I am currently the Research Development Lead at 2077AI Foundation, where we advance open-source multimodal AI research and collaborate on human-aligned reward modeling and multimodal reasoning pipelines. We actively support academic collaborations, research funding initiatives, and internship programs. For potential cooperation, please feel free to contact me at ruby@2077ai.com.
I received my Ph.D. in Architecture, specializing in spatial intelligence, from Zhejiang University (advised by Prof. Haoying Han). During my doctoral studies, I was also enrolled in the Joint Ph.D. Program at the Singapore-ETH Centre, Future Cities Laboratory (advised by Prof. Thomas Schroepfer). I obtained my Bachelor’s degree from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University.
My research interests lie at the intersection of spatial intelligence and embodied AI, with a focus on:
- Large-scale simulated urban worlds integrating physical and social dynamics.
- LLM/VLM-driven agents capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting in rich spatial environments.
- Human-centric evaluation frameworks for embodied agents in open-ended city simulations.
🔥 News
2077AI Foundation
- 2026.02: 🎉🎉 One paper accepted to CVPR 2026!
- 2026.01: 🎉🎉 Nine papers accepted to ICLR 2026!
📝 Publications
Xuan Zhang, Lei Wang, Yang Yang, Haoying Han, Guoqiang Shen, Thomas Schroepfer, Jie He
- Integrated spatial accessibility, environmental quality, functional diversity, and flow variance for livability assessment.
Xuan Zhang, Haoying Han, Guoqiang Shen
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Evolution of Urban Street Greening Structure Based on Time Series Street View Data: A Case Study of the Central Urban Area of Shanghai, Wang Lei, Xuan Zhang, Haoying Han, He Jie, Landscape Architecture 2024
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Human-centric Interpretable Visual Evaluation of Urban Street based on Multimodal Perception Data: A Case Study of Shanghai, Xuan Zhang, Shuyang Li, Yining Zhang, Tianning Yao, Haoying Han, Liang Sun, Rudi Stouffs, 2024
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Multimodal Perception-Driven Safety Analysis for Urban Street, Xuan Zhang, Shuyang Li, Yining Zhang, Tianning Yao, Haoying Han, Liang Sun, Rudi Stouffs, Future 2024
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Verticality in Urban Spaces: Analysing Seating Preferences and the Spatial Network, Anjanaa Devi Srikanth, Freyaan Anklesaria, Yuqin Zhong, Xuan Zhang, Thomas Schroepfer, Space Syntax Symposium 2024
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Emotional-Health-Oriented Urban Design: A Novel Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Real-Time Landscape Assessment by Integrating Facial Expression Recognition and Pixel-Level Semantic Segmentation, Xuan Zhang, Haoying Han, Lin Qiao, Jingwei Zhuang, Ziming Ren, Yang Su, Yiping Xia, IJERPH 2022
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Effects of visual attributes of flower borders in urban vegetation landscapes on aesthetic preference and emotional perception, Jingwei Zhuang, Lin Qiao, Xuan Zhang, Yang Su, Yiping Xia, IJERPH 2021
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Assessing emotional responses to the spatial quality of urban green spaces through self-report and face recognition measures, Lin Qiao, Jingwei Zhuang, Xuan Zhang, Yang Su, Yiping Xia, IJERPH 2021
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2020.10 National Scholarship (Top 1%).
- 2016.10 National Scholarship (Undergraduate) (Top 1%)
📖 Educations
- 2019.09 - 2025.09, PhD, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
- 2022.12 - 2025.09, Joint PhD, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore.
- 2015.09 - 2019.06, Undergraduate, Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang Univeristy, Hangzhou, China.
- 2012.09 - 2015.06, Hangzhou No. 2 High School, Hangzhou, China.
💬 Invited Talks
- 2024.11, 57th ASA Conference at Golden Coast, Astralia.
- 2024.09, 14th ISAIA Conference at Kyoto, Japan (Best Report).
- 2024.07, 2024 IACP Conference at Hangzhou, China.
- 2023.10, 2023 Future Cities Conference at Zurich, Switerland.
💻 Internships
- 2022.12 - 2025.09, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore.
- 2022.12 - 2025.09, City University of Macau, China.
- 2019.09 - 2022.12, Chiba University, Japan.
- 2021.01 - 2021.06, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 2019.06 - 2019.09, North Carolina State University, United States.
- 2018.09 - 2018.10, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
- 2018.06 - 2018.08, University of Bucharest, Romania.
- 2017.07 - 2017.08, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
