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My first 1/8 life (Maybe someday we could live to 200 years old 🤔)

General Information

Full Name Xingjian(Siny) Zhang 张行健
Email xingjian@u.nus.edu
Website https://sinyzxj.github.io
Location Storey 9, Create Tower, SMART, Singapore 138602
Languages Chinese (Native), English (Fluent)
Interests Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning, Physical AI, Embodied AI

Education

  • 2024 - 2026
    M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
    National University of Singapore, Singapore
    • GPA: 4.72/5.0
    • Courses: Machine Learning in Robotics, Autonomous Mobile Robotics, Soft Robotics
  • 2023 - 2024
    Exchange Student in Robotics & Control
    NUS Research Institute, Suzhou, China
    • GPA: 4.0/4.0
    • Courses: Robot Mechanics and Control, Automation in Manufacturing, Product Design and Development
  • 2020 - 2024
    B.Eng. in Automation
    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
    • Awarded Outstanding Student of 2020-2021
    • Courses: Modern Control Theory, Advanced Language Programming (C/C++), Data Structures and Algorithms

Experience

  • 2025.01 - 2025.06
    Research Intern, M3S
    SMART, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    • Applied Transformer architectures within GAIL to predict sequential educational and career trajectories from expert demonstrations.
  • 2025.06 - 2025.08
    Research Intern
    A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR)
    • Initiated project on robust reflective planning with generative physical simulation for long-horizon manipulation under test-time constraints by neuro-symbolic reasoning.

Projects

  • 2024.07 - 2025.06
    COMPASS: Cooperative Multi-Agent Persistent Monitoring
    • Developed spatio-temporal attention network using PPO and Gaussian Processes on graph structures.
    • Validated in AirSim (UE4) with improved uncertainty reduction and scalability.
  • 2023.09 - 2024.05
    Hand-tracking and Object Detection for Verification in Assembly
    • Combined LSTM gesture recognition and object detection to verify manual assembly stages.
    • Developed a CNN-based angle detection network for component alignment.
  • 2021.12 - 2022.12
    Collaborative Motion Control of Dual Robots
    • Real-time trajectory tracking and dual-robot coordination using Cartographer, Kalman filtering, CAN/I2C communication.

Publications

  • 2024
    Learning-based Stage Verification System in Manual Assembly Scenarios (Submitted)
    International Conference on Smart and Advanced Manufacturing
    • Stereo camera-based learning system to improve manual assembly accuracy.
  • 2025
    Attention-Based Learning for 3D Informative Path Planning
    arXiv
    • Enhanced 3D informative path planning via attention mechanisms.
    • Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08434
  • 2025
    COMPASS: Cooperative Multi-Agent Persistent Surveillance using Spatio-Temporal Attention Network
    MRS 2025 (to appear)
    • Introduced spatio-temporal attention network for multi-agent surveillance.

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    • CFAR Internship Award for Research Excellence.
  • 2022
    • National Third Prize, The 21st China University Robot Competition ROBOCON, Built and calibrated a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) targeting system; integrated with DJI M3508 motors via custom serial communication protocol.
  • 2022
    • Finalist (Top 1.3% Global), Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), First author
  • 2021
    • National First Prize, 16th National Smart Car Race

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Music production, Cooking, Visual design, and anything I haven't tried yet.