Hi, I’m Juntu Zhao
Ph.D. Student in Artificial Intelligence at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
About
I am Juntu Zhao (赵峻图), a Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), advised by Dequan Wang. My research focuses on Embodied Intelligence (especially Vision-Language-Action Models) and multimodal LLMs.
Since June 2025, I've been a research intern at Spirit AI, team of Spirit VLA, working with Yang Gao.
I graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Artificial Intelligence Excellent Talents Pilot Class at SJTU. I was an outstanding graduate of SJTU and started pursuing Ph.D. at SJTU (Department of Computer Science) in September 2023.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
B.S. in Artificial Intelligence
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Papers
Saying the Unsaid: Revealing the Hidden Language of Multimodal Systems Through Test-Time Telephone Games
Juntu Zhao, Jialing Zhang, Chongxuan Li and Dequan Wang
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop MTI-LLM
Do You Need Proprioceptive States in Visuomotor Policies?
Juntu Zhao, Wenbo Lu, Di Zhang, Yufeng Liu, Yushen Liang, Tianluo Zhang, Yifeng Cao, Junyuan Xie, Yingdong Hu, Shengjie Wang, Junliang Guo, Dequan Wang and Yang Gao
arXiv preprint 2509.18644
Lost in Translation: Latent Concept Misalignment in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Juntu Zhao, Junyu Deng, Yixin Ye, Chongxuan Li, Zhijie Deng and Dequan Wang
ECCV 2024
Internships
Spirit AI
Team of Spirit VLA
• The first policy (Spirit-v1.5) beating π0.5 on RoboChallenge, Core Contributions
• Outstanding Intern Award, 2025