Yuhao Zhang

PhD Student, Oxford Robotics Institute

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I am a PhD (DPhil) student in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, started in 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Maurice Fallon. My research interests lie in mobile robotics and spatial AI, with a focus on developing multi-session semantic visual SLAM methods using 360° cameras to enable long-term robotic autonomy.

Previously, I completed an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science at the University of Cambridge (2024/25). For my master’s thesis, I worked on multi-robot trajectory planning with denoising optimization and was fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Amanda Prorok, Dr. Keisuke Okumura, and Dr. Ajay Shankar. Prior to that, I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Manchester (2021/24), where I began my research experience in Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with support from Prof. Mikel Luján and Mihai Bujanca.

News

Feb 03, 2026 🏆 We are launching a new SLAM challenge on 360° cameras, together with Hilti and Trimble.
Jun 16, 2025 🎉 Two papers are accepted by IROS’25.
Jun 30, 2024 🎉 My first paper is accepted by IROS’24.

Selected Publications

  1. IROS 2025
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    D4orm: Multi-Robot Trajectories with Dynamics-aware Diffusion Denoised Deformations
    Yuhao Zhang, Keisuke Okumura, Heedo Woo, Ajay Shankar, and Amanda Prorok
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
  2. IROS 2025
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    NGD-SLAM: Towards Real-Time Dynamic SLAM without GPU
    Yuhao Zhang, Mihai Bujanca, and Mikel Luján
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
  3. IROS 2024
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    A Framework for Reproducible Benchmarking and Performance Diagnosis of SLAM Systems
    Nikola Radulov*, Yuhao Zhang*, Mihai Bujanca, Ruiqi Ye, and Mikel Luján
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024