Zhuoqun Chen is now a PhD student at Duke University. He conducted his research intership at the Spatial AI and Robotics (SAIR) Lab from Aug 2024 to Aug 2025. Prior to joining the SAIR Lab, he pursued an MSE in Robotics at UC San Diego. Zhuoqun’s past research primarily focused on learning-based legged locomotion.

Experience

Research Intern
- SAIR Lab, University at Buffalo (UB), USA
- Aug. 2024 - Aug. 2025
Research Intern
- Wang Lab, UC San Diego, USA
- Nov. 2022 - Jul. 2024

Education

PhD Student
- Duke University
- Aug. 2025 - Present
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- UC San Diego, USA
- Sep. 2022 - Jul. 2024
Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunication Engineering
- Zhengzhou University, China
- Sep. 2017 - Jul. 2021

Other Information

Work Email: zqchen33@gmail.com

Publications

VL-Nav: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Reasoning-based Vision-Language Navigation.
Yi Du, Taimeng Fu, Zhipeng Zhao, Shaoshu Su, Zitong Zhan, Qiwei Du, Zhuoqun Chen, Bowen Li, Chen Wang.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.00931, 2026.

Deployment-ready neuro-symbolic vision-language navigation
```
@article{du2026vlnav,
  title = {{VL-Nav}: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Reasoning-based Vision-Language Navigation},
  author = {Du, Yi and Fu, Taimeng and Zhao, Zhipeng and Su, Shaoshu and Zhan, Zitong and Du, Qiwei and Chen, Zhuoqun and Li, Bowen and Wang, Chen},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.00931},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00931},
  website = {https://sairlab.org/vlnav/},
  cover = {/img/posts/2025-02-01-vlnav/vlnav_cover.mp4},
  addendum = {Deployment-ready neuro-symbolic vision-language navigation}
}
```
```
Du, Yi and Fu, Taimeng and Zhao, Zhipeng and Su, Shaoshu and Zhan, Zitong and Du, Qiwei and Chen, Zhuoqun and Li, Bowen and Wang, Chen, "VL-Nav: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Reasoning-based Vision-Language Navigation," arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.00931, 2026.
```
AirRoom: Objects Matter in Room Reidentification.
Runmao Yao, Yi Du, Zhuoqun Chen, Haoze Zheng, Chen Wang.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 1385–1394, 2025.
```
@inproceedings{yao2025airroom,
  title = {{AirRoom}: Objects Matter in Room Reidentification},
  author = {Yao, Runmao and Du, Yi and Chen, Zhuoqun and Zheng, Haoze and Wang, Chen},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01130},
  website = {https://sairlab.org/airroom/},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {1385--1394},
  code = {https://github.com/21yrm/AirRoom},
  cover = {/img/posts/2025-03-02-airroom/airroom.jpg}
}
```
```
Yao, Runmao and Du, Yi and Chen, Zhuoqun and Zheng, Haoze and Wang, Chen, "AirRoom: Objects Matter in Room Reidentification," IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
```
iKap: Kinematics-aware Planning with Imperative Learning.
Qihang Li, Zhuoqun Chen, Haoze Zheng, Haonan He, Shaoshu Su, Junyi Geng, Chen Wang.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 10164–10170, 2025.

First imperative learning planner that respects robot kinematics constraints
```
@inproceedings{li2025ikap,
  title = {{iKap}: Kinematics-aware Planning with Imperative Learning},
  author = {Li, Qihang and Chen, Zhuoqun and Zheng, Haoze and He, Haonan and Su, Shaoshu and Geng, Junyi and Wang, Chen},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {10164--10170},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09496},
  video = {https://youtu.be/7HPAMFbHc4U},
  website = {https://sairlab.org/iKap},
  cover = {/img/posts/2024-12-12-ikap/cover.gif},
  addendum = {First imperative learning planner that respects robot kinematics constraints}
}
```
```
Li, Qihang and Chen, Zhuoqun and Zheng, Haoze and He, Haonan and Su, Shaoshu and Geng, Junyi and Wang, Chen, "iKap: Kinematics-aware Planning with Imperative Learning," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025.
```
Generalized Animal Imitator: Agile Locomotion with Versatile Motion Prior.
Ruihan Yang, Zhuoqun Chen, Jianhan Ma, Chongyi Zheng, Yiyu Chen, Quan Nguyen, Xiaolong Wang.
CoRL Deployable Workshop, 2023.

Best Paper Award
```
@article{yang2023generalized,
  title = {Generalized Animal Imitator: Agile Locomotion with Versatile Motion Prior},
  author = {Yang, Ruihan and Chen, Zhuoqun and Ma, Jianhan and Zheng, Chongyi and Chen, Yiyu and Nguyen, Quan and Wang, Xiaolong},
  journal = {CoRL Deployable Workshop},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01408},
  video = {https://youtu.be/LNPfT-9LUGs},
  addendum = {Best Paper Award}
}
```
```
Yang, Ruihan and Chen, Zhuoqun and Ma, Jianhan and Zheng, Chongyi and Chen, Yiyu and Nguyen, Quan and Wang, Xiaolong, "Generalized Animal Imitator: Agile Locomotion with Versatile Motion Prior," CoRL Deployable Workshop, 2023.
```