I am a Ph.D. student at the National Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), under the supervision of Prof. Nanning Zheng. I received the B.E. degree in electronic and information engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University. My research interests mainly include place recognition, SLAM, representation learning and autonomous vehicle. Now I am learning embodied AI. I have published several papers in T-PAMI, CVPR, RA-L, ICRA, IROS, and so on. I am lucky to have opportunities to work with Assoc. Prof. Sanping Zhou and Assist. Prof ShitaoChen.
I am lucky to have opportunities to work at Robotic Systems Lab (RSL) as a visiting Ph.D. student, supervised by Assoc. Prof. Marco Hutter, Dr. Cesar Cadena, and Dr. Olga Vysotska. RSL family members are sooooo nice. That’s what I’d like to call destiny.
🔥 News
- 2025.03 : One first-author paper is accepted by T-PAMI 2025.
- 2025.02 : One first-author paper is accepted by CVPR 2025.
- 2024.11 : I was awarded the CMCC scholarship (Top 1%).
- 2024.01 : One paper is accepted by ICRA 2024.
- 2023.02 : One first-author paper is accepted by CVPR 2023.
📖 Educations
- Ph.D, Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2019.09-2025.12
- Visiting Ph.D, Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, 2023.12-2024.12
- B.S., Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2015.09-2019.06
📝 Selected Publications

Yanqing Shen , Sanping Zhou, Jingwen Fu, Ruotong Wang, Shitao Chen, Nanning Zheng*

Yanqing Shen , Turcan Tuna, Cesar Cadena, Marco Hutter, Nanning Zheng*
In this work, we propose a robust LiDAR-based place recognition method for natural forests, ForestLPR. The cross-sectional images are represented by BEV density images of horizontal slices of the point cloud at different heights. Our approach utilizes a visual transformer as the shared backbone to produce sets of local descriptors and introduces a multi-BEV interaction module to attend to information at different heights adaptively.

Ruotong Wang1 , Yanqing Shen1 , Weiliang Zuo, Sanping Zhou, Nanning Zheng*
🏅 Selected Honors and awards
National Scholarship, Xi’an Jiaotong University, (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023)
top1%, Issued by Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China
- CMCC Scholarship, top 1%, 2024
- Acedamic star of the AIAR, 2020
- Freshman Scholarship, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2019
- Academic Scholarship, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2019
- Outstanding Undergraduate Graduates in Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2019
- Outstanding Student, Xi’an Jiaotong University, (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020)
Hobbies
🏀Basketball (I am a big fan of Stephen Curry since 2015)