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Jun-Yan Zhu

CMU associate professor and Nunchux AI co-founder; first author of CycleGAN and co-author of pix2pix

Jun-Yan Zhu is the Michael B. Donohue Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, where Zhu leads the Generative Intelligence Lab and works on generative models for computer vision, graphics, and computational photography. Zhu is also co-founder and Chief Scientist of Nunchux AI. Before joining CMU, Zhu was a Research Scientist at Adobe Research and a postdoc at MIT CSAIL. Zhu is first author of the CycleGAN paper on unpaired image-to-image translation and co-author of pix2pix, and co-wrote the BSD-licensed PyTorch implementation of both with Taesung Park.123456

Work

  • CycleGAN and pix2pix in PyTorch (external site: github.com)Open-source code

    First author of the 2017 CycleGAN paper (with Taesung Park, Phillip Isola, and Alexei A. Efros) and second author of the 2016 pix2pix paper. The README states that the PyTorch code was written by Zhu and Taesung Park, and the repository's BSD-style license names both as copyright holders.3456

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.

  • Research Scientist, Adobe Research1
  • Postdoc, working with William T. Freeman, Josh Tenenbaum, and Antonio Torralba, MIT CSAIL1

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Sources · reviewed Oct 13, 2026

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    Jun-Yan Zhu — homepage (Carnegie Mellon University) (external site: cs.cmu.edu)

    Jun-Yan Zhu (Carnegie Mellon University) · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    Generative Intelligence Lab — Carnegie Mellon University (external site: cs.cmu.edu)

    Carnegie Mellon University · Official page · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    junyanz/pytorch-CycleGAN-and-pix2pix README (external site: github.com)

    junyanz (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    junyanz/pytorch-CycleGAN-and-pix2pix LICENSE (BSD-style) (external site: github.com)

    junyanz (GitHub repository) · License · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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