Sergey Zakharov

I am a Senior Research Scientist and Technical Lead at Toyota Research Institute. My research goal is to build intelligent systems with a reliable 3D understanding of the physical world — so they can reconstruct it, generate it, and act in it.

My research spans 3D reconstruction, generative modeling, implicit neural representations, world models and simulation, domain adaptation, and self-supervised learning, with a strong focus on generalization and real-world transfer. I earned my PhD from the Technical University of Munich under Slobodan Ilic.