Zhongyi Wang | ShanghaiTech University

About Me

Hello, I am Zhongyi Wang, a master student (2025-2028) in the Visual & Data Intelligence (VDI) Center, ViHumanLab at ShanghaiTech University (ShanghaiTech), advised by Prof. Jingya Wang, jointly with Prof. Ye Shi in Shanghai, China. Prior to this, I received my Bachelor degree from WHUT.

Research Interests

My main area of interests focuses on robot learning and robotic foundation models.

Robotic Foundation Model: post-training for Robotic Foundation Models
Real-World Robot Learning System: real-world learning based on Robotic Foundation Models

News

2026.05 Two papers accepted by ICML 2026.
2025.06 I graduate from WHUT as an outstanding graduate.

Publications

ICML 2026

Sample-Efficient Diffusion-based Reinforcement Learning with Critic Guidance

Shutong Ding*, Zejia Zhong*, Zhongyi Wang, Ke Hu, Bikang Pan, Jingya Wang, Ye Shi

The International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026

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ICML 2026

Sample from What You See: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Diffusion Bridge with Observation-Embedded Stochastic Differential Equation

Zhaoyang Liu, Mokai Pan, Zhongyi Wang, Kaizhen Zhu, Haotao Lu, Jingya Wang, Ye Shi

The International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026

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arXiv

FLEX: Personalized Federated Learning for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs via Expert Grafting

Fan Liu*, Bikang Pan*, Zhongyi Wang, Xi Yao, Xiaoying Tang, Jingya Wang, Ye Shi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.00965

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Honors and Awards

2025.06 Distinguished Undergraduate Thesis (Top 3%) / Outstanding Graduate, WHUT
2024.11 National Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education, China (Highest Government Honor for Undergraduates)
2023.09 National First Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics pdf

Education

ShanghaiTech University, China
- M.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering
- 2025.09 - Present
- Expected Graduation: 2028.06
Wuhan University of Technology, China
- B.Eng. in Software Engineering
- 2021.09 - 2025.06
- GPA: 4.18/5.0