I am currently a Zstar Researcher at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI). I received the Ph.D. degree from the National Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), in December 2025, 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 embodied AI and world models. I have published several papers in T-PAMI, CVPR, RA-L, ICRA, IROS, and so on. I am lucky to have had opportunities to work with Assoc. Prof. Sanping Zhou and Assist. Prof. Shitao Chen.

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

  • 2026.08 Our team released PRM-as-a-Judge 1.5, a toolkit for dense robot trajectory evaluation.
  • 2026.07 Our team released Orca, a world model for next-state prediction.
  • 2026.03 I joined the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) as a Zstar Researcher.
  • 2025.12 I received the Ph.D. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University.
  • 2025.03 One first-author paper is accepted by T-PAMI 2025.
  • 2025.02 One first-author paper is accepted by CVPR 2025 (highlight🌟, ~top 10%).
  • 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.

💼 Experiences

  • Zstar Researcher (智星研究员), Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), 2026.03-present

📖 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

arXiv 2026
PRM-as-a-Judge 1.5

PRM-as-a-Judge 1.5: A Toolkit for Robot Process Assessment

Yuyang Liu*, Yanqing Shen*, Ruike Chen, Jifan Zhao, et al.

arXiv 2026
Orca

Orca: The World is in Your Mind

Yihao Wang, Yuheng Ji, Mingyu Cao, Yanqing Shen, et al.

T-PAMI 2025
StructVPR++

StructVPR++: Distill Structural and Semantic Knowledge with Weighting Samples for Visual Place Recognition

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

CVPR 2025 highlight
ForestLPR

ForestLPR: LiDAR Place Recognition in Forests Attentioning Multiple BEV Density Images

Yanqing Shen, Turcan Tuna, Cesar Cadena, Marco Hutter, Nanning Zheng*

CVPR 2023
StructVPR

StructVPR: Distill Structural Knowledge with Weighting Samples for Visual Place Recognition

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

CVPR 2022
TransVPR

TransVPR: Transformer-based Place Recognition with Multi-level Attention Aggregation

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