Scholar
Mingjie Zhang
Google Scholar ID: lHo8EBsAAAAJ
MPhil Student, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Citations & Impact
Citations
45
H-index
3
i10-index
2
Publications
4
Co-authors
4
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publication: ApexNav: An Adaptive Exploration Strategy for Zero-Shot Object Navigation with Target-centric Semantic Fusion, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2025.
- - Publication: SOAR: Simultaneous Exploration and Photographing with Heterogeneous UAVs for Fast Autonomous Reconstruction, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024. (Oral)
- - Participation: FC-Planner: A Skeleton-guided Planning Framework for Fast Aerial Coverage of Complex 3D Scenes, Best Paper Award on UAV Finalists, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024.
- - Participation: Cooperative Aerial Robot Inspection Challenge: A Benchmark for Heterogeneous Multi-UAV Planning and Lessons Learned, IEEE Robotics Automation & Magazine (RAM), 2025.
- - Awards: IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award on UAV Finalists, 2024; National Scholarship, 2022 & 2023; Outstanding Graduate, 2024; Outstanding Student, 2021 & 2022 & 2023; 3rd Place in Cooperative Aerial Robots Inspection Challenge, 2023; 1st Prize in Yat-sen Challenge of Intelligent Cooperative Robots, 2023; First Prize in National Robot Championship Competition, 2021 & 2022; First Prize in International Underwater Robot Competition, 2021
Research Experience
- - STAR Robotics Lab, Southern University of Science and Technology, Research Assistant, 2023.08 - Present, collaborated with Prof. Boyu ZHOU on Vision-Language Navigation and Autonomous Aerial Exploration/Reconstruction
- - Football Robot Team, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Captain of the Humanoid Robot Team, 2022.07 - 2023.08, provided robot hardware/software technical support and achieved multiple national-level robotics awards
Education
- - MPhil, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2024 - 2026 (expected)
- - B.Eng, Northwestern Polytechnical University, School of Electronics and Information, 2020 - 2024
- - Supervisors: Prof. Boyu ZHOU, Prof. Jun MA
Background
- - Research Interests: Robotics, Embodied AI
- - Current Focus: Vision-Language Navigation, Autonomous Robot Exploration/Reconstruction
- - Other Interests: Mobile Manipulation, VLA, Humanoid
Miscellany
- - Hobbies: Badminton, Swimming
