CoSTA Lab, ECE, National University of Singapore

Junrui Zhang

Research Assistant in CoSTA@NUS Lab, ECE

About

I am currently a Research Assistant in the CoSTA@NUS Lab, ECE, advised by Prof. Junyuan Hong. My research interests include large language models, machine learning, and robotics.

Before joining NUS, I received my master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), advised by Prof. Yanyong Zhang and Prof. Jianmin Ji. I received my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), under the supervision of Prof. Kui Yu.

News

I will begin my internship at Tencent Hunyuan in August 2026.
One paper about LLM failure tracing is accepted by COLM 2026.
One paper about multimodal robustness is accepted by AAAI 2026.
One paper about trajectory planning is accepted by ICRA 2025.
One paper about robot navigation is accepted by IROS 2024.

Selected Publications

AAAI 2026

Vulnerability-Aware Robust Multimodal Adversarial Training

Junrui Zhang, Xinyu Zhao, Jie Peng, Chenjie Wang, Jianmin Ji^*, Tianlong Chen

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ICRA 2025

CAFE-AD: Cross-Scenario Adaptive Feature Enhancement for Trajectory Planning in Autonomous Driving

Junrui Zhang^†, Chenjie Wang^†, Jie Peng, Haoyu Li, Jianmin Ji^*, Yu Zhang, Yanyong Zhang

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^† Equal contribution. ^* Corresponding author.

Honors

2026 Provincial Outstanding Graduate.
2026 USTC Outstanding Graduate.
2025 National Scholarship.
2025 IEEE RAS Travel Grant.
2022 Huawei Intelligent Base Scholarship.

Fun Facts

I am a Formula 1 fan and absolutely a tifosi. Forza Ferrari!
Inspired by Ruolin Wang, I have become a beginner amateur astronomer.

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), captured by Sony A7M4 and 20-70mm G lens

Charles Leclerc in the Ferrari SF-24 at the 2024 Shanghai Grand Prix — Charles Leclerc at the 2024 Shanghai Grand Prix