Zichen “Charles” Zhang Email & Phone Number

United States

- "PoliFormer: Scaling On-Policy RL with Transformers Results in Masterful Navigators", Outstanding Paper Award at CoRL 2024- "Unified-IO 2: Scaling Autoregressive Multimodal Model with Vision, Language, Audio, and Action", Highlight at CVPR 2024- "Universal Visual Decomposer: Long-Horizon Manipulation Made Easy", Best Paper Award in Robot Vision Finalist.

Join the research with people from SVL and NVIDIA, mentored by Jim Fan (now at Nvidia), and Yuke Zhu (Now at UT-Austin & NVIDIA). "VIMA: General Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts" paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03094, website: https://vimalabs.github.io/International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023covered by NVIDIA GTC Jensen Huang.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

• Teaching Assistant (Preceptor) in COMP 394 Reinforcement Learning in module 4 and MATH 378 Complex Analysis in module 3 in Spring 2021, COMP 128 Data Structure in Fall 2020, and STAT/COMP 112 Intro to the Data Science.
• Write code implementations for homework and class materials, and help the professor with developing homework for the topics course Reinforcement Learning
• Help professors grade homework and hold office hours to help students in classes

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Geometric Measure Theory research with professor Lisa Naples at Macalester College
• Learn and understand the fractal geometry, measure theory
• After answering the Traveling Salesman Problem(TSP), we extend the characterization of measures that are carried by rectifiable curves in the dyadic cube system
• Accepted for Joint Mathematics Meeting(JMM) 2022, AMS Contributed Paper Session on Functions of Complex Variables, Measure and Integration Theory(1 of 6 presenters), and America Mathematical Society-Pi Mu.

Beijing, China

• Mentored by Eric Wang, the chief technology officer(CTO) of Thorough Images which is a professional artificial intelligence (AI) company dedicated to complete intelligent solutions for pathological images
• Apply the National Invention Patent as the inventor of an autonomous scoring system for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2(HER-2) after immunohistochemical(IHC) staining, and will be in use in Chinese.
• Use computer vision techniques realized by OpenCV, Skiamge libraries, and models with various types of deep learning neural networks implemented by PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Keras libraries to preprocess, recognize.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

• 2020 Summer Research with professor Esra Kadioglu Urtis at Macalester College
• Implement the area coverage approach on unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)
• Design and implement efficient NMDP and MDP tabular Q learning for single drone coverage in a given regular or irregular environment, built in Gym or by graph; and ACKTR deep reinforcement learning for the double.
• Project funded by MacKnight-Haan-Ludwig Summer Research Collaboration Fund, Class of 1950 Summer Research Collaboration Fund, Anderson-Grossheusch Summer Research Collaboration Fund, Mac/Faculty Collaboration Summer.