I am Yakun Zhu (朱亚琨), a master’s student in Computer Science at Tongji University (Shanghai, China).

My previous research has focused on Reinforcement Learning and Spatial Reasoning.

Looking ahead, I plan to explore Embodied Intelligence, particularly Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and World Action Models (WAMs), with the goal of developing agents that can understand, reason about, and interact with the physical world.

I am actively looking for Ph.D. / Research Intern positions. Please feel free to reach out to me via email.

🔥 News

2025.05: 🎉🎉 One paper accepted by ICML 2025.
2024.05: 🏆🏆 Won the Think Award and placed 4th in Skills at the VEX Robotics World Championship.
2024.01: 🏆🏆 Won the Tournament Champion at VEX Robotics Asian Open (International Signature).

📝 Publications

ICML 2025

CERTAIN: Context Uncertainty-aware One-Shot Adaptation for Context-based Offline Meta Reinforcement Learning

Hongtu Zhou, Ruiling Yang, Yakun Zhu, Haoqi Zhao, Hai Zhang, Di Zhang, Junqiao Zhao, Chen Ye, Changjun Jiang

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

Proposed a context uncertainty-aware framework for offline meta-RL.
Project Page Paper

GeoLatent: Geometry-Guided Latent Structuring with Routed Optimization for 3D Reasoning

Yakun Zhu, Yi Bin, Yujuan Ding, Zheng Wang, Pengpeng Zeng, Duo Peng, Jingkuan Song, Heng Tao Shen

Paper

BridgeAfford: Bridging Query-Target Gap for Generalizable 3D Affordance Grounding

Yijie Su, Yakun Zhu, Yi Bin, Pengpeng Zeng, Liang Chen, Guoqing Wang, Jingkuan Song, Heng Tao Shen

Paper

🎖 Honors and Awards

🎓 Scholarships & Academic Honors

2023-2025 National Endeavor Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China.
2023-2025 First-Class Scholarship of Tongji University
2023, 2024 Outstanding Student of Tongji University.

🤖 Competitions (Robotics & Algorithms)

2024.05 Division 3rd Place, World 4th Place (Skills), & Think Award (Programming), VEX Robotics World Championship.
2024 Bronze Medal, The 10th China Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC) Shanghai Site.
2024 Tournament Champion, Robot Skills Champion & Excellence Award, VEX Robotics Asian Open (International Signature).
2024 Skills Champion & Excellence Award, National VEX Robotics Elite Competition.
2024 Tournament Champion & Skills Champion, VEX Robotics Asian Open (West China).
2024 First Prize, “Qinghe” Sci-Tech Innovation Competition.

📖 Educations