Hi, I’m Juntu Zhao
Ph.D. Student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, researching Artificial Intelligence.
About
I am Juntu Zhao (赵峻图, Figure Zhao), a Ph.D. student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), researching Artificial Intelligence, advised by Dequan Wang. My research focuses on Embodied Intelligence (especially Vision-Language-Action Models) and multimodal LLMs.
Since June 2025, I've been a research intern at Spirit AI, team of Spirit VLA, working with Yang Gao.
I graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Artificial Intelligence Excellent Talents Pilot Class at SJTU. I was an outstanding graduate of SJTU and started pursuing Ph.D. at SJTU (Department of Computer Science) in September 2023.
🔥 News
Spirit-v1.5
🚀 Spirit-v1.5 was released! Check how we achieved SoTA on RoboChallenge Table30 benchmark: Blog.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
B.S. in Artificial Intelligence
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Papers
Learning Native Continuation for Action Chunking Flow Policies
Yufeng Liu, Hang Yu, Juntu Zhao, Bocheng Li, Di Zhang, Mingzhu Li, Wenxuan Wu, Yingdong Hu, Junyuan Xie, Junliang Guo, Dequan Wang and Yang Gao
RSS 2026
Saying the Unsaid: Revealing the Hidden Language of Multimodal Systems Through Test-Time Telephone Games
Juntu Zhao, Jialing Zhang, Chongxuan Li and Dequan Wang
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop MTI-LLM
Do You Need Proprioceptive States in Visuomotor Policies?
Juntu Zhao, Wenbo Lu, Di Zhang, Yufeng Liu, Yushen Liang, Tianluo Zhang, Yifeng Cao, Junyuan Xie, Yingdong Hu, Shengjie Wang, Junliang Guo, Dequan Wang and Yang Gao
arXiv preprint 2509.18644
Lost in Translation: Latent Concept Misalignment in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Juntu Zhao, Junyu Deng, Yixin Ye, Chongxuan Li, Zhijie Deng and Dequan Wang
ECCV 2024
Internships
Spirit AI
Team of Spirit VLA
• The first policy (Spirit-v1.5) beating π0.5 on RoboChallenge, Core Contributions
• Outstanding Intern Award, 2025
Athlete
I'm the captain, assistant coach, and sprint team leader of the SJTU Track-and-Field Team. I am the record holder of the men's 100 m race and 4×100 m relay at SJTU. I won the bronze medal in the men's 100 m race at the 2024 Shanghai Student Games (University Track), and the golden medal in the men's 4×100 m relay at the 2025 Shanghai University Athletics League Cup. Go to bilibili for my ShowTime!