Zihao Zhang
Associate Professor
Institute of AI for Industries
Chinese Academy of Sciences
About Me
I am an Associate Professor at the Institute of AI for Industries (IAII), Chinese Academy of Sciences. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor at the Intelligent Processor Research Center, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, where I worked with Prof. Yunji Chen.
I received my Ph.D. from the Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, and my B.Sc. in Mathematics from Sichuan University's Zhufeng Honors Program.
I am also a member and organizer of AnySyn3D.
- Research Areas
- Computer Graphics; Embodied Intelligence
- Research Interests
- Embodied Navigation; Manipulation; Representation Learning for Physical Perception
Research
My long-term goal is to develop embodied robotic systems for science and research scenarios.
- Autonomous NavigationVision-and-language navigation and spatial reasoning in unseen environments.
- Robotic ManipulationGeneralizable policies that connect perception, language, and physical actions.
- Human MotionMotion perception, generation, retargeting, and interaction for embodied agents.
Recent News
Participated in the Youth Theory Study Group of the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS, and delivered a thematic presentation. Event link ↗
One paper was accepted to ACM MM. Congratulations to Dr. Yu Zhong!
Our team placed first in China and second globally in the XtaiPi Lab Experiments Track of the IEEE ICRA 2026 WBCD Challenge.
Our paper was selected as a 3DV 2026 Best Paper Candidate. Congratulations to Kunming and our collaborators!
One paper was accepted to AAAI. Congratulations to Dr. Yu Zhong!
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Our team won first place in the Social Navigation Track of the IROS 2025 RoboSense Challenge. Congratulations to the team!
Our work on morphology-generalizable reinforcement learning was published in Neurocomputing.
Selected Publications
Complete list on Google Scholar ↗
Run, Ruminate, and Regulate: A Dual-Process Thinking System for Vision-and-Language Navigation
Yu Zhong, Zihao Zhang, Rui Zhang, Lingdong Huang, et al.
Morphology Generalizable Reinforcement Learning via Multi-Level Graph Features
Yansong Pan, Rui Zhang, Jiaming Guo, Shaohui Peng, …, Zihao Zhang, et al.
Diffusion-Based Human Motion Style Transfer with Semantic Guidance
Lei Hu, Zihao Zhang, Yongjing Ye, Yiwen Xu, Shihong Xia
AttT2M: Text-Driven Human Motion Generation with Multi-Perspective Attention Mechanism
Chongyang Zhong, Lei Hu, Zihao Zhang, Shihong Xia
Pose-Aware Attention Network for Flexible Motion Retargeting by Body Part
Lei Hu, Zihao Zhang, Chongyang Zhong, Boyuan Jiang, Shihong Xia
Learning Uncoupled-Modulation CVAE for 3D Action-Conditioned Human Motion Synthesis
Chongyang Zhong, Lei Hu, Zihao Zhang, Yongjing Ye, Shihong Xia
Sequential 3D Human Pose Estimation Using Adaptive Point Cloud Sampling Strategy
Zihao Zhang, Lei Hu, Xiaoming Deng, Shihong Xia
Research Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaYoung Scientists Fund: Task-Driven Human Motion Disentanglement and Generation · Jan 2024–Dec 2026 · CNY 300,000 · Principal Investigator
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Industrial Artificial IntelligenceKey Project: XXXXX · Jan 2026–Jun 2027 · CNY 300,000 · Principal Investigator
- CRRC Science and Technology R&D ProgramKey Project · Jun 2026–Jun 2027 · CNY 2,000,000 · Principal Investigator