Hi, I am a PhD student in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, supervised by Assoc. Prof. Bihan Wen and Dr. Cheston Tan with A*STAR Graduate Scholarship (Computing) and currently work as a World Model Research Intern at Tencent.
My research interests include multimodal reasoning, embodied AI, and world models, with a particular focus on building intelligent and trustworthy systems that can perceive, reason, and model the dynamic environments.

🔥 News

  • 2026.06: 🎉 FailSafe was accepted to IROS 2026 as first author.
  • 2025.10: 🎉 GroundFlow was accepted to ICCV 2025 as first author.
  • 2025.04: 🎉 1 paper appeared at ICLR 2025 SynthData Workshop as first author.
  • 2024.08: ⛵ I started my PhD journey at NTU as an A*STAR Graduate Scholar.
  • 2024.07: 🎓 I graduated from NTU with a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours (Highest Distinction).
  • 2024.06: 🎉 1 paper appeared at CVPR 2024 Syndata4CV Workshop as first author.

📖 Education

Nanyang Technological University
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Aug. 2024 – Present
  • Full-time PhD student supervised by Assoc. Prof. Bihan Wen (NTU) and Dr. Cheston Tan (A*STAR).
  • Research interests: multimodal reasoning, embodied AI, and world models.
  • CGPA: 4.75 / 5.00; recipient of the A*STAR Graduate Scholarship (Computing).
Nanyang Technological University
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Aug. 2020 – Jun. 2024
  • Graduated with Honours (Highest Distinction), CGPA: 4.96 / 5.00.
  • Dean’s List in 2020–2021, 2021–2022, and 2023–2024.
  • Ministry of Education Full Scholarship recipient (SM2).

📝 Selected Publications

arXiv 2026
StatePlay teaser

StatePlay: State-Aware Game World Models for Mechanics-Consistent Generation

Zijun Lin, Zeqing Wang, Cheston Tan, Bihan Wen, Yeying Jin

arXiv, 2026

Project Paper Code
IROS 2026

FailSafe: Reasoning and Recovery from Failures in Vision-Language-Action Models

Zijun Lin, Jiafei Duan, Haoquan Fang, Dieter Fox, Ranjay Krishna, Cheston Tan, Bihan Wen

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026

Project Paper Code Video
ICCV 2025
GroundFlow model architecture

GroundFlow: A Plug-in Module for Temporal Reasoning on 3D Point Cloud Sequential Grounding

Zijun Lin, Shuting He, Cheston Tan, Bihan Wen

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025

Paper Code
ASIACCS 2023
QUDA framework

QUDA: Query-Limited Data-Free Model Extraction

Zijun Lin, Ke Xu, Chengfang Fang, Huadi Zheng, Jaheezuddin Aneez Ahmed, Jie Shi

ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2023 [Distinguished Papers Award — Top 2%]

Paper Conference

💼 Experience

Tencent
World Model Research Intern
May 2026 – Present
A*STAR
PhD Scholar and Researcher
Aug. 2024 – Present

🎖 Honors and Awards

  • 2024.08 A*STAR Graduate Scholarship (Computing)
  • 2024.07 IEEE Control Systems Chapter (Singapore) Prize (1 recipient selected).
  • 2023.07 Distinguished Papers Award, ACM ASIACCS 2023 (Top 2%).
  • 2020–2024 Dean’s List ×3 (2020–2021, 2021–2022, 2023–2024) (Top 5%).
  • 2020–2024 Ministry of Education Full Scholarship Recipient (SM2).

🎵 Beyond Research

In my free time, I enjoy singing, and I used to be the lead vocalist of a band. Here are a few covers if you're interested in listening.

Acoustic Cover
程艾影 写给黄淮 Perfect
Band Cover
男孩别哭 漠河舞厅