About
I am an incoming PhD student at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University, where I will join the MARS Lab in September 2026 under the supervision of Prof. Hang Zhao.
I received my B.Eng. in Software Engineering from the School of Computer Science and Technology at Tongji University in June 2026. My research interests include autonomous driving, embodied intelligence, and multimodal large language models.
I am particularly interested in exploring how the generalization capabilities of large language models can be transferred to the physical world.
Research Experience
- Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute — Research Intern, March 2025–Present
- Li Auto — Research Intern in Autonomous Driving, April 2025–February 2026
News
DriveAgent-R1 was accepted to ICLR 2026 🎉
Publications
DriveMA: Driving Vision-Language-Action Models with Verifiable Meta-Actions
Weicheng Zheng, Yixin Huang, Qiao Sun, Derun Li, Hang Zhao†
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.31271 2026
A driving vision-language-action framework that uses verifiable meta-actions to close the gap between language-level intent and trajectory planning.
SLAM-Former: Putting SLAM into One Transformer
Yijun Yuan, Zhuoguang Chen, Kenan Li, Weibang Wang, Minghui Qin, Zhijian Fang, Weicheng Zheng, Hang Zhao
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2026
A unified transformer-based SLAM system whose cooperating frontend and backend deliver online tracking, dense mapping, and global refinement.
DriveAgent-R1: Advancing VLM-based Autonomous Driving with Active Perception and Hybrid Thinking
Weicheng Zheng, Xiaofei Mao, Nanfei Ye, Pengxiang Li, Kun Zhan, Xianpeng Lang, Hang Zhao†
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026
A VLM-based driving agent that improves planning reliability through active perception and adaptive hybrid reasoning.
Awards
Honors & Scholarships
- Shanghai Outstanding Graduate — June 2026
- National Scholarship — December 2024
- Shanghai Scholarship — 2022 & 2023
Academic Service
Peer-review service for the research community.
Conference Reviewer
CVPR · CoRL · ICME
Reviewed research submissions in computer vision, robot learning, and multimedia.