About Me

I am currently a Specially Appointed Associate Professor at the Innovation School of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei University of Technology. Prior to this, I received my Ph.D. (through a combined Master’s and Ph.D. program) from the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Central South University, under the supervision of Prof. Jianxin Wang and Assoc. Prof. Ping Zhong.
My research primarily focuses on Embodied AI, Robotics, Multi-modal Perception and Fusion, and Path Planning and Decision Making. As the first or corresponding author, I have published over 20 academic papers in journals and conferences, including IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TCSVT, ACM TITS, IEEE RAL, ACM MM, AAAI, IJCAI, and ICRA. Furthermore, I have led or participated in more than 10 scientific research projects. I also serve as an active reviewer for prestigious journals including IEEE TRO, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TIM, and IEEE RAL, as well as top international conferences such as NeurIPS, CVPR, AAAI, ACM MM, ICRA, and IROS.

我现在是合肥工业大学人工智能创新学院的特任副教授。在此之前，我硕博连读毕业于中南大学计算机学院，师从王建新教授和钟萍副教授。我一直从事具身智能、机器人、多模态感知与融合、路径规划与决策领域的科学研究，以第一/通讯作者在IEEE TNNLS、IEEE TCSVT、ACM TITS、IEEE RAL、ACM MM、AAAI、IJCAI、ICRA等期刊和会议上累计发表学术论文20余篇，授权发明专利4项。我主持/参与了10余项科研项目，担任IEEE TRO、IEEE TCSVT、IEEE TIM、IEEE RAL等高水平期刊和NeurIPS、CVPR、AAAI、ACM MM、ICRA、IROS等国际会议审稿人。

News

[2026.06] I have earned my Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Central South University. I would like to thank my advisor and my family .
[2026.05] One paper has been accepted by the IJCAI conference. Congratulations to Liu Liangbai and Wu Tao .
[2026.01] Two papers have been accepted by the IEEE ICRA conference. Thanks to the co-authors .

Contact Information

boleichen0326@163.com

Research Interests

Embodied AI; Visual Semantic Navigation; Mobile Manipulation; Multi-modal Perception and Fusion

Selected Paper Publications

^ indicates joint first authors, # indicates the corresponding author

[16] Title: Spatially Generalizable Mobile Manipulation via Adaptive Experience Selection and Dynamic Imagination,
Authors: Ping Zhong, Liangbai Liu, Bolei Chen#, Tao Wu, Jiazhi Xia, Chaoxu Mu, Jianxin Wang,
Proc: Proceedings of the 35th International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2026, (CCF-B & CAAI-A, Oral)

[15] Title: Awaken Memories with Words: Recursive Visual Imagination and Adaptive Linguistic Grounding for Vision Language Navigation,
Authors: Bolei Chen, Jiaxu Kang, Yifei Wang, Ping Zhong, Jianxin Wang,
Proc: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026, (CCF-B & CAAI-A).

[14] Title: LeGO-MM: Learning Navigation for Goal-Oriented Mobile Manipulation via Hierarchical Policy Distillation,
Authors: Bolei Chen, Liangbai Liu, Shengsheng Yan, Haonan Yang, Ping Zhong, and Jianxin Wang,
Proc: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026, (CCF-B & CAAI-A).

[13] Title: Perspective from a Broader Context: Can Room Style Knowledge Help Visual Floorplan Localization?,
Authors: Bolei Chen, Shengsheng Yan, Yongzheng Cui, Jiaxu Kang, Ping Zhong, Jianxin Wang,
Proc: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026, 40(4): 2787-2795, (CCF-A, Oral).

[12] Title: Towards Ultrasound-based Reliable Disease Diagnosis Using Causal Inference,
Authors: Bolei Chen, Jiaxu Kang, Haonan Yang, Ping Zhong, Yixiong Liang, Rui Fan, Jiaxin Wang,
Proc: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026, 40(4): 2778-2786, (CCF-A)

[11] Title: Treasure Hunting: Embodied Contrastive Learning Enhanced Coarse-to-Fine Object Seeking with Explorer and Discriminator Cooperation,
Authors: Bolei Chen, Jiaxu Kang, Haonan Yang, Ping Zhong, Rui Fan, Jianxin Wang,
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2026, 37(3): 1092-1106, (JCR Q1, IF: 8.9, CCF-B, CAAI-A).

[10] Title: Perspective from a Higher Dimension: Can 3D Geometric Priors Help Visual Floorplan Localization?,
Authors: Bolei Chen, Jiaxu Kang, Haonan Yang, Ping Zhong, Jianxin Wang,
Proc: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2025: 7181-7190, (CCF-A, Oral).

[9] Title: Embodied contrastive learning with geometric consistency and behavioral awareness for object navigation,
Authors: Bolei Chen, Jiaxu Kang, Ping Zhong, Yixiong Liang, Yu Sheng, Jianxin Wang,
Proc: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2024: 4776-4785, (CCF-A).

[8] Title: HSPNav: Hierarchical Scene Prior Learning for Visual Semantic Navigation Towards Real Settings,
Authors: Jiaxu Kang^, Bolei Chen^, Ping Zhong, Haonan Yang, Yu Sheng, Jianxin Wang,
Proc: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024: 9434-9440, (CCF-B & CAAI-A, Oral).

[7] Title: Socially Aware Object Goal Navigation with Heterogeneous Scene Representation Learning,
Authors: Bolei Chen, Haina Zhu, Shengkang Yao, Siyi Lu, Ping Zhong, Yu Sheng, Jianxin Wang,
Journal: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024, 9(8): 6792-6799, (JCR Q1, IF: 5.3).

[6] Title: 面向具身人工智能的物体目标导航综述,
Authors: 陈铂垒，康嘉绪，钟萍，崔永正，卢思怡，杨昊楠，王建新,
Journal: 软件学报, 2024, 36(4): 1715-1757, (CCF-A类中文期刊).

[5] Title: SemNav-HRO: A target-driven semantic navigation strategy with human–robot–object ternary fusion,
Authors: Bolei Chen, Siyi Lu, Ping Zhong, Yongzheng Cui, Yixiong Liang, Jianxin Wang,
Journal: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2024, 127: 107370, (JCR Q1, IF: 8.0).

[4] Title: Emexplorer: an episodic memory enhanced autonomous exploration strategy with voronoi domain conversion and invalid action masking,
Authors: Bolei Chen, Ping Zhong, Yongzheng Cui, Siyi Lu, Yixiong Liang, Yu Sheng,
Journal: Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2023, 9(6): 7365-7379, (JCR Q2, IF：4.6).

[3] Title: Think Holistically, Act Down-to-Earth: A Semantic Navigation Strategy with Continuous Environmental Representation and Multi-step Forward Planning,
Authors: Bolei Chen, Jiaxu Kang, Ping Zhong, Yongzheng Cui, Siyi Lu, Yixiong Liang, Jianxin Wang,
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2023, 34(5): 3860-3875, (JCR Q1, IF: 11.1, CCF-B).

[2] Title: STExplorer: A Hierarchical Autonomous Exploration Strategy with Spatio-Temporal Awareness for Aerial Robots,
Authors: Bolei Chen, Yongzheng Cui, Ping Zhong, Wang Yang, Yixiong Liang, Jianxin Wang,
Journal: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2023, 14(6): 1-24, (JCR Q1, IF: 6.6, CAAI-B).

[1] Title: Information-driven fast marching autonomous exploration with aerial robots,
Authors: Ping Zhong, Bolei Chen#, Siyi Lu, Xiaoxi Meng, Yixiong Liang,
Journal: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021, 7(2): 810-817, (JCR Q1, IF: 5.3).

Major Awards & Honors

[5] June 2026: Hunan Provincial Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate, Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate of Central South University;
[4] November 2025: AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) 2026 Scholarship;
[3] September 2025: Central South University President’s Top-Tier Scholarship (30 recipients university-wide);
[2] September 2024: National Scholarship for Doctoral Students (Ranked No. 1 in the School of Computer Science and Engineering);
[1] September 2017: National Scholarship for Undergraduates.

Peer Review Services

Journal: IEEE TRO, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TIM, IEEE RAL, Autonomous Robots, ESWA, Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, etc.
Conference: NeurIPS, CVPR, AAAI, ACM MM, ICRA, IROS, etc.