Zhizhen Zhang The University of Queensland

Zhizhen Zhang

The University of Queensland.

Zhizhen Zhang is a second-year PhD student in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Queensland, supervised by Dr. Yadan Luo and Prof Helen Huang . He received his master's degree from Tsinghua University. His current research focuses on embodied AI, computer vision, and robotics.

News

2026
MergeVLA appears at CVPR 2026!

MergeVLA explores cross-skill model merging toward generalist vision-language-action model.

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2025
AcTOL appears at NeurIPS 2025!

AcTOL explores the ordering and continuity in vision-language pretraining with human action data for generalized embodied agents.

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Selected Publications

Highlighting publications in CORE-ranked A and A* venues, together with a high-impact journal article. View all publications or see Google Scholar.

  1. AnchorVLA: Anchored Diffusion for Efficient End-to-End Mobile Manipulation
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.01567, 2026 Under review

    AnchorVLA: Anchored Diffusion for Efficient End-to-End Mobile Manipulation

    J S Lim, Zhizhen Zhang, P Bohm, B Tidd, Z Huang, Y Luo

    2026 VLA model, Mobile Manipulation, Self-Correction New entry

  2. Teaser image for MergeVLA
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026 CORE A*

    MergeVLA: Cross-Skill Model Merging Toward a Generalist Vision-Language-Action Agent

    Y Fu, Zhizhen Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Wang, Z Huang, Y Luo

    Co-first author.

    2026 VLA model, Model Merging, Multi-task Learning 6 citations

  3. Teaser image for ACTOL
    Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025 CORE A*

    Provable Ordering and Continuity in Vision-Language Pretraining for Generalizable Embodied Agents

    Zhizhen Zhang, L Zhu, Z Fang, Z Huang, Y Luo

    2025 Vision-Language Pre-training for Robotics, Self-supervised Learning 2 citations

  4. Teaser image for View while Moving
    Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2023 CORE A*

    View while Moving: Efficient Video Recognition in Long-Untrimmed Videos

    Y Tian, M Yang, L Zhang, Zhizhen Zhang, Y Liu, X Xie, X Que, W Wang

    2023 Video Understanding 11 citations

  5. Teaser image for edge-assisted real-time video analytics
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal 10 (7), 6324-6335, 2022 JCR IF 8.9

    Edge-Assisted Real-Time Video Analytics with Spatial-Temporal Redundancy Suppression

    Z Wang, X He, Zhizhen Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Cao, W Cheng, W Wang, Y Cui

    2022 Systems 32 citations

Awards

2025
Distinguished Poster Award on UQ DS EOY.
2025
UQ Research Training Stipend Earmarked.

Academic Activities

2025
3MT presentation at Australasian Database Conference (ADC).
2025
Showcase at UQ EECS Illuminate.
2025
Co-supervisor for UQ Winter Research Program on the project "Deploying Learning-Based Locomotion on Unitree Go2 for Embodied AI."
2025
Presentation at UQ AI Conference Dry-run Seminar.

Professional Services

2025-
Reviewer for NeurIPS'25, CVPR'26.

Teaching Assistantship

Sem1, 2026
INFS4205/7205: Advanced Techniques for High Dimensional Data, EECS, University of Queensland.