Puyuan Zhang
M.S. Student, School of Mechanical Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
pyzhang1@sjtu.edu.cn
About
I am an M.S. student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), School of Mechanical Engineering. My research interests lie at the intersection of robot perception, predictive world models, active perception, and autonomous navigation. I am particularly interested in building efficient 3D scene representations that enable robots to understand and interact with dynamic environments.
My current focus is on developing perception systems that can reason about future scene states, allowing robots to make informed decisions under uncertainty. I aim to bridge the gap between geometric reconstruction and semantic understanding for real-world robotic applications.
Research Interests
- Robot perception and autonomous navigation — enabling robots to perceive, localize, and navigate in unstructured environments
- Predictive world models and active perception — learning to anticipate future states and actively gather informative observations
- Dynamic-scene understanding — modeling moving objects and temporal changes in 3D scenes
- Efficient 3D scene representations — building compact, scalable representations for real-time robotic perception
Education
-
M.S. Student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
School of Mechanical Engineering · 2026–present -
B.Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Mechanical Engineering · 2022–2026
Publications
Recent Writing
Contact
- Email: pyzhang1 (at) sjtu.edu.cn · mailto
- GitHub: patrick1159
- Affiliation: Shanghai Jiao Tong University