Haochen Zhang
Hi! I’m Haochen and I’m a second year Master’s of Science in Robotics student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. I conduct research as part of the Field Robotics Center under the supervision of Dr. Ji Zhang and Dr. Wenshan Wang. My main research interests are in 3D semantic scene understanding, vision-language navigation, and interactive navigation agents.
Previously, I obtained my BASc in Engineering Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. I completed my undergrad thesis under Dr. Scott Sanner in natural language preference retrieval at the Data-Driven Decision Making (D3M) Lab. I also obtained a Minor in Artificial Intelligence and Certificate in Engineering Leadership.
news
| Jun 15, 2025 | Paper on object grounding for navigation accepted to IROS 2025! |
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| Jun 02, 2025 | Our 2025 CMU Vision-Language-Autonomy Challenge is now open for registration! Results will be presented at the 2nd AI Meets Autonomy workshop at IROS 2025. |
| Jan 27, 2025 | Benchmark paper on referential grounding accepted to ICRA 2025! |
| Oct 19, 2024 | I organized and hosted our workshop, AI Meets Autonomy: Vision, Language, and Autonomous Systems at the IROS 2024 conference in Abu Dhabi! Read my recap about the workshop here! |
| Oct 09, 2024 | Attended the 4th Space Imaging Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia where our extended abstract “Using Simulated Lunar Imagery to Train Real Networks” was presented. Read about it here.  |
teaching
| Spring 2025 | Graduate Teaching Assistant for 16-831 Introduction to Robot Learning |
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