I am currently a Research Engineer at Li Auto. I received my master’s degree in Robotics from ETH Zürich and my bachelor’s degree from Tongji University. My research focuses on interactive and physically accurate world model for Autonomous Driving and Embodied AI.

Publications

Tech Report

ME-Brain-1.0: Memory, Cognition and Action for Evolving Embodied Intelligence

Foundation Model, Li Auto Inc.

Technical Report, 2026

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ECCV

StreetForward: Perceiving Dynamic Street with Feedforward Causal Attention

Zhongrui Yu, Zhao Wang, Yijia Xie, Yida Wang, Xueyang Zhang, Yifei Zhan, Kun Zhan

ECCV 2026

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CVPR

Unboxed: Geometrically and Temporally Consistent Video Outpainting

Zhongrui Yu, Martina Megaro-Boldini, Robert W. Sumner, Abdelaziz Djelouah

CVPR 2025

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WACV

SGD: Street View Synthesis with Gaussian Splatting and Diffusion Prior

Zhongrui Yu, Haoran Wang, Jinze Yang, Hanzhang Wang, Jiale Cao, Zhong Ji, Mingming Sun

WACV 2025

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TOMM

FAST: Flexibly Controllable Arbitrary Style Transfer via Latent Diffusion Models

Hanzhang Wang, Haoran Wang, Zhongrui Yu, Mingming Sun, Junjun Jiang, Xianming Liu, Deming Zhai

TOMM 2025

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Experience

Li Auto—Research Engineer

04.2025 – Present

Disney Research|Studios—Research Intern

04.2024 – 03.2025

Advised by Dr. Abdelaziz Djelouah, Martina Megaro-Boldini, and Prof. Dr. Robert W. Sumner.

Baidu Research—Research Intern

09.2023 – 03.2024

Advised by Dr. Haoran Wang.

Autonomous Systems Lab, ETH Zürich—Research Assistant

03.2023 – 08.2023

Vision for Robotics Lab, ETH Zürich—Semester Project Student

10.2022 – 02.2023

Tongji Racing Team—Powertrain Team Member

2018 – 2019

Champion, 10th Formula Student China;  Third Place, 17th Formula SAE Japan.

Education

ETH Zürich—M.Sc. in Robotics, Systems and Control

2021 – 2024

Graduated with Distinction.

Tongji University—B.Sc. in Vehicle Engineering

2016 – 2021

Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai City;  Scholarship of Shanghai City.