Siqi Zheng.

ABOUT / RESEARCH

Siqi Zheng

I will be a joint PhD student at Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute (SQZ) starting in Fall 2027, conducting research under the supervision of Alex Lamb in his group at Tsinghua University.

My research focuses on multimodal perception and fusion for quadruped and humanoid robots. I study vision-olfaction fusion for robot navigation and whole-body tactile learning for humanoid loco-manipulation.

I am an undergraduate in Digital Media Art at the Communication University of China (2023–2027), with a curriculum focused on human-computer interaction. My research experience spans Tsinghua University’s Future Laboratory, TEA Lab with Huazhe Xu, and Xu Lab with Mengdi Xu.

Portrait of Siqi Zheng
Siqi ZhengEmbodied intelligence
Multimodal robotics

01 / SELECTED WORK

Selected publications

Robotics · Perception · Human-computer interaction

Uni-VLaT research overview
CoRL 2026 Workshop · Accepted for Poster PresentationUnder review at ICRA 2027Humanoid robotics

Uni-VLaT: Whole-Body Tactile Adaptation of VLA Policies for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Accepted for poster presentation at the CoRL 2026 Workshop on Open Problems in Contact-Rich Loco-Manipulation (November 12, 2026).

Zihao Wang*, Shutong Liu*, Siqi Zheng, Liu Cao, Ruoqu Chen, Rundong Liu, Yanchao Yang, Mengdi Xu

Adapting pretrained vision-language-action policies with whole-body touch and tactile-anchored multimodal prediction for contact-rich humanoid control.

VismellNav research overview
Under review at ICRA 2027Quadruped navigation

VismellNav: Learning Vision-Olfaction Fusion for Robust Odor Source Navigation

Fusing vision, distributed olfactory sensing, and proprioception with an adaptive flow-matching policy to guide quadrupeds toward hidden odor sources in unseen environments.

BernO research overview
CHI 2026Olfactory HCI

BernO: A Breath-Driven Odor Display for Spatial Olfactory Interaction in VR

Yu Zhang*, Chih-Hung Lee*, Jingtong Cai, Yaqing Hou, Siqi Zheng, Qianyao Xu, Qi Lu

A breath-driven odor display that uses natural inhalation to render dynamic spatial scent cues in virtual reality.

PlayScent research overview
DIS 2026Multisensory interaction

PlayScent: Exploring Olfactory Texture Across Scent Delivery Methods

Chih-Hung Lee*, Yu Zhang*, Suhang Wei, Yuling Yang, Siqi Zheng, Qi Lu

A modular scent-delivery platform and empirical study exploring how delivery methods shape olfactory perception and interaction design.

* Equal contribution. Under-review status is indicated above.

02 / RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Experience

2027 — UPCOMING

PhD research with Alex Lamb

Alex Lamb’s group

Embodied intelligence, with interests in multimodal perception and fusion, quadruped robots, and humanoid robots.

JUL 2026 — SEP 2026

Xu Lab · Mengdi Xu

Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University

Whole-body tactile sensing and multimodal learning for humanoid loco-manipulation.

Uni-VLaT ↗

OCT 2025 — SEP 2026

TEA Lab · Huazhe Xu

Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University

Vision-olfaction fusion for robust quadruped navigation.

VismellNav ↗

MAR 2025 — SEP 2025

Olfactory Research Group

The Future Laboratory, Tsinghua University

Olfactory displays, spatial scent perception, and multisensory human-computer interaction.

BernO ↗PlayScent ↗

03 / EDUCATION

Communication University
of China

2023 — 2027 · EXPECTED

Undergraduate, Digital Media Art

Curriculum focus: Human-Computer Interaction

04 / CONTACT

Contact

ceciliazheng47@gmail.com ↗GitHub / SiqiZheng777 ↗