Weikai Huang
Incoming PhD @ UW CSE RAIVN Lab
I am an incoming PhD student at the University of Washington, advised by Prof. Ranjay Krishna at UW CSE RAIVN Lab. I have also been fortunate to work closely with Prof. Jason Ren, Prof. Bharath Hariharan, Prof. Ali Farhadi, Dr. Jieyu Zhang, and PhD student Zixian Ma. Previously, I received my undergraduate degree from the University of Washington, where I was a student researcher at Allen Institute for AI.
My research focuses on visual intelligence in the wild and bringing it into embodied systems:
- 2D/3D/4D vision in the wild: detection, tracking, reconstruction, and generation (e.g., WildDet3D).
- Vision-centric policies for robotics (e.g., MolmoAct2).
- Unified multimodal training and representation learning (e.g., Molmo2).
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News
- [2026-6] I will be joining Salesforce AI Research as a Research Intern in Palo Alto from June to September 2026.
- [2026-6] Molmo2 received the CVPR 2026 Compute Transparency Champion award.
- [2026-5] MolmoAct2 released! Action Reasoning Models for real-world robot deployment — see the paper, code, models, and data.
- [2026-4] WildDet3D released! Promptable 3D detection in the wild with text, box, and point prompts. Try the demo or download the iPhone app.
- [2026-4] Molmo2 is selected as a Best Paper Candidate at CVPR 2026!
- [2026-2] 3 papers (SOC, Molmo2, TrajTok) accepted to CVPR 2026. See you in Denver!
- [2026-1] Our work Generate Any Scene is accepted to ICLR 2026.
- [2024-9] Our work Task Me Anything is accepted to NeurIPS 2024.
- [2024-7] Our work m&m’s is accepted to ECCV 2024.
Publications
(* denotes equal contribution, ♥ denotes core contributor)
Industry Experience
Salesforce AI Research — Research Intern (Incoming), Palo Alto, CA, June–September 2026
Allen Institute for AI (AI2) — Student Researcher, June 2025–June 2026
Education
University of Washington — Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2026–Present (Expected 2031)
University of Washington — B.S. (with Honors) in Computer Science, 2023–2026
Awards
- Outstanding Allen School Senior Award, 2026
- CVPR 2026 Compute Transparency Champion, Molmo2
- CVPR 2026 Best Paper Candidate, Molmo2
- CVPR 2026 Outstanding Reviewer
- UW CSE John and JoAnne Wisniewski Endowed Scholarship, 2024
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant:
University of Washington — CSE 455: Computer Vision, Autumn 2025
- Teaching Assistant:
University of Washington — CSE 493G: Deep Learning, Winter 2026
- Teaching Assistant:
University of Washington — CSE 493G: Deep Learning, Spring 2025
Professional Services
- Workshop Organizer: Synthetic Data for Computer Vision @ CVPR 2024, 2025 & 2026