Runjian Chen 陈润健

Runjian Chen 陈润健

PhD Student

University of Hong Kong

Biography

I am now a fourth-year PhD student at University of Hong Kong and HKU-MMLab, fortunately supervised by Prof. Ping Luo and co-advised by Prof. Wenping Wang and Xiaoou Tang. I work closely with Prof. Alex Wong, Dr. Wenqi Shao and Dr. Bo Zhang. My current research focus is on unsupervised 3D scene understanding and its application in autonomous driving and embodied AI.

Previously, I received my bachelor’s degree in Automation at Zhejiang Univerisity with an honor degree for the Mixed Class at Chu Kochen Honor College in July, 2020. At ZJU, I worked under the supervision of Prof. Rong Xiong and Yue Wang at ZJU.

Interests
  • Unsupervised Representation Learning
  • Autonomous Driving
  • Long-horizon Manipulation Learning
Education
  • BE in Automation, 2016--2020

    Zhejiang University

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2021--now

    University of Hong Kong

  • Visiting Student, 2024.01--2024.10

    Yale University

News

  • [Top] I am actively looking for Post-Doc / Research Scientist position starting from early 2026 / late 2025. Please reach out if there is a good match.
  • [Top] We are looking for self-motivated students to collaborate on unsupervised 3D scene understanding for autonomous driving and embodied AI. Drop me an email if you are interested.
  • 2024-05-01: 3 papers accepted by ICML 2024. MMT-Bench from Wenqi, Implicit Prompt from Yue and RoboCodeX from Yao. Congrats!
  • 2024-03-18: Our work CurriculumLoc on place recognition for remote sensing is accepted in TGRS. Congrats on Boni! [paper] [code]
  • 2024-01-07: Join Yale Vision Laboratory as a visiting student.
  • 2023-07-29: An extended version of CycleMLP is accepted in T-PAMI. Congrats on Shoufa! [paper] [code]
  • 2023-02-28: Our work MV-JAR on MAE-based unsupervised 3D representation learning for LiDAR point clouds is accepted in CVPR 2023. Congrats on Runsen! [paper] [code]
  • 2023-01-21: Our work CO^3 on Cooperative-Contrastive-based unsupervised 3D representation learning for LiDAR point clouds is accepted in ICLR 2023. Paper is available here and code is also released.
  • 2023-01-17: Our work “Failure-Aware Policy Learning for Self-Assessable Robotics Tasks” is accepted in ICRA 2023. Congrats on Kechun! [paper]
  • 2022-05-15: Our work CtrlFormer is accepted in ICML 2022. Congrats on Yao! [code]
  • 2022-03-02: Our work RestoreFormer is accepted in CVPR 2022. Congrats on Zhouxia! [paper] [code]
  • 2022-01-29: Our work CycleMLP is accepted in ICLR 2022 as oral presentation (1.6% acceptance rate). Congrats on Shoufa! [paper] [code]
  • 2021-07-30: Y S and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship offer.
  • 2021-04-12: Hong Kong PhD Fellowship offer.
  • 2021-02-18: A paper is accepted in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. (IF=6.3) [paper]
  • 2021-02-09: HKU Presidential Scholarship offer.
  • 2021-02-04: An RA-L paper is accepted and will be presented in ICRA 2021. See you in Xi’an, China! [paper] [code]

Publications

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(2024). CLAP: Unsupervised 3D Representation Learning for Fusion 3D Perception via Curvature Sampling and Prototype Learning.

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(2024). TREND: Unsupervised 3D Representation Learning via Temporal Forecasting for LiDAR Perception.

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(2022). COˆ3: Cooperative Unsupervised 3D Representation Learning for Autonomous Driving.

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(2022). CtrlFormer: Learning Transferable State Representation for Visual Control via Transformer. Proceedings of the 39 th International Conference on Machine Learning.

(2022). CycleMLP: A MLP-like Architecture for Dense Prediction. The 10th International Conference on Learning Representations (Oral Presentation, 1.6% acceptance rate).

(2022). Deep Samplable Observation Model for Global Localization and Kidnapping. IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS (RA-L).

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Awards

  • Y S and Christabel Lung Postgraduate Scholarship, 2021
  • Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, 2021-2025
  • HKU Presidential PhD Scholarship, 2021-2025
  • SUPCON Scholarship, 2019
  • Second-class Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 2019
  • Hailiang Scholarship, 2018
  • First-class Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 2017 & 2018

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Research Intern
Shanghai AI Lab
Oct 2024 – Mar 2025 Shanghai, China
 
 
 
 
 
Research Intern
Cruise
Jun 2024 – Sep 2024 California
 
 
 
 
 
Visiting PhD Student
Yale University
Mar 2024 – Sep 2024 Connecticut
 
 
 
 
 
Research Intern
Shanghai AI Lab
Aug 2022 – Mar 2024 Shanghai, China