Shunchi Zhang
Scholar

Shunchi Zhang

Google Scholar ID: O_ID14MAAAAJ
Johns Hopkins University
Theory of MindEmbodied AI
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
27
 
H-index
3
 
i10-index
1
 
Publications
6
 
Co-authors
4
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • AutoToM: Scaling Model-based Mental Inference via Automated Agent Modeling, NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper
  • World-in-World: World Models in a Closed-Loop World, arXiv 2025
  • The Essence of Contextual Understanding in Theory of Mind: A Study on Question Answering with Story Characters, ACL 2025
  • The Stochastic Parrot on LLM's Shoulder: A Summative Assessment of Physical Concept Understanding, NAACL 2025 Oral paper
  • Few-Shot Character Understanding in Movies as an Assessment to Meta-Learning of Theory-of-Mind, ICML 2024
  • Dynamic Relation Transformer for Contextual Text Block Detection, ICDAR 2024 Oral paper
Research Experience
  • Interned at AI (Jun 2023 — Aug 2024) and Research Asia (Sep 2022 — May 2023). Head Course Assistant for EN.601.664 Artificial Intelligence @ JHU (Fall 2025). Reviewer for LAW @ NeurIPS 2025.
Education
  • Master's student in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (Aug 2024 — Present), advised by Prof. Tianmin Shu.
Background
  • Research Interests: Developing planning algorithms with theory-of-mind reasoning and physical world understanding.