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Zhiheng Li

I am currently an Applied Scientist Intern on the Navigation team at Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR), working with Prof. Chen Feng. I received my M.S. in ECE from Carnegie Mellon University, where I worked on vision-language robot perception at the AirLab, and my B.S. in ECE with a CS minor from NYU Tandon, where I worked with Prof. Chen Feng at the AI4CE Lab and with Dr. Shuo Chen on neuroscience. My current research focuses on robot perception, mapping, and navigation.

2024 – 2026Carnegie Mellon University — M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
2020 – 2024New York University — B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering, CS minor, Magna Cum Laude
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Experience

Applied Scientist Intern Jun 2026 – Present
Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) · Navigation team, supervised by Prof. Chen Feng

Research on robot perception and navigation.

Graduate Research Assistant Mar 2025 – May 2026
AirLab, CMU Robotics Institute

Built the VLM query pipeline for visual-language-action experiments and LLM-based instance-level object queries over scene graphs (SuperMap).

Computer Vision Perception Intern Aug – Dec 2024
May Mobility · Perception team, Ann Arbor, MI

Built a progression/regression testing toolkit for the on-vehicle traffic-light detection pipeline; AV image data collection, annotation and label QA.

Computer Vision Algorithm Intern Jun – Sep 2023
LinkedCare · Algorithm Department, Shanghai

Automated retainer-mesh processing for 3D printing (30 s manual → 2 s per model); 2D/3D segmentation models that made CBCT-to-panoramic conversion 90% faster.

Research Assistant Jul 2022 – Present
AI4CE Lab, NYU Tandon · Advised by Prof. Chen Feng

Built the MARS autonomous-driving dataset with May Mobility; multi-session LiDAR SLAM (Chain-SLAM); VLM fine-tuning for pose estimation; 3D Gaussian splatting.

Engineering & Neuroscience Research Assistant Aug 2022 – Jan 2025
Wisniewski and Masurkar Labs, NYU Langone Health · Department of Neurology

Closed-loop animal-behavior rig (C, MATLAB, Bonsai, DeepLabCut); Plexon neural data acquisition and LFP / behavior analysis.

Publications

Robotics & Computer Vision

Chain-SLAM: Globally Consistent Backend for Multi-Session LiDAR SLAM via Chained Loop Closure
Chain-SLAM: Globally Consistent Backend for Multi-Session LiDAR SLAM via Chained Loop Closure
Zhiheng Li, Xinhao Liu, Juexiao Zhang, Yongqing Liang, Chen Feng
IROS 2026 arXiv Code Project
MindBlock
MindBlock: Probing Spatial Assembly and Structure in Unified Multimodal Models
Baiqiao Yin, Junhao Liu, Han Yin, Heyang Yu, Tingxuan Zhang, Zhiheng Li, Chengzu Li, Jihan Yang, Manling Li, Chen Feng, Yiming Li
ECCV 2026 Paper OpenReview
SuperMap: A Spatio-Temporal SLAM System for Visual-Language Navigation
SuperMap: A Spatio-Temporal SLAM System for Visual-Language Navigation
Shibo Zhao, Guofei Chen, Honghao Zhu, Zhiheng Li, Changwei Yao, Nader Zantout, Seungchan Kim, Wenshan Wang, Ji Zhang, Sebastian Scherer
RSS 2026 arXiv Project
Multiagent Multitraversal Multimodal Self-Driving: Open MARS Dataset
Multiagent Multitraversal Multimodal Self-Driving: Open MARS Dataset
Yiming Li, Zhiheng Li, Nuo Chen, Moonjun Gong, Zonglin Lyu, Zehong Wang, Peili Jiang, Chen Feng
CVPR 2024 Paper arXiv Code Project
SSCBench: A Large-Scale 3D Semantic Scene Completion Benchmark for Autonomous Driving
SSCBench: A Large-Scale 3D Semantic Scene Completion Benchmark for Autonomous Driving
Yiming Li, Sihang Li, Xinhao Liu, Moonjun Gong, Kenan Li, Nuo Chen, Zijun Wang, Zhiheng Li, Tao Jiang, Fisher Yu, Yue Wang, Hang Zhao, Zhiding Yu, Chen Feng
IROS 2024 arXiv Code

Neuroscience & Health

Alzheimer's & Dementia
Acute Aβ12-28P administration targeting apoE/Aβ interaction rescues synaptic function and cognitive decline in advanced-stage Alzheimer's disease
Shuo Chen, Nikolas Lam, Zhiheng Li, Ding Wang, Pengfu Liu, Victoria Berbano, Yu Xie, Tyra Nguyen, Yvonne Xu, John Yang, Karen Ha, Leonardo Semana, Rachel Dias, Arjun V. Masurkar, Thomas Wisniewski
Alzheimer's & Dementia 2025 Paper
Neuroscience 2023
Hypothalamic Theta Modulation Improves Memory
S. Chen, L. He, S.J. Middleton, N. Lam, Z. Li, Y. Xie, J. Tang, T. Nguyen, V. Berbano, A. Masurkar, T.M. Wisniewski, Z.S. Chen, T. McHugh
SfN 2023 · Poster PSTR501.03
ICU Re-admission
Early Prediction of 30-day ICU Re-admissions Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
Zhiheng Li, Xinyue Xing, Bingzhang Lu, Zhixiang Li
arXiv 2019 arXiv PDF