Curriculum Vitae

Yu Zheng

Master's student in Electronic Information at Hunan University, working on computer vision, robotics, embodied AI, and world models.

Education

  • 2025 - Now · M.S. in Electronic Information, Hunan University, China
  • 2021 - 2025 · B.S. in Software Engineering, South China Normal University, China
  • 2021 - 2025 · B.S. in Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Publications

  • ICML 2026 Spotlight · Position: Assistive Agents Need Accessibility Alignment. [paper]
  • arXiv · DEAF: A Benchmark for Diagnostic Evaluation of Acoustic Faithfulness in Audio Language Models. [paper]
  • arXiv · OccSTeP: Benchmarking 4D Occupancy Spatio-Temporal Persistence. [paper] [website] [code]

Professional Activities

  • Conference reviewer for IROS.
  • Journal reviewer for RAL.
  • Workshop organizer, Assistive Agents for All, UbiComp 2026. [website]

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 and Patents

  • Sport Data Evaluation Technology Based on Human Pose Estimation and its Application · China College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project, provincial completed project, first author.
  • A Study on Study-Abroad Application Recommendation Method and System Based on Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks · First author, CN117474726A, entered substantive examination.

Competitions

  • 2024 RoboMaster University League Mech Master Competition Infantry Robot Award, National First Prize
  • 2023 RoboMaster University League Mech Master Competition Infantry Combat Award, National Second Prize
  • 2024 RoboMaster Super League Competition Infantry Robot Award, National Second Prize
  • 2024 RoboMaster Super League Competition Overall Competition, National Third Prize
  • 2023 MCM, Honorable Mention
  • 2023 APMCM, Third Prize
  • 2023 National Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling, Guangdong Provincial Second Prize