Honglin He

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I am a first-year PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, advised by Bolei Zhou in the Vision and Autonomy Intelligence Lab (VAIL).

I obtained my Master (2021.09 - 2024.06) at the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, advised by Professor Yi Zhang and Shuo Feng. Before that, I received my B.Eng (2017.09 - 2021.06) at the Department of Automation, Xiamen University.

My research focuses on Embodied AI, Urban Simulation, and Robot Navigation, with emphasis on building scalable simulation platforms and learning-based navigation policies for autonomous micromobility.

News

Apr 02, 2026

Selected Publications

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    Learning Sidewalk Autopilot from Multi-Scale Imitation with Corrective Behavior Expansion
    Honglin He, Yukai Ma, Brad Squicciarini, and 2 more authors
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2026
    ICRA 2026
    PDF Website
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    AURA: Multi-modal Shared Autonomy for Urban Navigation
    Yukai Ma, Honglin He, Selina Song, and 2 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2026
    CVPR 2026
    PDF Website
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    From seeing to experiencing: Scaling navigation foundation models with reinforcement learning
    Honglin He*, Yukai Ma*, Brad Squicciarini, and 2 more authors
    In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026
    ICLR 2026
    PDF Website
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    UrbanVerse: Scaling Urban Simulation by Watching City-Tour Videos
    Mingxuan Liu*, Honglin He*, Elisa Ricci, and 2 more authors
    In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026
    ICLR 2026
    PDF Website
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    Towards Autonomous Micromobility through Scalable Urban Simulation
    Wayne Wu*, Honglin He*, Todd Zhang, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Highlight), 2025
    CVPR 2025
    PDF Website
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    MetaUrban: An Embodied AI Simulation Platform for Urban Micromobility
    Wayne Wu*, Honglin He*, Jack He, and 5 more authors
    International Conference on Learning Representations (Spotlight), 2025
    ICLR 2025
    PDF Website
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    Orthoplanes: A novel representation for better 3d-awareness of gans
    Honglin He*, Zhuoqian Yang*, Shikai Li, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2023
    ICCV 2023
    PDF Website
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    DNA-Rendering: A Diverse Neural Actor Repository for High-Fidelity Human-centric Rendering
    Wei Cheng, Ruixiang Chen, Wanqi Yin, and 8 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2023
    ICCV 2023
    PDF Website