YC Yang Chen

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University (Suzhou Campus) and a member of the LAMDA Group led by Zhi-Hua Zhou. My research focuses on Embodied Agent under real physical constraints.

Education

2025.09 - Present
Ph.D., Computer Science and Technology
Nanjing University
2022.09 - 2025.04
M.S., Control Theory and Control Engineering
Nanjing University of Science and Technology
2018.09 - 2022.06
B.S., Automation
Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Research Map

An interactive view of my current research topics. Select a node for details.

Interactive research map A clickable and zoomable map where embodied agent research branches into sub-directions above a timeline of internships. Research Directions Internship Timeline Embodied Agent real physical constraints Vision-Language Navigation Move2Anything · primitives Task & Motion Planning Re² · test-time refine Robotics System perception · planning · control rule induction physical constraints composable primitives 2025.06 2025.12 2026.06 Now Microsoft Research 2025.06 - 2025.12 · VLN AgiBot 2026.06 - Now · Robotics System
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Embodied Agent

My current research studies embodied agents that can plan, act, and refine decisions under real physical constraints.

Publications

Overview figure for Re2: Reflective Rule Induction and Rule-Guided Refinement for Embodied Planning Under Review
Under review Most Innovation Award FMEA Workshop @ CVPR 2026 Poster

Re²: Reflective Rule Induction and Rule-Guided Refinement for Embodied Planning

Yang Chen, Hong-Jie You, Jie-Jing Shao, Xiao-Wen Yang, Ming Yang, Yu-Feng Li, Lan-Zhe Guo

Under review.

A closed-loop embodied planning framework with trajectory reflection, rule induction, rule retrieval, and test-time correction.

Awards

  • CVPR 2026 EmbodiedBench Challenge, 1st place
  • NeurIPS 2025 EAI Competition Most Innovation Award
  • Microsoft Global Hackathon 2025 Embodied AI for Everyday Impact
  • Graduate National Scholarship, ranked 5 / 385
  • First-class Graduate Academic Scholarship and Outstanding Graduate honors
  • 2023 Zhaoying Cup Intelligent Unmanned Systems Application Challenge, national second prize

Academic Service

Reviewer NeurIPS 2026, ICML 2026, IJCAI 2025/2026, IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
Teaching Assistant Introduction to Artificial Intelligence @ Nanjing University Spring 2026.
Research areas MLLM agents, vision-language navigation, robotic task and motion planning.