SPACE Lab Nanyang Technological University Singapore

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
NTU Singapore

Nanyang Technological University Singapore

One team. Shared vision.

Faculty

Portrait of Wanhua Li

Wanhua Li

Nanyang Assistant Professor · NTU EEE

Wanhua Li is a Nanyang Assistant Professor at NTU and founded the SPACE Lab in September 2026. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, supervised by Prof. Hanspeter Pfister. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University in 2022, advised by Prof. Jiwen Lu, Prof. Jianjiang Feng, and Prof. Jie Zhou.

His research interests mainly include Spatial Intelligence, Neural Rendering, and Physical Intelligence. His long-term goal is to build visually intelligent systems that can perceive, reason about, and interact with the real world.

Research Fellows

Li-Jun Zhao

Research Interest: Continual Learning

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Xumeng Han

Research Interest: Computer Vision

PhD Students

Juanxi Tian (2026-)

Research Interest: World Model, Agentic Multimodal

Jirui Yang (2026-)

Research Interest: Video Generation, World Model

Jingsong Liang (2026-)

Research Interest: Embodied Intelligence, Agentic AI

Yanping Fu (2026-)

Research Interest: Embodied AI, Autonomous Driving

Research Assistants

Shizhe Zhang

Research Interest: Embodied Intelligence

Taheri Ghahrizjani Ali

Research Interest: Trustworthy Machine Learning, Agentic AI

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Research Associate · NTU SPACE Lab

Shizhe Zhang

Shizhe Zhang is a research associate at the SPAtial Computing and Embodied intelligence (SPACE) Lab. He received his M.S. degree in Robotics from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore, where he was advised by Prof. Guillaume Sartoretti, and his B.S. degree from the College of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering at Chongqing University.

His research focuses on evolving and collaborative embodied intelligence, aiming to build robotic agents that can continually adapt and improve their policies through interaction with the physical world. His interests include whole-body humanoid manipulation, multi-robot perception, coordinated execution, and collaborative decision-making, with the broader goal of enabling heterogeneous robots to learn, act, and collaborate effectively in complex real-world environments.
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Research Assistant · NTU SPACE Lab

Taheri Ghahrizjani Ali

Ali Taheri is a Research Assistant in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), working with Prof. Wanhua Li. His research focuses on trustworthy machine learning and AI safety, with broader interests in formal methods and verification. He received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Iran.

Before joining NTU, he conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Hong Kong Baptist University, and Simon Fraser University, working on safety verification of dynamical systems, robust LLM fine-tuning, and autonomous driving.
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Research Fellow · NTU SPACE Lab

Li-Jun Zhao

Li-Jun Zhao is currently a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in software engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2022 and 2026, respectively.

Her research interests include continual learning, few-shot learning, and fine-grained image analysis.
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PhD Student · NTU SPACE Lab

Juanxi Tian

Juanxi Tian is a PhD student at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), working with Wanhua Li and Jianfei Yang. He received his B.Sc. (Honours) from Hong Kong Baptist University, with a focus on computer science and artificial intelligence. He has interned at Shanghai AI Laboratory, Alibaba, and Ant Group, as well as at Tencent through its Qingyun Talent Program. He is also the founder and lead of OpenEnvision, a research hub that fosters collaboration between academia and industry.

His research focuses on agentic multimodal intelligence and world models, with the overarching goal of advancing general visual intelligence. He serves as a reviewer for top-tier AI conferences, including ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV, and for journals such as IEEE TPAMI and TMLR.
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PhD Student · NTU SPACE Lab

Jirui Yang

Jirui Yang is a PhD student at the NTU Space Lab, Nanyang Technological University. He received his B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Tsinghua University in 2026.

His research interests lie broadly in computer vision and generative modeling, with a particular focus on video generation, 3D/4D reconstruction and generation.
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PhD Student · NTU SPACE Lab

Jingsong Liang

Jingsong Liang is a PhD student in Robotics and AI at Nanyang Technological University, supervised by Prof. Wanhua Li and Prof. Chen Lv. He is a recipient of the IGP Artificial Intelligence-X Scholarship.

His research centers on Multimodal Embodied Generalist Agents (MEGA), aiming to build general-purpose agents that integrate multimodal perception, embodied reasoning, autonomous planning, and continual self-improvement in the physical world.
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PhD Student · NTU SPACE Lab

Yanping Fu

Yanping Fu is a first-year Ph.D. student in the SPACE Lab at NTU (Fall 2026), advised by Prof. Wanhua Li. He received his Master's degree from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2026, where he completed three years of graduate study.

His research interests lie in Embodied AI and Autonomous Driving. He serves as a reviewer for NeurIPS, IEEE RA-L, and ACM TIST.