Zhuoqun Chen

Zhuoqun Chen is a PhD student at Duke University, where he is advised by Prof. Boyuan Chen in the General Robotics Lab. His research focuses on enabling robots to interact with the physical world using human-like intelligence through data-driven approaches, with work spanning visuomotor control, legged locomotion, and neuro-symbolic reasoning for vision-language navigation. He previously earned an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC San Diego and has co-authored papers including the IROS 2026 Best Paper Award-winning VL-Nav and the CoRL 2024 Generalized Animal Imitator.