Honglin He

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

Jun 12, 2026

Selected Publications

FlowPilot

From Imitation to Alignment: Human-Preference Flow Policies for Long-Horizon Sidewalk Navigation

Honglin He, Zhizheng Liu, Yukai Ma, and Bolei Zhou

arXiv preprint, 2026

Arxiv 2026

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MIMIC

Learning Sidewalk Autopilot from Multi-Scale Imitation with Corrective Behavior Expansion

Honglin He, Yukai Ma, Brad Squicciarini, Wayne Wu, and Bolei Zhou

In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2026

ICRA 2026

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S2E

From seeing to experiencing: Scaling navigation foundation models with reinforcement learning

Honglin He^*, Yukai Ma^*, Brad Squicciarini, Wayne Wu, and Bolei Zhou

In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026

ICLR 2026

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UrbanVerse

UrbanVerse: Scaling Urban Simulation by Watching City-Tour Videos

Mingxuan Liu^*, Honglin He^*, Elisa Ricci, Wayne Wu, and Bolei Zhou

In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026

ICLR 2026

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UrbanSim

Towards Autonomous Micromobility through Scalable Urban Simulation

Wayne Wu^*, Honglin He^*, Todd Zhang, Jack He, Ran Gong, Quanyi Li, and Bolei Zhou

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (Highlight), 2025

CVPR 2025 Highlight

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MetaUrban

MetaUrban: An Embodied AI Simulation Platform for Urban Micromobility

Wayne Wu^*, Honglin He^*, Jack He, Yiran Wang, Chenda Duan, Zhizheng Liu, Quanyi Li, and Bolei Zhou

International Conference on Learning Representations (Spotlight), 2025

ICLR 2025 Spotlight

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OP3D

Orthoplanes: A novel representation for better 3d-awareness of gans

Honglin He^*, Zhuoqian Yang^*, Shikai Li, Bo Dai, and Wayne Wu

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2023

ICCV 2023

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DNA-Rendering

DNA-Rendering: A Diverse Neural Actor Repository for High-Fidelity Human-centric Rendering

Wei Cheng, Ruixiang Chen, Wanqi Yin, Siming Fan, Keyu Chen, Honglin He, Huiwen Luo, Zhongang Cai, Jingbo Wang, Yang Gao, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2023

ICCV 2023

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