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General Information

Full Name Shengzhe GAN
Email shengzhegan04@gmail.com
Socials github.com/Lgx521

Education

  • 2023-2027 (Expected)
    Bachelor's Degree in Information Engineering (Electronic and Electrical Engineering)
    Southern University of Science and Technology
    • GPA: 3.91/4.0
    • Ranking: 2/46
    • Enrolled in Advanced Honors Program of Dept. of EEE. (Wo'loong Class)
    • Major Coursework
      • Robotics Motion and Control
      • Robotics Perception and Intelligence
      • Digital Signal Processing
      • Signals and Systems
      • Analog Circuits
      • Digital Circuits
      • Engineering Mathematics
      • Probability and Statistics
      • General Physics
      • Calculus
      • Linear Algebra

Publications

  • 2025
    AREA3D: Active Reconstruction Agent with Unified Feed-Forward 3D Perception and Vision-Language Guidance
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.05131
    • Authors: Tianling Xu, Shengzhe Gan, Leslie Gu, Yuelei Li, Fangneng Zhan, Hanspeter Pfister.

Research Experience

  • Sep 2025 - Dec 2025
    Remote Research Intern
    Visual Computing Group, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    • Advisor: Dr. Fangneng Zhan
    • AREA3D Framework Development: Developed an active reconstruction agent that unifies feed-forward geometric confidence with VLM-based semantic guidance to resolve occlusions and ambiguities.
    • SOTA Baseline Benchmarking: Reproduced and optimized complex baselines including FisherRF and Air-Embodied.
    • 3DGS Experimental Validation: Conducted large-scale 3D Gaussian Splatting experiments on Replica and OmniObject3D datasets, achieving SOTA PSNR/SSIM.
    • Active Perception Strategy: Implemented 'Dual-Field' uncertainty fusion using Monte Carlo ray sampling and frustum-based decay.
  • Jul 2025 - Sep 2025
    On-Site Research Assistant
    ROAR Lab, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
    • Advisor: Prof. Mengxue Hou
    • Robotics System Engineering: Architected a complete grasping system (YOLO, SAM, GraspNet) within a ROS2 framework to achieve autonomous manipulation on a Kinova Gen3 arm.
    • Novel 3D Representation for Grasping: Enhanced 3D Gaussian Splatting by embedding a 'graspness' metric into primitives to guide next-best-view selection.
    • Advanced Perception Research: Prototyped models with PointNet++ and Point Transformers to learn continuous Signed Distance Fields (SDFs) from partial point clouds.
  • Mar 2025 - Present
    Undergraduate Researcher
    Robotics and Computer Vision Lab, SUSTech, Shenzhen, China
    • Topic: Reflection Awareness in SLAM system
    • Advisor: Prof. Hong Zhang
    • Multi-Modal SLAM Fusion: Augmented Fast-LIO with a vision-based module to detect mirrors and filter reflective LiDAR points via 3D-to-2D projection.
    • Real-Time Point Cloud Filtering: Developing a real-time ROS node to filter reflective artifacts from LiDAR scans.
    • Quantitative Validation: Benchmarked the enhanced SLAM system against baselines, validating improved trajectory accuracy and map quality.

Projects

  • Apr 2025 - Jun 2025
    Chinese Chess HCI Robot
    Course: Robotics Motion and Control
    • Full System Integration: Engineered an end-to-end chess robot in ROS with KINOVA Gen3 Lite arm and RealSense camera.
    • Computer Vision & AI: Deployed custom-trained YOLOv8s for real-time piece recognition.
    • Robotic Motion Planning: Implemented custom optimization-based IK solver and cubic polynomial trajectory planner for positional errors under 10^-5m.
  • Mar 2025 - Jun 2025
    Autonomatic SLAM Mobile Robot
    Course: Digital Circuits Experiment
    • Wireless Communication: Developed wireless TCP/IP bridge using ESP32 to stream sensor data to ROS.
    • LiDAR & Odometry Fusion SLAM: Deployed Hector SLAM for real-time 2D mapping fusing LiDAR and odometry.
    • ROS Data Pipeline: Engineered data pipeline to parse sensor streams into standard topics (/scan, /tf, /odom).

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    • First Class of the Merit Student Scholarship (Academic Year 2024-2025)
    • Honorary Title of Outstanding Student
    • Mathematical Competition in Modeling (MCM) - Meritorious Winner
  • 2024
    • First Class of the Merit Student Scholarship (Academic Year 2023-2024)
    • Honorary Title of Outstanding Student
    • First Prize of the China Undergraduate Physics Tournament (CUPT)
    • Enrolled by Advanced Honor Program (Top 9 students in Dept. EEE)