Zihan Yang

Curious Mind | Gentle but Resolute

School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University

About Me

I am Zihan Yang, an undergraduate student in the Intelligent Science and Technology program (Zhi Class) at Peking University, expected to graduate in 2028. I currently serve as the Vice President of the Academic Committee of Intelligence Science and Technology (ZhiXueHui).

My research interests lie in Embodied AI, with a particular focus on Code as Policy and agentic approaches for robot manipulation. I am interested in building intelligent agents that can reason, plan, and translate high-level intentions into executable actions in the physical world. I have also worked on Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), Vision-Language-Action Models (VLA), and World Models, which have shaped my broader understanding of how perception, language, action, and environment dynamics can be integrated for embodied intelligence.

I enjoy playing the guitar, shuttlecock kicking, playing table tennis, and chatting with people.

Research Interests

• Agentic Robot Learning / Code as Policy
• Vision-Language Navigation
• VLA / World Model

Selected Publications

LaST_0.5: A Generalist World Action Model with Interaction-Centric Latent Reasoning

Xuheng Zhang†, Yiming Zhang†, Jialin Gao†, Hao Chen†, Jiaming Liu†, Ji Li, Runzhong Huang, Yinxi Wang, Chenyang Gu, Zihan Yang, Yaowei Liu, Zhonghao Yan, Ziyu Guo, Renrui Zhang, Peng Jia, Pheng-Ann Heng, Shanghang Zhang‡.

arXiv 2026

Playful Agentic Robot Learning

Junyi Zhang*,†, Jiaxin Ge*,†, Hanjun Yoo†, Letian Fu‡, Zihan Yang‡, Yaowei Liu‡, Raj Saravanan‡, Shaofeng Yin, Justin Yu, Dantong Niu, Zirui Wang, Roei Herzig, Ken Goldberg, Yutong Bai, David M. Chan, Ion Stoica, Angjoo Kanazawa, Jiahui Lei§, Haiwen Feng§, Trevor Darrell.

CoRL 2026 Paper

VTInstructor: Visual Trajectory Prompting for Navigation Instruction Generation in Continuous Environments

Haolin Yang†, Yuxing Long†, Zihan Yang†, Hao Dong‡.

ACM MM 2026 Paper

NavSpace: How Navigation Agents Follow Spatial Intelligence Instructions

Haolin Yang†, Yuxing Long†, Zhuoyuan Yu, Zihan Yang, Minghan Wang, Jiapeng Xu, Yihan Wang, Ziyan Yu, Wenzhe Cai, Lei Kang, Hao Dong‡.

ICRA 2026 Paper

CorrectNav: Self-Correction Flywheel Empowers Vision-Language-Action Navigation Model

Zhuoyuan Yu†, Yuxing Long†, Zihan Yang, Chengyan Zeng, Hongwei Fan, Jiyao Zhang, Hao Dong‡.

AAAI 2026 Paper

Selected Awards & Funding

Education

• 2024.9 - Present Peking University
• 2021.9 - 2024.9 ShenZhen Middle School
• 2018.9 - 2021.9 Shenzhen Middle School

Contact

• Email: yangzihan@stu.pku.edu.cn
• Institution: Peking University
• Location: Beijing, China