I am second-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (CSE, HKUST). I am fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Song Guo at PEILab. I received my Master’s degree in 2024 from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ), and my Bachelor’s degree in 2021 from Wuhan University.
My research interests focus on scaling up robot learning. Previously, I gained some experience in NLP. The long-term goal of my research is to develop a machine that can perceive, reason, and act in the real world like humans.
I am currently developing a generative world model for robot learning, which will enable automatic training and evaluation in a virtual environment.
🔥 News
- 2025.11: Our paper, WMPO, which explores VLA RL in world model, has been released! 🎉 Everything is open source!
- 2025.06: Our paper, IRASim is accepted by ICCV 2025!
- 2024.06: Our paper, IRASim, which explores generative robot world models, has been released! 🎉 Everything is open source!
- 2023.10: One paper is accepted by EMNLP 2023!🎉
- 2023.05: One paper is accepted by ACL Findings 2023! 🎉
- 2022.11: One paper is accepted by AAAI 2023! 🎉
📝 Preprints
WMPO: World Model-based Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models
Fangqi Zhu, Zhengyang Yan, Zicong Hong, Quanxin Shou, Xiao Ma, Song Guo
📝 Publications
IRASim: Learning Interactive Real-Robot Action Simulators
Fangqi Zhu, Hongtao Wu, Song Guo, Yuxiao Liu, Chilam Cheang, Tao Kong
ICCV 2025 | [Paper] [Code] [Project Website]
Learning to Describe for Predicting Zero-shot Drug-Drug Interactions
Fangqi Zhu, Yongqi Zhang, Lei Chen, Bing Qin, Ruifeng Xu
A Diffusion Model for Event Skeleton Generation
Fangqi Zhu, Lin Zhang, Jun Gao, Bing Qin, Ruifeng Xu, Haiqin Yang
A Generative Approach for Script Event Prediction via Contrastive Fine-Tuning
Fangqi Zhu, Jun Gao, Changlong Yu, Wei Wang, Chen Xu, Xin Mu, Min Yang, Ruifeng Xu
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2021.09 First-class Scholarship of Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
📖 Educations
- 2021.09 - 2024.01, Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITSZ)
- 2017.09 - 2021.06, Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Wuhan University (WHU)
💻 Internships
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2025.09 - present, Research Intern, ByteDance, Seed Multimodal, Shenzhen, China
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2024.03 - 2025.09, Research Intern, ByteDance, Seed Robotics, Beijing, China
Mentor: Dr. Tao Kong & Dr. Hongtao Wu & Dr. Hongtao Wu
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2023.04 - 2023.12, Research Intern, 4Paradigm, Shenzhen, China
Mentor: Dr. Yongqi Zhang
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2022.09 - 2023.03, Research Intern, International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA), DataStory AI lab, Shenzhen, China
Mentor: Dr. Haiqin Yang & Dr.Lin Zhang