Yanyan Zhang

PhD Student

Yanyan Zhang

Yanyan Zhang

PhD Student

Computer Vision, Embodied AI, and Visual Reasoning.

Email: student06@vulab.example

Personal page: https://example.com/student-placeholder-06

Location: VU Lab, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

Team page: Back to Team

Yanyan Zhang is a Ph.D. student in Computer Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, advised by Prof. Yu Yin and Prof. Vipin Chaudhary. Her research lies at the intersection of Computer Vision and Embodied AI, with a focus on temporal perception and dynamic scene understanding for Vision-Language-Action systems.

Education

  • Ph.D, Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University (August 2024 - Present)
  • B.S., Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Michigan (August 2021 - May 2024)

Research Interests

  • Computer Vision
  • Embodied AI
  • Visual Reasoning

Experience

  • Research Assistant, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (2023-2024)

Selected Publications

  • Nebula: Do we Evaluate Vision-Language-Action Agents Correctly?

Publications

  1. Expo-GS: Exposure-Aware Signed Distance Function in Gaussian Splatting for High Dynamic Range.
    Chaoda Song, Yiren Lu, Xinpeng Li, Yunlai Zhou, Yanyan Zhang, Yu Yin and Vipin Chaudhary.
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.
     
    @article{song2026expo,
  title = {Expo-GS: Exposure-Aware Signed Distance Function in Gaussian Splatting for High Dynamic Range},
  author = {Song, Chaoda and Lu, Yiren and Li, Xinpeng and Zhou, Yunlai and Zhang, Yanyan and Yin, Yu and Chaudhary, Vipin},
  journal = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2026},
  status = {accepted},
  pdf = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2026/poster/66548}
}

    

    

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    Nebula: Do we Evaluate Vision-Language-Action Agents Correctly? 
    Jierui Peng, Yanyan Zhang, Yicheng Duan, Tuo Liang, Vipin Chaudhary and Yu Yin.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.16263, 2025.
    
    
    
    
    

    

    

    

    

    

    
    
    
        
    
    
        
    
    
    
    
    

    


    @article{peng2025nebula,
  title = {Nebula: Do we Evaluate Vision-Language-Action Agents Correctly?},
  author = {Peng, Jierui and Zhang, Yanyan and Duan, Yicheng and Liang, Tuo and Chaudhary, Vipin and Yin, Yu},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.16263},
  year = {2025},
  status = {preprint},
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.16263.pdf},
  website = {/projects/nebula-alpha/}
}