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About Me

Hi👋! I'm Yanping Zhao (赵彦平), a first-year master’s student at Tongji University supervised by Prof.Junqiao Zhao.
My research interests include Embodied AI, World Model, and Reinforcement Learning. My methodological preference is for approaches that are simple, clear, and extensible. I want to build robots with Generalizability, and Robustness. I am currently passionate about Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs). Feel free to reach out if you are interested in collaboration or potential opportunities.

Experience

- 2025.9-Now: Master of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University
- 2021.9-2025.7: Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University
Tongji University

Publications

Embodied AI

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GWM-VLA: Geometry-Aware Latent World Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Learning

Yanping Zhao, Hang Yu, Yiwei Wang, Chen Ye, Siyu Tian, Di Zhang, Qingjun Wang, Qian Chen, Junqiao Zhao, Chen Ye, Guang Chen

  • under review

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ACSAC: Adaptive Chunk Size Actor-Critic with Causal Transformer Q-Network

Qian Chen, Junqiao Zhao, Hongtu Zhou, Hang Yu, Yanping Zhao, Chen Ye, Guang Chen

  • under review
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Beyond Penalization: Diffusion-based Out-of-Distribution Detection and Selective Regularization in Offline Reinforcement Learning

Qingjun Wang, Hongtu Zhou, Hang Yu, Junqiao Zhao, Yanping Zhao, Chen Ye, Ziqiao Wang, Guang Chen

  • ICLR 2026 Poster
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ASTRO: Adaptive Stitching via Dynamics-Guided Trajectory Rollouts

Hang Yu, Di Zhang, Qiwei Du, Yanping Zhao, Hai Zhang, Guang Chen, Eduardo E. Veas, Junqiao Zhao

  • RSS 2026 RoboData Workshop

Honors and Awards

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The 22nd HUAWEI CUP China Postgraduate Mathematical Modeling Competition

Team: Yanping Zhao, Xiying Chen, Jia Ma

  • National Second Prize - 2025.11
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2024 HUAWEI CUP National Undergraduate IOT Design Contest

Team: Tiantian Lin, Yirun He, Yanping Zhao, Shuyang Fu, Lei Jiang†, Jie Lu†

  • First Prize in Final Contest - 2024.08