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Hanqing Wang

Research Scientist · Shanghai AI Laboratory

I lead the Digital Modeling and Simulation Platform Team at the Embodied AI Center. My research focuses on embodied navigation, generalist robot policies, and large-scale simulation for embodied AI.

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Hanqing Wang

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Background & Research

I am a Research Scientist at the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where I lead the Digital Modeling and Simulation Platform Team at the Embodied AI Center. My research spans embodied navigation and perception, generalist robot policies, and large-scale simulators and benchmarks for embodied AI.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Media Computing and Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the Beijing Institute of Technology in 2024, advised by Prof. Wei Liang. During my Ph.D., I was a visiting student at ETH Zürich's Computer Vision Lab (2021–2023), supervised by Prof. Luc Van Gool and Prof. Wenguan Wang. I also collaborated with Prof. Lap-Fai (Craig) Yu at George Mason University and held research internships at Microsoft Research Asia (with Jiaolong Yang) and the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (with Prof. Jianbing Shen).

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SIM1: Physics-Aligned Simulator as Zero-Shot Data Scaler in Deformable Worlds

SIM1: Physics-Aligned Simulator as Zero-Shot Data Scaler in Deformable Worlds

Yunsong Zhou, Hangxu Liu, Xuekun Jiang, Xing Shen, Yuanzhen Zhou, Hui Wang, Baole Fang, Yang Tian, Mulin Yu, Qiaojun Yu, Li Ma, Hengjie Li, Hanqing Wang, Jia Zeng, Jiangmiao Pang

arXiv preprint, 2026

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Tac2Real: Reliable and GPU Visuotactile Simulation for Online Reinforcement Learning and Zero-Shot Real-World Deployment

Tac2Real: Reliable and GPU Visuotactile Simulation for Online Reinforcement Learning and Zero-Shot Real-World Deployment

Ningyu Yan, Shuai Wang, Xing Shen, Hui Wang, Hanqing Wang†, Yang Xiang, Jiangmiao Pang

arXiv preprint, 2026

Paper Project
InternVLA-A1: Unifying Understanding, Generation and Action for Robotic Manipulation

InternVLA-A1: Unifying Understanding, Generation and Action for Robotic Manipulation

Junhao Cai, Zetao Cai, Jiafei Cao, Yilun Chen, Hanqing Wang, et al.

arXiv preprint, 2026

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VL-LN Bench: Towards Long-horizon Goal-oriented Navigation with Active Dialogs

VL-LN Bench: Towards Long-horizon Goal-oriented Navigation with Active Dialogs

Wensi Huang, Shaohao Zhu, Meng Wei, Jinming Xu, Xihui Liu, Hanqing Wang†, Tai Wang, Feng Zhao, Jiangmiao Pang

arXiv preprint, 2025

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Language-to-Space Programming for Training-Free 3D Visual Grounding

Language-to-Space Programming for Training-Free 3D Visual Grounding

Boyu Mi, Hanqing Wang†, Tai Wang, Yilun Chen, Jiangmiao Pang

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025

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InternVLA-M1: A Spatially Guided Vision-Language-Action Framework for Generalist Robot Policy

InternVLA-M1: A Spatially Guided Vision-Language-Action Framework for Generalist Robot Policy

Xinyi Chen, Yilun Chen, Yanwei Fu, Ning Gao, Hanqing Wang, et al.

arXiv preprint, 2025

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Rethinking the Embodied Gap in Vision-and-Language Navigation: A Holistic Study of Physical and Visual Disparities

Rethinking the Embodied Gap in Vision-and-Language Navigation: A Holistic Study of Physical and Visual Disparities

Liuyi Wang, Xinyuan Xia, Hui Zhao, Hanqing Wang†, Tai Wang, Yilun Chen, Chengju Liu, Qijun Chen, Jiangmiao Pang

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025

Paper Project
InternScenes: A Large-Scale Simulatable Indoor Scene Dataset with Realistic Layouts

InternScenes: A Large-Scale Simulatable Indoor Scene Dataset with Realistic Layouts

Weipeng Zhong, Peizhou Cao, Yichen Jin, Li Luo, Wenzhe Cai, Jingli Lin, Hanqing Wang, Zhaoyang Lyu, Tai Wang, Bo Dai, Xudong Xu, Jiangmiao Pang

arXiv preprint, 2025

Paper Code Project
StreamVLN: Streaming Vision-and-Language Navigation via SlowFast Context Modeling

StreamVLN: Streaming Vision-and-Language Navigation via SlowFast Context Modeling

Meng Wei, Chenyang Wan, Xiqian Yu, Tai Wang, Yuqiang Yang, Xiaohan Mao, Chenming Zhu, Wenzhe Cai, Hanqing Wang, Yilun Chen, Xihui Liu, Jiangmiao Pang

arXiv preprint, 2025

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GenManip: LLM-driven Simulation for Generalizable Instruction-Following Manipulation

GenManip: LLM-driven Simulation for Generalizable Instruction-Following Manipulation

Ning Gao, Yilun Chen, Shuai Yang, Xinyi Chen, Yang Tian, Hao Li, Haifeng Huang, Hanqing Wang, Tai Wang, Jiangmiao Pang

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

Paper Code Project

Mastering Scene Rearrangement with Expert-Assisted Curriculum Learning and Adaptive Trade-Off Tree-Search

Zan Wang, Hanqing Wang, Wei Liang

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024

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GRUtopia: Dream General Robots in a City at Scale

GRUtopia: Dream General Robots in a City at Scale

Hanqing Wang, Jiahe Chen, Wensi Huang, Qingwei Ben, Tai Wang, et al.

arXiv preprint, 2024

Paper Code Project
ETPNav: Evolving Topological Planning for Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments

ETPNav: Evolving Topological Planning for Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments

Dong An, Hanqing Wang, Wenguan Wang, Zun Wang, Yan Huang, Keji He, Liang Wang

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), 2024

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DREAMWALKER: Mental Planning for Continuous Vision-Language Navigation

DREAMWALKER: Mental Planning for Continuous Vision-Language Navigation

Hanqing Wang, Wei Liang, Luc Van Gool, Wenguan Wang

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023

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Discovering the Real Association: Multimodal Causal Reasoning in Video Question Answering

Discovering the Real Association: Multimodal Causal Reasoning in Video Question Answering

Chuanqi Zang, Hanqing Wang, Mingtao Pei, Wei Liang

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023

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Active Perception for Visual-Language Navigation<br><br>

Active Perception for Visual-Language Navigation

Hanqing Wang, Wenguan Wang, Wei Liang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Jianbing Shen, Luc Van Gool

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 2023

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Towards Versatile Embodied Navigation<br><br>

Towards Versatile Embodied Navigation

Hanqing Wang, Wei Liang, Jianbing Shen, Luc Van Gool and Wenguan Wang

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022

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Counterfactual Cycle-Consistent Learning for Instruction Following and Generation in Vision-Language Navigation

Counterfactual Cycle-Consistent Learning for Instruction Following and Generation in Vision-Language Navigation

Hanqing Wang, Wei Liang, Jianbing Shen, Luc Van Gool and Wenguan Wang

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022

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Structured Scene Memory for Vision-Language Navigation

Structured Scene Memory for Vision-Language Navigation

Hanqing Wang, Wenguan Wang, Wei Liang and Jianbing Shen

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021

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Scene Mover: Automatic Move Planning for Scene Arrangement by Deep Reinforcement Learning

Scene Mover: Automatic Move Planning for Scene Arrangement by Deep Reinforcement Learning

Hanqing Wang, Wei Liang and Lap-Fai Yu

SIGGRAPH Asia 2020. ACM Trans. Graph., Vol. 39, No. 6, Article 233. Publication date: December 2020.

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Active Visual Information Gathering for Vision-Language Navigation

Active Visual Information Gathering for Vision-Language Navigation

Hanqing Wang, Wenguan Wang, Tianmin Shu, Wei Liang and Jianbing Shen

Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020

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Deep Single-View 3D Object Reconstruction with Visual Hull Embedding

Deep Single-View 3D Object Reconstruction with Visual Hull Embedding

Hanqing Wang, Jiaolong Yang, Wei Liang and Xin Tong

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019, (Oral)

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Transferring Objects: Joint Inference of Container and Human Pose

Transferring Objects: Joint Inference of Container and Human Pose

Hanqing Wang, Wei Liang and Lap-Fai Yu

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017

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Joint Labelling and Segmentation for 3D Scanned Human Body

Joint Labelling and Segmentation for 3D Scanned Human Body

Hanqing Wang, Changyang Li, Zikai Gao and Wei Liang

SIGGRAPH ASIA 2016 Virtual Reality meets Physical Reality Workshop

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Looking for Motivated Interns

I am currently looking for interns interested in robot learning and embodied AI. If you're excited about developing cutting-edge research in intelligent systems, let's talk.

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