I am a final-year Ph.D. student at HKUST and also a member affiliated with GEAR at NVIDIA Research, working with Joel Jang, Jim Fan, and Yuke Zhu. I am currently scaling foundation models for general-purpose robots. Previously, I was fortunate to work at OpenDriveLab led by Hongyang Li.

I will be on the job market for Mid 2026. Feel free to contact me!

Please find my up-to-date [Resume] to check my current status.

• Embodied AI: Generalist Robots, Learning from Web Data
• Generative AI: Video World Models, Open-Ended Learning

Universal Latent Actions for Embodied Decision Making

Generalizable World Models for Autonomous Driving

Million-Scale Datasets for Scalable Learning

Vision Transformers for Object Tracking

I was born in the last year of the 20th century (May 17th, 2000). I hope to live until the 22nd century so that my life would span three centuries. The Chinese meanings of each word in my name (高深远) are "High", "Deep", "Far", respectively.

• Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Engineering, 2022-2026 (expected)
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, under the tutelage of Prof. Jun Zhang (IEEE Fellow)
• B.Eng. in Electronic Information Engineering, 2018-2022
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Advanced Class (GPA 3.9/4.0, ranked 1st)

• XingQi Intern (the highest honor for research interns at Shanghai AI Laboratory)
• NeurIPS Top Reviewer
• RedBird PhD Scholarship
• Full Postgraduate Scholarship
• Outstanding Graduate
• Outstanding Graduation Thesis
• Outstanding Undergraduate in Terms of Academic Performance (Top 1%)
• National Scholarship (Top 2%)

• Workshop Organizer
  • CVPR 2025 Workshop on Scalable Robot Learning Systems
  • NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Embodied World Models for Decision Making
• Conference Reviewer
  • ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, RSS, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, WACV, AAAI, AISTATS, ICPR
• Journal Reviewer
  • TMLR, TPAMI, TMM, TCSVT, TASE, IMAVIS, PR
• Teaching Assistant
  • COMP 5214: Advanced Deep Learning Architectures (graduate/undergraduate)
  • ELEC 3100: Signal Processing and Communications (undergraduate)

• Personal Email: sygao@connect.ust.hk
• Work Email: shenyuang@nvidia.com
• WeChat: gsycm0517
• QQ: 917547962