination (one of the seven among 1,075 accepted papers) [link]

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Hugues Thomas, Charles R. Qi, Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud, Beatriz Marcotegui, Francois Goulette, Leonidas J. Guibas
ICCV 2019
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Chong Xiang, Charles R. Qi, Bo Li
CVPR 2019
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Xingyu Liu*, Charles R. Qi*, Leonidas Guibas (*: equal contribution)
CVPR 2019
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Charles R. Qi, Wei Liu, Chenxia Wu, Hao Su, and Leonidas J. Guibas
CVPR 2018

Our method is simple, efficient and effective, ranking at first place for KITTI 3D object detection benchmark on all categories (11/27/2017).

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Charles R. Qi, Li Yi, Hao Su, and Leonidas J. Guibas
NIPS 2017
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Charles R. Qi*, Hao Su*, Kaichun Mo, and Leonidas J. Guibas (*: equal contribution)
CVPR 2017, Oral Presentation
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Angela Dai, Charles R. Qi, Matthias Niessner
CVPR 2017, Spotlight Presentation
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Charles R. Qi*, Hao Su*, Matthias Niessner, Angela Dai, Mengyuan Yan, and Leonidas J. Guibas (*: equal contribution)
CVPR 2016,Spotlight Presentation
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Yangyan Li*, Hao Su*, Charles R. Qi, Noa Fish, Daniel Cohen-Or, and Leonidas J. Guibas (*: equal contribution)
SIGGRAPH Asia 2015
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Hao Su*, Charles R. Qi*, Yangyan Li, Leonidas J. Guibas (*equal contribution)
ICCV 2015, Oral Presentation
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Talks