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BangjunWang

CS PhD student at The University of Hong Kong working on embodied AI, robotic manipulation, and foundation models.

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Bangjun Wang

01About

About

Hi, I am a first-year Ph.D. student at HKU MMLab, co-advised by Prof. Hongyang Li and Prof. Yi Ma. I received my Bachelor's degree from AI (Guozhi) Class (held by Prof. Xiaoou Tang and Prof. Cewu Lu), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Previously, I was a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California (USC), advised by Prof. Yue Wang, and the National University of Singapore (NUS), advised by Prof. Lin Shao. I also worked with Prof. Hao Dong and Prof. Junchi Yan before during my undergraduate years. My research focuses on Embodied AI, Robotic Manipulation, and Foundation Models. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in my research or would like to collaborate on any related topics!

02Latest

Latest

2026.06

Attended ICRA 2026 on-site.

2025.10

Starting my PhD at HKU MMLab, co-advised by Prof. Hongyang Li and Prof. Yi Ma.

2025.04

RoboVerse was accepted by RSS 2025, and the code has been released.

2024.12

Actively applying for a 2025/2026 PhD position.

2024.08

Serving as a reviewer for CVPR 2025 and ICML 2025.

2024.08

Visiting student at USC, supervised by Prof. Yue Wang.

03Focus

Research with an eye on physical generalization.

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Embodied AI

Learning systems that connect perception, action, and world understanding for physical agents.

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Robotic manipulation

Generalizable manipulation policies, benchmarks, and datasets for scalable robot learning.

03

Foundation models

Vision-language-action and generative world action models for zero-shot physical reasoning.

04Publications

Selected work

06 entries, in chronological order

Goal-VLA: Image-Generative VLMs as Object-Centric World Models Enable Zero-Shot Robot Manipulation

RoboVerse: Towards a Unified Platform, Dataset and Benchmark for Scalable and Generalizable Robot Learning

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RoboVerse: Towards a Unified Platform, Dataset and Benchmark for Scalable and Generalizable Robot Learning

Haoran Geng*, Feishi Wang*, Songlin Wei*, Yuyang Li*, Bangjun Wang*, Boshi An*, Charlie Tianyue Cheng*, Haozhe Lou, Peihao Li, Yen-Jen Wang, Yutong Liang, Dylan Goetting, Chaoyi Xu, Haozhe Chen, Yuxi Qian, Yiran Geng, Jiageng Mao, Weikang Wan, Mingtong Zhang, Jiangran Lyu, Siheng Zhao, Jiazhao Zhang, Jialiang Zhang, Chengyang Zhao, Haoran Lu, Yufei Ding, Ran Gong, Yuran Wang, Yuxuan Kuang, Ruihai Wu, Baoxiong Jia, Carlo Sferrazza, Hao Dong, Siyuan Huang, Koushil Sreenath, Yue Wang†, Jitendra Malik†, Pieter Abbeel† (Co-first author among 38 authors)

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025

Oral PresentationEditor's Pick

PaperCodePageTwitter

Learning Manipulation by Predicting Interaction

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Learning Manipulation by Predicting Interaction

Jia Zeng*, Qingwen Bu*, Bangjun Wang*, Wenke Xia*, Li Chen, Hao Dong, Haoming Song, Dong Wang, Di Hu, Ping Luo, Heming Cui, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li, Yu Qiao, Hongyang Li

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2024

Oral PresentationEditor's Pick

PaperCodePageTwitter

LaneSegNet: Map Learning with Lane Segment Perception for Autonomous Driving

OpenLane-V2: A Topology Reasoning Benchmark for Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving

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OpenLane-V2: A Topology Reasoning Benchmark for Scene Understanding in Autonomous Driving

Huijie Wang, Tianyu Li, Yang Li, Li Chen, Chonghao Sima, Zhenbo Liu, Bangjun Wang, Peijin Jia, Yuting Wang, Shengyin Jiang, Feng Wen, Hang Xu, Ping Luo, Junchi Yan, Wei Zhang, Hongyang Li

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2023

PaperCodePageCompetition

World4Omni: A Zero-Shot Framework from Image Generation World Model to Robotic Manipulation

05Timeline

Visiting experience

2025.04 - 2025.09

National University of Singapore (NUS)

Visiting Scholar; Advisor/Supervisor: Prof. Lin Shao

National University of Singapore (NUS) logo

2024.08 - 2025.07

University of Southern California (USC)

Visiting Scholar; Advisor/Supervisor: Prof. Yue Wang

University of Southern California (USC) logo

2024.03 - 2024.08

PKU-AGIBOT Lab, Peking University (PKU) & AGIBOT

Research Intern; Advisor/Supervisor: Prof. Hao Dong and Dr. Maoqing Yao

PKU-AGIBOT Lab, Peking University (PKU) & AGIBOT logo

2023.03 - 2024.06

OpenDriveLab, Shanghai AI Lab & The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Research Intern; Advisor/Supervisor: Prof. Hongyang Li

OpenDriveLab, Shanghai AI Lab & The University of Hong Kong (HKU) logo

2022.09 - 2023.03

ReThinkLab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU)

Research Undergraduate; Advisor/Supervisor: Prof. Junchi Yan

ReThinkLab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) logo

06Education

Education

2025 - Present

Ph.D. in Computer Science

The University of Hong Kong

Advisor: Prof. Hongyang Li and Prof. Yi Ma

2021 - 2025

B.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Summa Cum Laude, Guozhi Class. Advisor: Prof. Cewu Lu and Prof. Xiaoou Tang

2024 - 2025

Visiting Scholar

University of Southern California (USC)

Research Advisor: Prof. Yue Wang

07Service

Academic service

Reviewer

Workshop Co-organizer

School Roles

08Misc

Outside the lab

Music

Classical, jazz, blues, and R&B; especially Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Wagner, and the late Romantic repertoire.

Sports

Tennis and Golf. I enjoy the blend of physicality, strategy, and mental focus in these sports.

Art and design

Learning graphic design and digital art systematically alongside research work.