I am Boyu Chen (陈博俣), an undergraduate student at the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University.

I will be joining MMLab@HKU as a PhD student in Fall 2026, fortunately advised by Prof. Ping Luo, Prof. Hongyang Li, and Prof. Yi Ma.

🔭 Research Interests

My research interests lie at the intersection of Robotics, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, and World Models. I am particularly interested in building generalist agents that can perceive, reason, and act in the physical world.

💼 Experience

Research Intern, XPENG, Shenzhen
Multimodal Intelligence Department, Robotics Center
Jul 2025 – Present · Supervised by Yuying Ge and Yixiao Ge

🎓 Education

B.Eng. in Automation
Department of Automation, Tsinghua University
Sep 2022 – Present · GPA 4.0 / 4.0 · Ranked 1 / 145

📝 Publications

UniT: Toward a Unified Physical Language for Human-to-Humanoid Policy Learning and World Modeling

Boyu Chen*, Yi Chen*, Lu Qiu, Jerry Bai, Yuying Ge†, Yixiao Ge

*Equal contribution   †Corresponding author

Preprint, 2026

UniT establishes a unified physical language — a single tokenizer that enables zero-shot human-to-humanoid transfer for both policy learning and world modeling.

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🏆 Honors & Awards

• National Scholarship (highest scholarship given by the government of China), Dec 2025
• National Scholarship (highest scholarship given by the government of China), Dec 2024
• Tsinghua University Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship (Top 10 / 145), Dec 2023
• First Prize, National College Mathematics Competition (Non-Math Group A), Dec 2023
• First Prize, National College Physics Competition (Non-Physics Group A), Dec 2023

📫 Contact

Feel free to reach out via email: boyuc448@gmail.com