Junyu Zhang

I am a Master's student in Computer Science (MSCS) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Huan Zhang. Previously, I received my bachelor's degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. I am fortunate to work under the supervision of Prof. Chongjie Zhang in the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University and Prof. Chuang Gan in the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.

My research interests lies at Reinforcement Learning, Embodied AI and Trustworthy Machine Learning, with particular interests in building autonomous agents with generalizable ability to perceive, reason and interact with the real-world environment.

If you would like to discuss my research or potential collaborations further, feel free to contact me. I'm open to connect and collaborate with each other.

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News

2024/01 - Our work about multi-cellular soft robot design got accepted to ICLR 2024.
2023/04 - Work as a research intern under the supervision of Prof. Chuang Gan in the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.
2023/04 - Our work about symmetry-aware robot design got accepted to ICML 2023.
2023/04 - Our work about offline meta RL got accepted to ICML 2023.
2023/02 - Selected as the Outstanding undergraduates in Term of Academic Performance in 2022 (top 1%)!
2022/07 - Join the Machine Intelligence Group at Tsinghua University, supervised by Prof. Chongjie Zhang.

Publications

	DynaMath: A Dynamic Visual Benchmark for Evaluating Mathematical Reasoning Robustness of Vision Language Models Chengke Zou, Xingang Guo, Rui Yang, Junyu Zhang, Bin Hu, Huan Zhang Preprint, under review* [paper] [website] [Dataset]
	Leveraging Hyperbolic Embeddings for Coarse-to-Fine Robot Design Heng Dong, Junyu Zhang, Chongjie Zhang The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024 [paper] [website]
	Symmetry-Aware Robot Design with Structured Subgroups Heng Dong, Junyu Zhang, Tonghan Wang, Chongjie Zhang The Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023 [paper] [website]
	Offline Meta Reinforcement Learning with In-Distribution Online Adaptation Jianhao Wang, Jin Zhang, Haozhe Jiang, Junyu Zhang, Liwei Wang, Chongjie Zhang The Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023 [paper]

Honors and Awards

2024 - Outstanding Graduate Honor.
2022 - Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award (top 1%).
2022 - Science and Technology Innovation Scholarship.
2022 - Honorable Mention in Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
2022 - The Second Prize in the Badminton event at the Fourth Sports Teaching Class Student Sports Skills Competition.
2021 - The Second Prize of the World Robot Contest-BCI Brain Control Robot Contest.
2021 - Excellent Academic Scholarship.
2021 - Freshman Self-improvement Scholarship.