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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 |
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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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2025 - CFAR Internship Award for Research Excellence.
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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.
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2022 - Finalist (Top 1.3% Global), Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM), First author
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2021 - National First Prize, 16th National Smart Car Race
Online Profiles
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Music production, Cooking, Visual design, and anything I haven't tried yet.