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Yunze Man 「满运泽」

Research Scientist at NVIDIA GEAR. PhD from UIUC. Solid experience in AI agents, embodied AI, VLM post-training. PhD research supported by NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship.

Research interests lie at the intersection of vision, robotics, and machine learning. I develop vision-centric large multimodal models, and embodied agentic AI. I am interested in AI agents that interact with digital and physical worlds.

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News

  • [06/2026]    Defended my PhD thesis “Visually Grounded Multimodal Models for Spatial Intelligence”!
  • [05/2026]    Joined NVIDIA GEAR as a Research Scientist.
  • [03/2026]    Gave a Lightning Talk on LocateAnything3D at NVIDIA GTC 2026.
  • [02/2026]    LocateAnything3D and Fast-ThinkAct accepted to CVPR 2026; Capturing accepted to ICLR 2026.
  • [08/2025]    Started internship at NVIDIA GEAR. Excited to work on Generalist Robotics!
  • [12/2024]    Received the NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship 2025.
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Selected Publications

Please refer to my Google Scholar profile for the full list of publications.

(* indicates equal contribution)
Vesta
Vesta: A Generalist Embodied Reasoning Model
Johan Bjorck*, Zhiqi Li*, Yunze Man*, Jing Wang*, An-Chieh Cheng, Sifei Liu, Shihao Wang, Zhiding Yu, et al.
Tech Report / Paper / Project
LocateAnything
LocateAnything: Fast and High-Quality Vision-Language Grounding with Parallel Box Decoding
Shihao Wang, Shilong Liu, Yuanguo Kuang, Xinyu Wei, Yangzhou Liu, Zhiqi Li, Yunze Man, Guo Chen, Andrew Tao, Guilin Liu, Jan Kautz, Lei Zhang, Zhiding Yu
fast-thinkact
Fast-ThinkAct: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Verbalizable Latent Planning
Chi-Pin Huang, Yunze Man, Zhiding Yu, Min-Hung Chen, Jan Kautz, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Fu-En Yang
locateanything3d
LocateAnything3D: Vision-Language 3D Detection with Chain-of-Sight
Yunze Man, Shihao Wang, Guowen Zhang, Johan Bjorck, Zhiqi Li, Liang-Yan Gui, Jim Fan, Jan Kautz, Yu-Xiong Wang, Zhiding Yu
capturing
Capturing Visual Environment Structure Correlates with Control Performance
Jiahua Dong, Yunze Man, Pavel Tokmakov, Yu-Xiong Wang
gr00t
GR00T N1.6: An Improved Open Foundation Model for Generalist Humanoid Robots
GR00T Team
argus
Argus: Vision-Centric Reasoning with Grounded Chain-of-Thought
Yunze Man, De-An Huang, Guilin Liu, Shiwei Sheng, Shilong Liu, Liangyan Gui, Jan Kautz, Yu-Xiong Wang, Zhiding Yu
RandAR
RandAR: Decoder-only Autoregressive Visual Generation in Random Orders
Ziqi Pang*, Tianyuan Zhang*, Fujun Luan, Yunze Man, Hao Tan, Kai Zhang, William T. Freeman, Yu-Xiong Wang
Oral presentation
org
Floating No More: Object-Ground Reconstruction from a Single Image
Yunze Man, Yichen Sheng, Jianming Zhang, Liang-Yan Gui, Yu-Xiong Wang
Lexicon3D
Lexicon3D: Probing Visual Foundation Models for Complex 3D Scene Reasoning
Yunze Man, Shuhong Zheng, Zhipeng Bao, Martial Hebert, Liang-Yan Gui, Yu-Xiong Wang
Lexicon3D
SceneCraft: Layout-Guided 3D Scene Generation
Xiuyu Yang*, Yunze Man*, Junkun Chen, Yu-Xiong Wang
LM4Vision
LLM4Vision: Frozen Transformers from Language Models are Effective Visual Encoder Layers
Ziqi Pang, Ziyang Xie*, Yunze Man*, Yu-Xiong Wang
Spotlight presentation
situation3d
SituationVLM: Situational Awareness Matters in 3D Vision Language Reasoning
Yunze Man, Liang-Yan Gui, Yu-Xiong Wang

Industry Experience

  • [05/2026 ~ Present], NVIDIA Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR), Research Scientist
  • [12/2024 ~ 03/2026], OpenAGI Foundation, Founding Researcher
  • [08/2025 ~ 03/2026], NVIDIA Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR), Research Scientist Intern
  • [05/2024 ~ 12/2024], NVIDIA Learning and Perception Research, Research Scientist Intern
  • [05/2022 ~ 08/2022], Adobe Research, Research Scientist Intern

Professional Service

  • Reviewer for CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, IROS, ICRA, TMLR, WACV
                2021 - 2026
  • Teaching Assisant
    • Learining to Learn (CS598), UIUC
      Fall 2022

    • Efficient & Predictive Vision (CS598), UIUC
      Spring 2022

    • Machine Learning (CS446), UIUC
      Fall 2021

    • Computer Vision Capstone (16-621), CMU
      Spring 2020, 2021

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