Yu Zheng 郑誉

Research

• Computer Vision
• Representation Learning
• Robotics
• Embodied AI
• World Models
• Multimodal Agents

Publications

arXiv 2026

Beyond Gene Reconstruction: Learning Cell Representations through Complementary Transcriptomic Views

J. Xiong^*, Y. Hu^*, Y. Zheng, Y. Shi, X. Guo, J. Qi^†

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ICML 2026 · Spotlight

Position: Assistive Agents Need Accessibility Alignment

J. Hu, C. Yan, Y. Zheng, Z. Wang, J. Zhang^†

Paper

arXiv 2026

DEAF: A Benchmark for Diagnostic Evaluation of Acoustic Faithfulness in Audio Language Models

J. Xiong^*, Y. Qi^*, Q. Cao^*, Y. Zheng, Y. Zhang, Z. Wang, R. Liao, W. Xu, S. Liu^†

Paper

arXiv 2025

OccSTeP: Benchmarking 4D Occupancy Spatio-Temporal Persistence

Y. Zheng, J. Hu, K. Yang, J. Zhang^†

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Education

1. 2025 - Now M.S. in Electronic Information, Hunan University

   Changsha, China.

2. 2021 - 2025 B.S. in Software Engineering, South China Normal University

   Guangzhou, China.

3. 2021 - 2025 B.S. in Computing Science, University of Aberdeen

   Aberdeen, United Kingdom.

Professional Activities

• Conference reviewer for IROS.
• Journal reviewer for RAL.
• Organizer of the UbiComp 2026 workshop Assistive Agents for All.

Internship

• Research Intern, Dept. PAIR, PolyU, Hong Kong, China.
• Interface Development Intern, Dept. TEG, Tencent, Shenzhen, China.
• Assistant Tutor, Dept. RoboMaster, DJI, Shenzhen, China.

Projects

• First author, China College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project on sport data evaluation based on human pose estimation.

Awards