Zhiyan Li

Hi 👋 I am Zhiyan Li, a senior undergraduate in ACM Honors Class of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, majoring in Computer Science. Currently, I'm a visiting student at Harvard University, supervised by Prof. Yilun Du and Dr. Mengyu Wang, and actively working with Weirui Ye and Kaichen Zhou at MIT. Previously, I worked at MVIG-RHOS lab in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, co-advised by Prof. Cewu Lu and Prof. Yonglu Li.

My research interests include multimodal perception in robot learning (especially tactile modality), lifelong learning for robotics and test-time adaptation using steering policies and agentic methods.

I am seeking a PhD position in Fall 2027.

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News

  • Sep. 2026: Became a junior organizer and reviewer for the 1st Workshop on Physical World AI (PhysWorldAI) at NeurIPS 2026.
  • June 2026: Joined the Embodied Minds Lab at Harvard, advised by Prof. Yilun Du, and the Harvard AI and Robotics Lab, advised by Dr. Mengyu Wang.
  • June–July 2025: Visiting student at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University.
  • June 2025: Joined the MVIG-RHOS Lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a research intern, co-advised by Prof. Cewu Lu and Prof. Yonglu Li.
  • June 2025: Teaching Assistant for Principles and Practice of Computer Algorithms at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
  • Feb. 2025: Teaching Assistant for Data Structures (Honors) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
  • Sep. 2023: Joined the ACM Honors Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Education

Harvard University logo Harvard University, Visiting Student, Present
Tsinghua University purple seal Tsinghua University, Visiting Student at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), June–July 2025
Shanghai Jiao Tong University logo Shanghai Jiao Tong University, B.S. in Computer Science, 2023-2027 (Expected)

Awards and Scholarships

  • Foresight-Sequoia Talent Development Fund (5 Outstanding Students in ACM Class per year), 2025
  • Zhiyuan Honors Scholarship (top 5% students in SJTU annually), 2023,2024,2025
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University Merit Scholarship, 2025
  • Provincial Second Prize , China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2024
  • Provincial Second Prize , The Chinese Mathematics Competition, 2024
  • Silver Medal, National Second Prize , 39th Chinese Physics Olympiad, 2022

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