FUDAN UNIVERSITY · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Fanbo Zhao.

Hi, I’m Fanbo, a second-year AI student at Fudan University. I’m interested in embodied intelligence and how perception guides action.

Second-year undergraduate

Open to research & internship opportunities

From perception to action, in interaction with the world.01 / Research02 / Projects03 / Notes04 / About

CURRENT INTEREST / 01

Multimodal embodied navigation

How can vision, odor, and wind support autonomous navigation? I explore reinforcement learning, recurrent memory, and hierarchical control in simulated fly flight.

SmartFly aims to support visual obstacle navigation and vision–odor source seeking with a single policy. Full navigation performance remains under evaluation.

CURRENT INTEREST / 02

Biologically inspired visual representations

Comparing CNN and FlyVis visual encoders to investigate how visual priors relate to representations and behavior in embodied tasks.

The project includes shared-stimulus, trajectory-level probing, and closed-loop evaluation workflows. The full comparison across training seeds is still pending.

01 / 2026In progress
Six-panel SmartFly CNN–RNN stable-flight recording with external cameras, trajectory, actual eye inputs, height, and speed.
Recorded stable flight · A fixed-seed example, not a forest-navigation result.

SmartFly

Fly-inspired multimodal embodied navigation

A dual-task navigation framework in a MuJoCo fly simulation, combining visual obstacle navigation and vision–odor source seeking, with CNN–RNN and FlyVis–RNN encoder variants.

The project spans hierarchical PPO control, forest and dynamic odor environments, curriculum training, and representation analysis. CNN–RNN stabilization replays are available in both observation modes; the full navigation comparison is ongoing.

Embodied AIPPOMuJoCoPyTorchFlyVis
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04 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORK

Beyond the work

Room for learning. Room for living.

This is a home for my academic work and projects, and a personal space that will grow with me. Alongside technical work, I hope to share everyday observations and reflections.

More glimpses of everyday life to come.

Fanbo’s Psyduck avatar
PERSONAL ARCHIVE / 01Me, on the other side of the screen.
LET’S CONNECT

Good things start with a conversation.

Have a research or internship opportunity in mind, or simply want to talk about AI? I’d love to hear from you.