About Me

I am a CIS PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. I am conducting research under the supervision of Prof. Kostas Daniilidis and cooperating with other faculty. I obtained my master’s degree in robotics from UPenn. I graduated from Zhejiang University CS major in 2023 and participated in several research projects of Prof. Xiaowei Zhou. Then before that, I graduated from Hangzhou No.2 High School in 2019.


Research

OmniGuide: Universal Guidance Fields for Enhancing Generalist Robot Policies

Yunzhou Song*, Long Le*, Yong-Hyun Park, Jie Wang, Junyao Shi, Lingjie Liu, Jiatao Gu, Eric Eaton, Dinesh Jayaraman, Kostas Daniilidis
Project Page Paper
Scalable test-time guidance for generalist(VLA) robot policies leveraging foundational knowledges.


HDGS: Textured 2D Gaussian Splatting for Enhanced Scene Rendering

Yunzhou Song*, Heguang Lin*, Jiahui Lei, Lingjie Liu, Kostas Daniilidis
Project Page
The precise geometric design benefits not only geometric tasks, but also various visual tasks like detail preservation and anti-aliasing.


Track Everything Everywhere Fast and Robustly

Yunzhou Song*, Jiahui Lei*, Ziyun Wang, Lingjie Liu, Kostas Daniilidis
ECCV 2024 Project Page Paper
Spatially factorize the homeomorphism deform field by depth prior, leverage foundational features for long-term tracking.


Perceiving unseen 3D objects by poking the objects

Linghao Chen, Yunzhou Song, Hujun Bao, Xiaowei Zhou
ICRA 2023 Code Paper
Robot-in-the-loop 3D perception.



Engineering Projects

Reimplementation of 2D Gaussian Splatting

Yunzhou Song, Zixuan Lin, Yexin Zhang
Project Page Document
Done before official implementation.



Experience

ML intern @ Apple Maps, 25 summer

Teaching

CIS5800 Teaching Assistant, 24 spring

Education

2019-2023 B.E. in Computer Science, Zhejiang University

2023-2025 M.S. in Robotics, University of Pennsylvania

2025-present CIS PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Misc

I have been playing piano for 20 years. I joined a campus band in my bachelor’s senior year. I am studying to play the trumpet.