Yu Zhang

Preferred name: Franklin Zhang
Email: franklin.yuzhang AT gmail.com
Google Scholar & GitHub & Twitter
I am a senior student at ShanghaiTech University, currently applying to PhD programs with a research focus on the intersection of robotics and computer vision. My primary interest lies in developing algorithms for generalizable robotic manipulation by leveraging robotics foundation models and task-oriented perception.
In my junior year, I spent an exchange year at UC Berkeley, where I had the privilege of joining BAIR and collaborating with Toru Lin under Jitendra Malik. Additionally, I completed a summer research internship at UT Austin advised by Prof. Yuke Zhu.

Publications (*indicates equal technical contribution)

ReasonGen-R1
ReasonGen-R1: CoT for Autoregressive Image generation models through SFT and RL
Yu Zhang*, Yunqi Li*, Yifan Yang, Rui Wang, Yuqing Yang, Qi Dai, Jianmin Bao, Dongdong Chen, Chong Luo, Lili Qiu
Arxiv Preprint
[Paper] [Website]
SCIZOR: A Self-Supervised Approach to Data Curation for Large-Scale Imitation Learning
Yu Zhang*, Yuqi Xie*, Huihan Liu†, Rutav Shah†, Michael Wan, Linxi “Jim” Fan, Yuke Zhu
Arxiv Preprint
[Paper] [Website]
Multi-Task Interactive Robot Fleet Learning with Visual World Models
Huihan Liu, Yu Zhang, Vaarij Betala, Evan Zhang, James Liu, Crystal Ding , Yuke Zhu
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024
[Paper] [Website]
Learning Visuotactile Skills with Two Multifingered Hands
Toru Lin, Yu Zhang*, Qiyang Li*, Haozhi Qi*, Brent Yi, Sergey Levine , Jitendra Malik
International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA) 2025
[Paper] [Website] [Twitter]