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Education

• Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University
  • Ph.D student, majoring in Computer Science, Sept 2025 – Present
  • Field of Interest: Robotic Manipulation, VLA, World Model, MLLM
  • Advisor: Mengdi Xu
• Department of Automation, Tsinghua University
  • B.E. in Automation, Sept 2021 – June 2025
  • GPA: 3.85/4.0
• Department of Statistics and Data Science, Tsinghua University
  • Minor in Statistics, Sept 2021 – June 2025
  • GPA: 4.0/4.0

Experience

• Department of Automation, Tsinghua University — Research Intern in Robotics
  • Sept 2024 – June 2025, Beijing, China
  • Mentor: Xiang Li
• MARS Lab, Tsinghua University — Research Intern in Robotics
  • May 2024 – June 2025, Beijing, China
  • Mentor: Hang Zhao
• Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory — Research Intern in Multimodal Models
  • July 2024 – Nov 2024, Shanghai, China
  • Mentor: Jifeng Dai
• Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University — Research Intern in 3DCV
  • July 2023 – April 2024, Beijing, China
  • Mentor: Yueqi Duan

Honors

• Excellent Graduate, Tsinghua University — June 2025
• Outstanding Graduate, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University — June 2025
• Comprehensive Excellent Scholarship (Luo Yue-Hua Scholarship) — Nov 2024
• Comprehensive Excellent Scholarship (SK Scholarship) — Nov 2023
• Comprehensive Excellent Scholarship (Tsinghua Scholarship) — Nov 2023
• Academic Excellence Scholarship (Departmental Scholarship) — Nov 2022

Publications

CATok: Causal Action Tokenization via Discrete Diffusion Conditional Annealing

Chenyu Zhang^*, Yuhang Cao^*, Daru Du, Yingxi Lu, Jiajun Liu, Yicheng Liu, Hang Zhao, Mengdi Xu^†

In Submission, 2026

Kinematics-Aware Diffusion Policy with Consistent 3D Observation and Action Space for Whole-Arm Robotic Manipulation

Kangchen Lv, Mingrui Yu, Yongyi Jia, Chenyu Zhang, Xiang Li^†

Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2026

HoVLE: Unleashing the Power of Monolithic Vision-Language Models with Holistic Vision-Language Embedding

Chenxin Tao^*, Shiqian Su^*, Xizhou Zhu^*, Chenyu Zhang, Zhe Chen, Jiawen Liu, Wenhai Wang, Lewei Lu, Gao Huang, Yu Qiao, Jifeng Dai^†

Published in IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

ToW3D: Consistency-aware Interactive Point-based Mesh Editing on GANs

Haixu Song, Fangfu Liu, Chenyu Zhang, Yueqi Duan^†

Published in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2024

Outreach

• Led the Tsinghua University Wine Association (TUWA) as President since Feb 2026, overseeing a large community of 2,000+ members and managing events, promotion, and overall financial operations.
• Won the National Championship in the Left Bank Bordeaux Cup China Regional Competition (Mar 2026, Blind Tasting); heading to France for the 2026 World Final in June.
• Three-time consecutive Capital University Games Baseball Champion (2023–2025) as a starting player for Tsinghua Baseball Team.