Lingyu Zhang

I am a PhD student at the General Robotics Lab at Duke University, advised by Prof. Boyuan Chen. My research focuses on Embodied AI, especially how foundation models and human guidance can provide supervision for efficient policy learning and adaptation.

I received my MS degree from Columbia, where I worked on robust computer vision models and multimodal learning, working with Professor Junfeng Yang, Carl Vondrick, and Shih-Fu Chang and collaborated closely with Chengzhi Mao and Mingyang Zhou.

I completed my Bachelor's degree at Nanjing University , where I did my undergraduate thesis on learned image compression with Prof. Qiu Shen.

If you're a Duke student interested in agentic robotics, learning from VLM/human feedback, or LLM for scientific ideation, please reach out.