Qianzhong Chen
Position: Graduate Student
Focus: Foundation Model, RL, VLA
Bio:
Qianzhong Chen is a PhD student in Aero-Astro Department at Stanford University, advised by Prof. Mac Schwager. He received his B.S. from both Zhejiang University (ZJU) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2023. He received his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2025. Qianzhong’s current research interests include Vision-Language-Action models,data curation and reward modeling for manipulation, and world models. By leveraging embodied foundation models, he aims to develop general-purpose robots that can serve people.