Hi there 👋. I am Xiangyue ZHANG (章湘粤), an incoming Ph.D. student in Mechano-Informatics at The University of Tokyo, supervised by Prof. Tatsuya Harada. I am supported by a full scholarship from The University of Tokyo Fellowship.
My research focuses on Embodied AI, 3D/2D motion generation, and world models, with a long-term interest in how intelligent agents perceive, move, and interact in physical environments.
Outside research, music is where I learn timing without equations. I sing for Xia Qian Yu (夏千嶼), an indie-rock band, and have performed at music festivals, bars, campus shows, and solo stages. Music keeps my research from becoming too mechanical: it asks me to listen before moving, to feel rhythm before explaining it, and to remember that expressive motion is something lived before it is modeled.
I am open to remote or on-site internship and visiting opportunities around embodied intelligence, motion generation, and human-centered AI systems.