David A Ross

Software Engineer, Google DeepMind

Joined

February 2020

Names

David A Ross (Preferred)

David A. Ross

David Alexander Ross

David Ross

Emails

****@cs.toronto.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@google.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Software Engineer

Google DeepMind (deepmind.com)

2024 – 2026

Software Engineer

Research, Google (research.google.com)

2008 – 2024

PhD student

Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (cs.toronto.edu)

2001 – 2008

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Cordelia Schmid

2016 – Present

Coauthor

Jonathan Stroud

2018 – 2021

PhD Advisor

Richard S. Zemel

2001 – 2008

Expertise

action recognition

Present

video understanding

Present

video generation

Present

Publications

VoCap: video object captioning and segmentation from any prompt
Jasper Uijlings, Xingyi Zhou, Xiuye Gu, Arsha Nagrani, Anurag Arnab, Alireza Fathi, David A Ross, Cordelia Schmid
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
RECODE: Reasoning Through Code Generation for Visual Question Answering
Junhong Shen, Mu Cai, Bo Hu, Ameet Talwalkar, David A Ross, Cordelia Schmid, Alireza Fathi
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Video foundation models for animal behavior analysis
Jennifer J. Sun, Hao Zhou, Long Zhao, Liangzhe Yuan, Bryan Seybold, David Hendon, David A Ross, Bo Hu, Ting Liu
- bioRxiv
- Readers: Everyone
AI Choreographer: Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation with AIST++
Shan Yang, Ruilong Li, David A Ross, Angjoo Kanazawa
- ICCV 2021
- Readers: Everyone
MALT Diffusion: Memory-Augmented Latent Transformers for Any-Length Video Generation
Sihyun Yu, Meera Hahn, Dan Kondratyuk, Jinwoo Shin, Agrim Gupta, José Lezama, Irfan Essa, David A. Ross, Jonathan Huang
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
SceneCraft: An LLM Agent for Synthesizing 3D Scenes as Blender Code
Ziniu Hu, Ahmet Iscen, Aashi Jain, Thomas Kipf, Yisong Yue, David A Ross, Cordelia Schmid, Alireza Fathi
- ICML 2024 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation
Dan Kondratyuk, Lijun Yu, Xiuye Gu, Jose Lezama, Jonathan Huang, Grant Schindler, Rachel Hornung, Vighnesh Birodkar, Jimmy Yan, Ming-Chang Chiu, Krishna Somandepalli, Hassan Akbari, Yair Alon, Yong Cheng, Joshua V. Dillon, Agrim Gupta, Meera Hahn, Anja Hauth, David Hendon, Alonso Martinez et al. (11 additional authors not shown)
- ICML 2024 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
VideoPrism: A Foundational Visual Encoder for Video Understanding
Long Zhao, Nitesh Bharadwaj Gundavarapu, Liangzhe Yuan, Hao Zhou, Shen Yan, Jennifer J. Sun, Luke Friedman, Rui Qian, Tobias Weyand, Yue Zhao, Rachel Hornung, Florian Schroff, Ming-Hsuan Yang, David A Ross, Huisheng Wang, Hartwig Adam, Mikhail Sirotenko, Ting Liu, Boqing Gong
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Language-Guided Image Tokenization for Generation
Kaiwen Zha, Lijun Yu, Alireza Fathi, David A. Ross, Cordelia Schmid, Dina Katabi, Xiuye Gu
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
SceneCraft: An LLM Agent for Synthesizing 3D Scene as Blender Code
Ziniu Hu, Ahmet Iscen, Aashi Jain, Thomas Kipf, Yisong Yue, David A. Ross, Cordelia Schmid, Alireza Fathi
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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