About
I am a PhD student at the School of Computer Science, Rutgers University, advised by Prof. jingjin Yu.
Prior to this, I obtained a BSc degree with Honor Degree (top 5%) in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
My research focuses on developing more capable and reliable robot brains that allow robots to work efficiently and safely in household environments.
The kitchen, as a compact yet highly representative domestic space, serves as an ideal starting point for this mission.
I categorize kitchen-related tasks into three major groups:
- Ingredient Preparation: Converting raw materials into ready-to-cook components.
- Food Production: Assisting in or autonomously performing cooking tasks.
- Post-Meal Tidying: Cleaning, dishwashing, and waste handling to maintain kitchen usability and hygiene.
Currently, I am focusing on solving post-meal tidying tasks.
Selected Publications
View All →VLA-OS: Structuring and Dissecting Planning Representations and Paradigms in Vision-Language-Action Models
Chongkai Gao, Zixuan Liu, Zhenghao Chi, Junshan Huang, Xin Fei, Yiwen Hou, Yuxuan Zhang, Yudi Lin, Zhirui Fang, Lin Shao
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
Unified benchmarking reveals visually grounded hierarchical planning excels in VLAs.
Unifarn: Unified transformer for facial reaction generation
Cong Liang, Jiahe Wang, Haofan Zhang, Bing Tang, Junshan Huang, Shangfei Wang, Xiaoping Chen
Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)
Unified transformer predicts expressive facial reactions from multimodal conversational input.
News
🎉 Our paper VLS-OS accepted by NeurIPS 2025!
Starting my PhD at the Rutgers University~
🎓 Graduated from USTC with a honor degree! (Top 5%)
Awarded the AI Talent Program Scholarship from USTC.
Awarded the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Scholarship.
We win the 1st place in the ACM REACT 2023 Multimodal Challenge!