ZhiYuan (Aaron) Feng is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, where he is advised by Professor Baining Guo. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Qian Xuesen Honors College, Xi’an Jiaotong University.
His research interests lie at the intersection of robotics and multimodal intelligence, with a focus on embodied AI, spatial reasoning, and vision-language models for robotic understanding.
Outside of research, he enjoys swimming, fitness, and tennis, and has a strong passion for photography. In the future, he hopes to learn skiing and travel to Japan and Hawaii.
Education Experience
2024 -
Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an
Bachelor of Computer Science
Qian Xuesen Honors College
Advisor: Bin Shi, Qinghua Zheng
Bachelor of Computer Science
Qian Xuesen Honors College
Advisor: Bin Shi, Qinghua Zheng
2020 - 2024Research Experience
- Microsoft Research Asia
(Jul 2024 - Present)- Role: Research Intern, working on Embodied AI.
- Advised by Yu Deng and Jiaolong Yang.
- Microsoft Research Asia
(Dec 2023 - Jun 2024)- Role: Research Intern, working on LLM for reasoning.
- Advised by Zheng Zhang.
- Xi’an Jiaotong University
(Jan 2022 - Jun 2023)- Role: Research student, working on GNNs and Privacy Protection.
- Advised by Shi Bin, Hua Wei, and Qinghua Zheng.
Honors & Services
- IEEE Student Member
- Reviewer, ICLR 2026 (International Conference on Learning Representations)
2026 - Reviewer, CVPR 2026 (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition)
2026 - Reviewer, ICRA 2026 (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation)
2026 - Microsoft “Stars of Tomorrow” Internship
2024 - China Mobile Outstanding Scholarship
2023 - National Scholarship
2021 - National Scholarship
2022 - The 12th Asia and Pacific Informatics Olympiad (Gold Medal)
2018 - National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces (First Prize)
2017, 2018