Ziyue Darcy Zheng
Baltimore, Maryland

Ziyue (Darcy) Zheng

Master's student
Johns Hopkins University

Robotics · Perception · Learning

Hi! I'm a Master's student in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, working on robotics and perception.

Before joining Johns Hopkins, I received my B.S. in Optoelectronic Information Science and Engineering from East China Normal University in 2024.

Research interests

My research focuses on active perception and robot learning, with an emphasis on decision-making under partial observability. I study how robots can acquire task-relevant information and use it to guide perception, planning, and action.

I am currently working on projects involving vision-language-action (VLA) models, exploring how active perception can improve robotic manipulation.

News

  1. Our paper Ergodic Trajectory Planning With Dynamic Sensor Footprints is now available in IEEE Transactions on Robotics Early Access.

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  2. We released TRACE, our work on trajectory-level ergodic planning for active scene reconstruction.

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Publications

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* Equal contribution. 10 citations on Google Scholar. Updated Sep 06, 2026.