About Me

Hi, I am a third-year Ph.D. student at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), the University of Adelaide, supervised by A/Prof. Qi Wu and Dr. Yicong Hong. I am a member of the V3A Lab. Prior to my Ph.D. studies, I received my Master’s degree from the Australian National University, where I was supervised by Prof. Stephen Gould. In 2025, I interned at Adobe Research, where I collaborated closely with Dr. Yicong Hong, Dr. Chongjian Ge, Dr. Hao Tan, and Dr. Tianyu Wang. I am currently a Research Intern at Qwen.

I build explainable and embodied AI systems for autonomous agents that can perceive, reason, and navigate the physical world. My work focuses on integrating perception, reasoning, and long-horizon memory into a unified embodied intelligence framework that enables continuous learning and interpretable decision-making. I develop such systems by leveraging large multimodal reasoning models as decision policies, together with generative world models that support interaction, learning, and long-term evolution.

Some topics that I currently focus on include:

World Modeling and Simulation with Scalable Image/Video Generation: SAR, LightMover
Large Embodied Reasoning Models with Context Management and Agentic RL: NavGPT, NavGPT-2
Embodied Navigation Foundation Models with Sim2Real Transferability: NaVid, NavFoM

News

2026.01.05 I joined Qwen as a Research Intern working on VLA and VL post-train. Super excited to learn and work with the team!
2025.06.25 SAME is accepted to ICCV 2025. Thanks to all collaborators.
2025.04.14 I joined Adobe Research as a Research Intern working on text to video generation. Excited to work with the team at San Jose!
2025.01.27 One paper is accepted to ICRA 2025. Congratulations to Zerui!
2024.07.11 We are thrilled to see that @GoogleDeepMind shares the same perspective as our previous work NavGPT on instruction-following navigation agents and build fascinating robots based on Gemini 1.5 Pro! [Details]
2024.07.01 NavGPT-2 is accepted to ECCV 2024! Thanks to all collaborators.
2024.05.14 NaVid is accepted to RSS 2024! Congratulations to Jiazhao, Kunyu and Rongtao!
2023.12.09 Two papers are accepted to AAAI 2024. Congratulations and thanks to all collaborators.