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Lingjun Zhao

PhD Student
Robotics,
Georgia Institute of Technology
lzhao360@gatech.edu


About Me

Hi! I’m Lingjun Zhao, a third-year PhD student in Robotics at Georgia Institute of Technology, where I’m co-advised by Prof. Lu Gan and Prof. James Hays. I’m also affiliated with Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering. My current research lies at the intersection of Robotics and Computer Vision, with a primary focus on Robot Perception and Robot Learning.

I obtained my master degree at University of Michigan’s Robotics Institute, supervised by Prof.Katie Skinner. I worked as a research assistant in UM Ford Center for Autnonomous Vehicles (FCAV), researching on robot perception for self-driving cars. Prior to joining the Master program, I completed my bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at Tianjin University, where I was advised by Prof. Fujun Wang and Prof. Le Song. During my undergraduate period, I worked on Soft Robots, Surgical Robots and Vision-based Tactile Sensors. I was also a Research intern at Toyota Research Institute in Summer 2026, working with Human Interactive Driving Team.

Research Interests

Research

  1. Under Review
    NeuSP: Neural Point-based Semantic-Physical Continual Terrain Understanding for Off-Road Autonomous Driving
    Lingjun Zhao, Marcus Greiff, Michael Thompson, Takeru Shirasawa, Lu Gan, John Subosits, Ray Zhang.
    Toyota Research Institute.
  2. IROS 2026 SeMaNa Workshop
    CoGaussian: Open-Vocabulary Gaussian-based Collaborative 3D Scene Understanding
    Om Shivam Verma*, Shaya Farahmand*, Lingjun Zhao, Lu Gan.
    Georgia Institute of Technology.
    Paper
  3. CVPR 2026 Findings
    ShelfGaussian: Shelf-Supervised Open-Vocabulary Gaussian-based 3D Scene Understanding
    Lingjun Zhao*, Yandong Luo*, James Hays, Lu Gan.
    Georgia Institute of Technology.
    Website
  4. ICRA 2026
    GaussianFormer3D: Multi-Modal Gaussian-based Semantic Occupancy Prediction with 3D Deformable Attention
    Lingjun Zhao, Sizhe Wei, James Hays, Lu Gan.
    Georgia Institute of Technology.
    Website
  5. 3DV 2026
    Diffusion-Denoised Hyperspectral Gaussian Splatting
    Sunil Kumar Narayanan, Lingjun Zhao, Lu Gan, Yongsheng Chen.
    Georgia Institute of Technology.
    Website
  6. CVPR 2024
    CRKD: Enhanced Camera-Radar Object Detection with Cross-modality Knowledge Distillation
    Lingjun Zhao*, Jingyu Song*, Katherine A. Skinner.
    FCAV, University of Michigan.
    Website
  7. ICRA 2024
    LiRaFusion: Deep Adaptive LiDAR-Radar Fusion for 3D Object Detection
    Jingyu Song, Lingjun Zhao, Katherine A. Skinner.
    FCAV, University of Michigan.
    Paper
  8. IEEE Sensors Journal
    A Tactile Sensor With Slippage Prediction by Unequal-Height Dome Array
    Yong Yang, Meirong Zhao, Yifan Jia, Lingjun Zhao, Dongji Piao, Yelong Zheng, Le Song.
    Tianjin University.
    Paper

Project

  1. Automatic Parking System: Dynamics Model, MPC Control and Hybrid A* Planning for Self-parking Vehicles
    ROB 599: Autonomous Vehicles, directed by Prof. Anouck Girard
    09/2023 ~ 12/2023, University of Michigan
    Report Code
  2. Loc-NeRF++: An Enhanced Robot Localization using Neural Radiance Fields
    ROB 530: Mobile Robotics, directed by Prof. Maani Ghaffari
    01/2023 ~ 04/2023, University of Michigan
    Report Code Video
  3. Ordinary Differential Equation Based Learning Dynamics for Robotic Systems
    ROB 498: Robot Learning for Planning and Control, directed by Prof. Nima Fazeli and Dmitry Berenson
    01/2023 ~ 04/2023, University of Michigan
    Report Code
  4. Depth-aware and Laplacian-steered Instance Style Transfer
    EECS 504: Computer Vision, directed by Prof. Andrew Owens
    08/2022 ~ 12/2022, University of Michigan
    Report Code
  5. ArmLab: Autnomous Control, Block Detection, and Path Planning for a 5-DOF Robotic Manipulator
    ROB 550: Robotics Systems Laboratory, directed by Prof. Peter Gaskell
    08/2022 ~ 10/2022, University of Michigan
  6. BotLab: PID Control, SLAM and Exploration for a MBot
    ROB 550: Robotics Systems Laboratory, directed by Prof. Peter Gaskell
    10/2022 ~ 12/2022, University of Michigan
  7. Design and Manufacturing of Soft Manipulator with Compound Structure
    Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Project, directed by Prof. Fujun Wang
    05/2020 ~ 05/2021, Tianjin University

Education