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Zi Wang
Research Engineer, NVIDIA
wang.zi2865@gmail.com

Hi! I'm Zi Wang, a Research Engineer at NVIDIA working on Vision-Language-Action models. I completed my Master's in Computer Vision at Carnegie Mellon University under Prof. Srinivasa Narasimhan, and my Bachelor's in Artificial Intelligence at Shanghai Jiao Tong University under Prof. Siheng Chen. My research spans autonomous driving, embodied AI, and humanoid loco-manipulation. If you're interested in discussing my work, feel free to reach me at wang.zi2865@gmail.com.

Interests

  • Embodied AI
  • Humanoid Robotics
  • Autonomous Driving
  • Computer Vision

Academia

Carnegie Mellon University
2023 - 2024
M.S. Computer Vision
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2019 - 2023
B.Eng. Artificial Intelligence

News

  • Won 1st Place in CVPR End-to-End Autonomous Driving Challenge, featured in NVIDIA GTC Paris Keynote 2025 , June 2025.
  • Started as Full Time Research Engineer at NVIDIA , February 2025.

Recent Publications

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VIRAL: Visual Sim-to-Real at Scale for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation, 2025, In Submission
Tairan He* , Zi Wang* , Haoru Xue* , Qingwei Ben* , Zhengyi Luo , Wenli Xiao , Ye Yuan , Xingye Da , Fernando Castañeda , Shankar Sastry , Changliu Liu , Guanya Shi , Linxi Fan , Yuke Zhu
[paper]
Opening the Sim-to-Real Door for Humanoid Pixel-to-Action Policy Transfer, 2025, In Submission
Haoru Xue* , Tairan He* , Zi Wang* , Qingwei Ben , Wenli Xiao , Zhengyi Luo , Xingye Da , Fernando Castañeda , Guanya Shi , Shankar Sastry , Linxi Fan , Yuke Zhu
Enhancing Autonomous Driving Safety with Collision Scenario Integration, 2025, IROS 2025 (Oral)
Zi Wang , Shiyi Lan , Xinglong Sun , Nadine Chang , Zhenxin Li , Zhiding Yu , Jose M. Alvarez
[paper]
Editable Scene Simulation for Autonomous Driving via Collaborative LLM-Agents, 2024, CVPR 2024 (Highlight)
Yuxi Wei* , Zi Wang* , Yifan Lu* , Chenxin Xu* , Changxing Liu , Siheng Chen
[paper]
TBP-Former: Learning Temporal Bird's-Eye-View Pyramid for Joint Perception and Prediction in Vision-Centric Autonomous Driving, 2023, CVPR 2023
Shaoheng Fang* , Zi Wang* , Yiqi Zhong , Junhao Ge , Siheng Chen
[paper]
SONIC: Supersizing Motion Tracking for Natural Humanoid Whole-Body Control, 2025, In Submission
Zhengyi Luo , Ye Yuan , Tingwu Wang , Chenran Li , Sirui Chen , Fernando Castañeda , Zi-Ang Cao , Jiefeng Li , David Minor , Qingwei Ben , Xingye Da , Runyu Ding , Cyrus Hogg , Lina Song , Edy Lim , Eugene Jeong , Tairan He , Haoru Xue , Wenli Xiao , Zi Wang , Simon Yuen , Jan Kautz , Yan Chang , Umar Iqbal , Linxi "Jim" Fan , Yuke Zhu
[paper]
ASAP: Aligning Simulation and Real-World Physics for Learning Agile Humanoid Whole-Body Skills, 2025, RSS 2025
Tairan He* , Jiawei Gao* , Wenli Xiao* , Yuanhang Zhang* , Zi Wang , Jiashun Wang , Zhengyi Luo , Guanqi He , Nikhil Sobanbab , Chaoyi Pan , Zeji Yi , Guannan Qu , Kris Kitani , Jessica Hodgins , Linxi Fan , Yuke Zhu , Changliu Liu , Guanya Shi
[paper]
DriveSuprim: Towards Precise Trajectory Selection for End-to-End Planning, 2025, AAAI 2026
Wenhao Yao , Zhenxin Li , Shiyi Lan , Zi Wang , Xinglong Sun , Jose M. Alvarez , Zuxuan Wu
[paper]
Generalized Trajectory Scoring for End-to-end Multimodal Planning, 2025, Technical Report
Zhenxin Li , Wenhao Yao , Zi Wang , Xinglong Sun , Joshua Chen , Nadine Chang , Maying Shen , Zuxuan Wu , Shiyi Lan , Jose M. Alvarez
[paper]
ZTRS: Zero-Imitation End-to-end Autonomous Driving with Trajectory Scoring, 2025, In Submission
Zhenxin Li , Wenhao Yao , Zi Wang , Xinglong Sun , Jingde Chen , Nadine Chang , Maying Shen , Jingyu Song , Zuxuan Wu , Shiyi Lan , Jose M. Alvarez
[paper]
DialogueNeRF: Towards Realistic Avatar Face-to-Face Conversation Video Generation, 2024, Visual Intelligence
Yichao Yan* , Zanwei Zhou* , Zi Wang , Jingnan Gao , Xiaokang Yang
[paper]
Interruption-Aware Cooperative Perception for V2X Communication-Aided Autonomous Driving, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
Shunli Ren , Zixing Lei , Zi Wang , Mehrdad Dianati , Yafei Wang , Siheng Chen , Wenjun Zhang
[paper]