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Hi, I am a Research Scientist at the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, leading research on dexterous manipulation and generative models, advised by Prof. Weinan Zhang and Prof. Chunhua Shen.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2025, supervised by Prof. Minyi Guo and Prof. Hongzi Zhu. Besides, I was a student in the Wu WenjunAI Honours Class (吴文俊班), advised by Prof. Cewu Lu. I have also gained international and industrial research experience. I conducted research at UCLA under the supervision of Prof. Bolei Zhou, and previously worked as a research intern at OpenDriveLab, advised by Prof. Hongyang Li, where I was involved in autonomous driving–related research.

My research interests include Robotics (Dextrous Manipulation), Gen AI, and Embodied AI.

🔥 News

📝 Publications

🔥Highlighted Papers

Preprint 2026
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EgoExplorer: A Vision-Motion-Touch Observatory for Human Loco-Manipulation In Situ
Yunsong Zhou*†, Xuekun Jiang*, Haiqi Shen*, Hangxu Liu, Chaojian Shi, Yujie Liu, Jingyuan Li, Haoran Yang, Jiafei Cao, Dongzhan Zhou, Dong Wang, Yao Mu, Chunhua Shen, Weinan Zhang†

Preprint 2026
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InternW0-Δ: A World Action Model Bridging Predictive Dynamics and Actions with 20K+ Hours of Open Data
Xingyu Miao, Zizun Li, Baole Fang, Kaiwen Song, Tenghui Wang, Hanxue Zhang, Yating Wang, Xudong Li, Yuping He, Xueyuan Wei, Chao Gao, Xijie Yang, Yingxiang Xu, Kerui Ren, Wenqi Guo, Jianjun Zhou, Xinzhe Wang, Weiguang Zhao, Ni Yang, Zetao Cai, Yufei Xue, Hengjie Li, Zeyu He, Yuanzhen Zhou, Rong Fu, Jianyang Zhang, Siwei Cui, Fuxian Huang, Yunsong Zhou, Xing Gao, Yifei Yao, Qiaojun Yu, Kailin Li, Ming Zhou, Mu Huang, Xinyue Li, Wenze Cui, Bingqi Jiang, Xueyue Zhu, Junting Dong, Haoyu Guo, Tao Lu, Mulin Yu, Bowen Zhou, Bin Zhao, Tianfan Xue, Weinan Zhang, Chunhua Shen

ECCV 2026
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SIM1: Physics-Aligned Simulator as Zero-Shot Data Scaler in Deformable Worlds
Yunsong Zhou*†, Hangxu Liu*, Xuekun Jiang*, Xing Shen*, Yuanzhen Zhou, Hui Wang, Baole Fang, Yang Tian, Mulin Yu, Qiaojun Yu, Li Ma, Hengjie Li, Hanqing Wang, Jia Zeng, Jiangmiao Pang†

CVPR 2026
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ForceVLA2: Unleashing Hybrid Force-Position Control with Force Awareness for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Yang Li, Hongru Jiang, Junjie Xia, Hongquan Zhang, Jinda Du, Yunsong Zhou†, Jia Zeng†, Ce Hao, Jieji Ren, Qiaojun Yu†, Cewu Lu†, Yu Qiao, Jiangmiao Pang

Tech Report
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InternVLA-A1: Unifying Understanding, Generation and Action for Robotic Manipulation
Junhao Cai, Zetao Cai, Jiafei Cao, Yilun Chen, Zeyu He, Lei Jiang, Hang Li, Hengjie Li, Yang Li, Yufei Liu, Yanan Lu, Qi Lv, Haoxiang Ma, Jiangmiao Pang, Yu Qiao, Zherui Qiu, Yanqing Shen, Xu Shi, Yang Tian, Bolun Wang, Hanqing Wang, Jiaheng Wang, Tai Wang, Xueyuan Wei, Chao Wu, Yiman Xie, Boyang Xing, Yuqiang Yang, Yuyin Yang, Qiaojun Yu, Feng Yuan, Jia Zeng, Jingjing Zhang, Shenghan Zhang, Shi Zhang, Zhuoma Zhaxi, Bowen Zhou, Yuanzhen Zhou, Yunsong Zhou, Hongrui Zhu, Yangkun Zhu, Yuchen Zhu

Embodied AI

ICML 2026
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SoMA: A Real-to-Sim Neural Simulator for Robotic Soft-body Manipulation
Mu Huang, Hui Wang, Kerui Ren, Linning Xu, Yunsong Zhou, Mulin Yu, Bo Dai, Jiangmiao Pang

Preprint 2026
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Data-Free Continual Learning for World Action Model with Rectified Generative Replay
Kaipeng Fang, Hangxu Liu, Chaojian Shi, Yunsong Zhou†, Hongzi Zhu, Minyi Guo, Jingkuan Song, Lianli Gao†

Preprint 2026
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GAUGE: A Measurement-Grounded Benchmark for Physical Fidelity in Simulation Engines and Video World Models
Shuai Wang, Yaxin Feng, Xuekun Jiang, Shihan Tian, Ningyu Yan, Xing Shen, Chaoyang Lyu, Hui Wang, Yunsong Zhou, Hanqing Wang, Jiangmiao Pang, Yang Xiang, Xing Gao, Chunhua Shen, Weinan Zhang

Mobile Vision

ICCV 2025
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Decoupled Diffusion Sparks Adaptive Scene Generation
Yunsong Zhou*, Naisheng Ye*, William Ljungbergh, Tianyu Li, Jiazhi Yang, Zetong Yang, Hongzi Zhu, Christoffer Petersson, Hongyang Li

NeurIPS 2024
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SimGen: Simulator-conditioned Driving Scene Generation
Yunsong Zhou, Michael Simon, Zhenghao Peng, Sicheng Mo, Hongzi Zhu, Minyi Guo, and Bolei Zhou

ECCV 2024
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Embodied Understanding of Driving Scenarios
Yunsong Zhou*, Linyan Huang*, Qingwen Bu*, Jia Zeng, Tianyu Li, Hang Qiu, Hongzi Zhu, Minyi Guo, Yu Qiao, and Hongyang Li

TPAMI 2025
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Exploiting Grounding Depth Estimation for Mobile Monocular 3D Object Detection
Yunsong Zhou, Quan Liu, Hongzi Zhu, Yunzhe Li, Shan Chang, and Minyi Guo

CVPR 2024
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Extend Your Own Correspondences: Unsupervised Distant Point Cloud Registration by Progressive Distance Extension
Quan Liu, Hongzi Zhu, Zhenxi Wang, Yunsong Zhou, Shan Chang, and Minyi Guo

ICCV 2023
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Density-invariant Features for Distant Point Cloud Registration
Quan Liu, Hongzi Zhu, Yunsong Zhou, Hongyang Li, Shan Chang, and Minyi Guo

IJCAI 2023
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APR: Online Distant Point Cloud Registration Through Aggregated Point Cloud Reconstruction
Quan Liu, Yunsong Zhou, Hongzi Zhu, Shan Chang, and Minyi Guo

CVPR 2023
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MonoATT: Online Monocular 3D Object Detection with Adaptive Token Transformer
Yunsong Zhou, Hongzi Zhu, Quan Liu, Shan Chang, and Minyi Guo

NeurIPS 2022
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MoGDE: Boosting Mobile Monocular 3D Object Detection with Ground Depth Estimation
Yunsong Zhou, Quan Liu, Hongzi Zhu, Yunzhe Li, Shan Chang, and Minyi Guo. Spotlight.

TPAMI 2021
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MonoEF: Extrinsic Parameter Free Monocular 3D Object Detection
Yunsong Zhou, Yuan He, Hongzi Zhu, Cheng Wang, Hongyang Li, and Qinhong Jiang

ICCV 2021
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TempNet: Online Semantic Segmentation on Large-Scale Point Cloud Series
Yunsong Zhou, Hongzi Zhu, Chunqin Li, Tiankai Cui, Shan Chang, and Minyi Guo

CVPR 2021
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Monocular 3D Object Detection: An Extrinsic Parameter Free Approach
Yunsong Zhou, Yuan He, Hongzi Zhu, Cheng Wang, Hongyang Li, and Qinhong Jiang

Projects

CVPR Challenge
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OpenScene: The large-scale dataset used for the End-to-End Driving and Predictive World Model tracks for the CVPR 2024 Autonomous Grand Challenge.

📖 Educations

  • 2020.09 - 2025.09, Ph.D., Computer Science, SEIEE, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
  • 2024.01 - 2024.07, Visiting Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles.
  • 2016.09 - 2020.06, Bachelor, Microelectronic Science and Technology, SEIEE, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

💻 Research

InternRobotics | Shanghai AI Laboratory

2025.09 - (present), Dexterous Manipulation for Embodied AI. Supervisor: Jiangmiao Pang.

MetaDriverse | University of California, LA

2024.01 - 2024.07, Video Diffusion Models and Driving Simulators. Supervisor: Bolei Zhou.

OpenDriveLab | Shanghai AI Lab

2022.12 - 2025.06, End-to-end Autonomous Driving and Driving with Language. Supervisor: Hongyang Li.

LION | Shanghai Jiao Tong University

2020.09 - 2025.06, Perception in Autonomous Driving. Supervisor: Hongzi Zhu and Minyi Guo.

💬 Invited Talks

  • 2024.07 Invited by SONY to give a talk on Generative Models in Autonomous Driving
  • 2023.08 Invited by Motional to give a talk on End-to-end Autonomous Driving

Updated on October 20, 2026