Siheng Zhao

I am a first-year CS Ph.D. Student at University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Yue Wang. I received my Bachelor's degree with the highest honor at School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University.

Previously, I was honoured to work with Prof. Tao Yu, Prof. Yanchao Yang, Prof. Lin Shao, and Dr. Jiangmiao Pang at the University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, and Shanghai AI Lab.

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News

[Sep, 2024] OSWorld is accepted by NeurIPS 2024.
[Sep, 2024] TieBot is accepted by CoRL 2024 as Oral.
[Aug, 2024] Formally join USC as a PhD student.
[Jan, 2024] kNN-BOX is accepted by EACL 2024.
[Jan, 2024] Text2Reward and Lemur are accepted by ICLR 2024 as Spotlight.
[Dec, 2023] Awarded SenseTime Scholarship (30 undergraduates in the field of AI in China).
[Dec, 2023] Awarded Nanjing University Top-Grade Scholarship (highest honor in Nanjing University).
[July, 2023] ClothesNet is accepted by ICCV 2023.
[June, 2023] DiffClothAI is accepted by IROS 2023.

Research

My research interests now lie at the intersection of (Language-conditioned) Generative Model and Embodied Intelligence. My long-term goal is to build the next generation of autonomous and intelligent agents that can proactively sense, plan, and interact with both the physical and digital world.

Current topics:

Video/Motion Generation Model for Embodied Control: UH-1 (arXiv'24).
LLMs/VLMs for Embodied Control: Text2Reward (ICLR'24 Spotlight), GRUtopia (arXiv'24).

Previous topics:

Language and multimodal digital agents: Lemur (ICLR'24 Spotlight), OSWorld (NeurIPS'24).
Simulation, perception and manipulation of deformable objects: DiffClothAI (IROS'23), ClothesNet (ICCV'23), TieBot (CoRL'24 Oral).

Selected Publications

* denotes equal contribution. For the full publication list, please refer to my Google Scholar .

	Learning from Massive Human Videos for Universal Humanoid Pose Control Siheng Zhao, Jiageng Mao, Siqi Song, Tianheng Shi, Junjie Ye, Mingtong Zhang, Haoran Geng, Jitendra Malik, Vitor Guizilini, Yue Wang arXiv 2024* [arxiv] [project] [dataset🤗]
	OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments Tianbao Xie, Danyang Zhang, Jixuan Chen, Xiaochuan Li, Siheng Zhao, Ruisheng Cao, Toh Jing Hua, Zhoujun Cheng, Dongchan Shin, Fangyu Lei, Yitao Liu, Yiheng Xu, Shuyan Zhou, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Victor Zhong, Tao Yu Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024 [arxiv] [project]
	Text2Reward: Reward Shaping with Language Models for Reinforcement Learning Siheng Zhao, Tianbao Xie, Chen Henry Wu, Yitao Liu, Qian Luo, Victor Zhong, Yanchao Yang, Tao Yu International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2024 Spotlight [arxiv] [project]
	TieBot: Learning to Knot a Tie from Visual Demonstration through a Real-to-Sim-to-Real Approach Weikun Peng, Jun Lv, Yuwei Zeng, Haonan Chen, Siheng Zhao, Jichen Sun, Cewu Lu, Lin Shao Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024 Oral [arxiv] [project]
	DiffClothAI: Differentiable Cloth Simulation with Intersection-free Frictional Contact and Differentiable Two-Way Coupling with Articulated Rigid Bodies Siheng Zhao, Xinyuan Yu, Siyuan Luo, Gang Yang, Lin Shao International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023 [paper] [project]

Education

University of Southern California
Ph.D. in Computer Science (2024 - )
Advisor: Prof. Yue Wang

Nanjing University
B.Eng. in Artificial Intelligence (2020 - 2024)
Overall GPA: 94.4/100, Ranking: 1/97

National University of Singapore
Exchange in Computer Science (2023)
Overall GPA: 4.0/4.0

Work Experience

Shanghai AI Lab, OpenRobot Group
Research Intern (2024)
Advisor: Dr. Jiangmiao Pang

The University of Hong Kong, NLP Group
Research Assistant (2023)
Advisor: Prof. Tao Yu

Services

Conference Reviewer:
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025
- International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2025
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025
- International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025
- Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2024
- Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024
Journal Reviewer:

Talks

OSWorld: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Open-Ended Tasks in Real Computer Environments, Shanghai AI Lab, 2024
Text2Reward: Reward Shaping with Language Models for Reinforcement Learning, SenseTime, 2024
Text2Reward: Reward Shaping with Language Models for Reinforcement Learning, Shanghai AI Lab, 2023, 2024
Large Language Model for Robotics: a High-level Planner, Nanjing University NLP Group, 2023

Honors & Awards

University of Southern California PhD Fellowship, 2024
Outstanding Graduate of Nanjing University, 2024
Travel Award of the International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024
Jiangsu Province Study Abroad Scholarship, 2024
SenseTime Scholarship, 2023, awarded to 30 undergraduates in the field of AI in China
Nanjing University Top-Grade Scholarship, 2023, the highest honor in Nanjing University
Bao Gang Scholarship & Special Prize Nomination, 2023
Heng Fang Scholarship, 2022
National Scholarship, 2021, the highest honor in China's University
China Telecom Scholarship, 2021

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