Zihan Liu 刘子涵

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Dumbo Park, New York, 2026

I am a first-year MSR student at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Dr. Ji Zhang and Professor Katia Sycara. My current research interests lie in generalizability for robot manipulation and navigation, with a general interest in building embodied agents that can understand, predict, and interact with complex physical environments.

Previously, I was an undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics at New York University (NYU), advised by Professor Chen Feng. I served as the Co-Lead of NYU Self-Drive, a Vertically Integrated Project team focused on vision based navigation and held competitions.

Outside of research, I enjoy playing Rubik’s Cube (I can solve a 3*3 cube in 12 seconds) and listening to K-pop music. I am a big fan of BABYMONSTER 😈.

news

Sep 11, 2026 I started my MSR program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute!
Jun 15, 2026 Our paper SysNav: Multi-Level Systematic Cooperation Enables Real-World, Cross-Embodiment Object Navigation has been accepted by RA-L 2026!
Jun 02, 2026 I started my internship at Horizon Robotics. Yayy!

publications

  1. RA-L
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    SysNav: Multi-Level Systematic Cooperation Enables Real-World, Cross-Embodiment Object Navigation
    Haokun Zhu, Zongtai Li, Zihan Liu, and 8 more authors
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2026
  2. arXiv
    Scene Change Detection with Vision-Language Representation Learning
    Diwei Sheng, Vijayraj Gohil, Satyam Gaba, and 5 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.11402, 2026