Lingdong Kong
Scholar

Lingdong Kong

Google Scholar ID: -j1j7TkAAAAJ
National University of Singapore
Computer VisionDeep Learning
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Citations & Impact
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Citations
3,035
 
H-index
28
 
i10-index
50
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
22
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Contact
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Publications
49 items
AdaSFormer: Adaptive Serialized Transformers for Monocular Semantic Scene Completion from Indoor Environments
2026
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Language-Conditioned World Modeling for Visual Navigation
2026
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NavThinker: Action-Conditioned World Models for Coupled Prediction and Planning in Social Navigation
2026
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FLUX: Accelerating Cross-Embodiment Generative Navigation Policies via Rectified Flow and Static-to-Dynamic Learning
2026
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The RoboSense Challenge: Sense Anything, Navigate Anywhere, Adapt Across Platforms
2026
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Vision-Language-Action Models for Autonomous Driving: Past, Present, and Future
2025
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EditMGT: Unleashing Potentials of Masked Generative Transformers in Image Editing
2025
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WorldLens: Full-Spectrum Evaluations of Driving World Models in Real World
2025
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • National Scholarship (Ministry of Education, 2019)
  • Research Achievement Award (NUS Computing, 2023)
  • Dean's Graduate Research Excellence Award (NUS Computing, 2024)
  • DAAD AInet Fellowship (2025)
  • Apple Scholars in AI/ML Ph.D. Fellowship (2025)
  • Multiple papers spotlighted/oral at top conferences: NeurIPS (2023–2025), CVPR (2023–2025), ICLR (2025), WACV (2025), ICRA (2024), IROS (2025)
  • Outstanding Reviewer at CVPR 2025
  • Led or contributed to key projects including Talk2Event, DynamicCity, Calib3D, Place3D, OpenESS, Seal, LaserMix, LiDARCrafter, etc.
Research Experience
  • Apple AI/ML Ph.D. Scholar, mentored by Dr. Afshin Dehghan
  • DesCartes Ph.D. Scholar at CNRS@CREATE, mentored by Prof. Benoit R. Cottereau
  • Research Intern at NVIDIA Research, mentored by Dr. Boris Ivanovic
  • Research Intern at Shanghai AI Laboratory, mentored by Dr. Liang Pan and Prof. Yu Qiao
  • Research Scientist Intern at ByteDance AI Lab, mentored by Dr. Pengfei Wei
  • Research Intern at OpenMMLab, mentored by Dr. Wenwei Zhang and Dr. Kai Chen
  • Autonomous Vehicle Intern at Motional, mentored by Dr. Venice Erin Liong
Co-authors
22 total
Ziwei Liu
Ziwei Liu
Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University
Wenwei Zhang
Wenwei Zhang
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Jiawei Ren
Jiawei Ren
NVIDIA
Yuexin Ma
Yuexin Ma
Assistant Professor, School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University
Shaoyuan Xie
Shaoyuan Xie
University of California, Irvine
Yu Qiao
Yu Qiao
Professor of Shanghai AI Laboratory; Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS
Wei Tsang Ooi
Wei Tsang Ooi
National University of Singapore
Wenping Wang
Wenping Wang
Texas A&M University