Mingtong Zhang

alexmzhang [at] princeton [dot] edu


I am a PhD student advised by Dhruv Shah at Princeton University.

I am building generalist robots in the real world.

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News
  • Dec. 2025: New paper on scaling up policy evaluation. Check out PolaRiS.
  • May. 2025: Spending the summer as a research intern at TRI, Palo Alto, CA.
  • Jan. 2025: Talk at Peking University. Meet old and new friends!
Research
PolaRiS: Scalable Real-to-Sim Evaluations for Generalist Robot Policies
Arhan Jain*, Mingtong Zhang* , Kanav Arora, William Chen, Marcel Torne, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Sergey Zakharov, Yue Wang, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Wei-Chiu Ma, Dhruv Shah, Abhishek Gupta†, Karl Pertsch†

[Website] [Paper] [Code]
Dynamic 3D Gaussian Tracking for Graph-Based Neural Dynamics Modeling
Mingtong Zhang* , Kaifeng Zhang*, Yunzhu Li
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024
[Website] [Paper] [Code] [Demo]
D3Fields: Dynamic 3D Descriptor Fields for Zero-Shot Generalizable Rearrangement
Yixuan Wang*, Mingtong Zhang* , Zhuoran Li*, Tarik Kelestemur, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Jiajun Wu, Li Fei-Fei, Yunzhu Li
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024
Oral
[Website] [Paper] [Code]
KUDA: Keypoints to Unify Dynamics Learning and Visual Prompting for Open-Vocabulary Robotic Manipulation
Zixian Liu*, Mingtong Zhang* , Yunzhu Li
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024 @ LangRob Spotlight
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
[Website] [Paper] [Code]
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models
Open X-Embodiment Collaboration
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
Best Paper Award
[Project] [Paper] [Blogpost] [Code] [Data]
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