😄 About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Instrument Science and Technology at Southeast University, advised by Associate Professor Yiqing Yao.

From Sep. 2026 to Aug. 2027, I will be a visiting joint Ph.D. student at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, working with Associate Professor Bihan Wen under the support of the China Scholarship Council (CSC).

My research interests include autonomous driving, 4D radar perception, localization and mapping, multi-sensor fusion, embodied AI, and robotic perception. In particular, my research goal is to develop robust perception and navigation systems that enable intelligent robots to operate reliably in complex real-world environments.

🔜: I am actively seeking postdoctoral positions starting in 2027 in the areas of autonomous driving, robotics, embodied AI, and multimodal perception. I welcome discussions on potential collaborations and relevant opportunities. Contact: longzhuang21@126.com.

🔥 News

2026-05-28: 🎉 Awarded the CSC Scholarship and will join the research group of Assoc. Prof. Bihan Wen at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore as a joint Ph.D. student from Sep. 2026 to Aug. 2027.
2026-05-24: 🎉 Our paper RCPRNet is published in TIE. [Paper] [Code]
2026-03-19: 🎉 Our paper RCOC-Distill is published in TMM. [Paper] [Code]
2025-12-15: Selected for the 2025 Special Program for Doctoral Students under the CSCS Young Science and Technology Talent Cultivation Project.

📝 Publications

🔹 Long Zhuang, Yiqing Yao*, and Tao Zhang.
RCPRNet: Robust 4D Radar-Camera Place Recognition.
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2026.

🔹 Long Zhuang, Yiqing Yao*, and Tao Zhang.
RCOC-Distill: Boosting 4D Radar-Camera Online Calibration with Knowledge Distillation from LiDAR Features.[Paper] [Code]
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2026.

🔹 Long Zhuang, Yiqing Yao*, and Nuo Li.
RC-ROSNet: Fusing 3D Radar Range-Angle Heat Maps and Camera Images for Radar Object Segmentation.[Paper] [Code]
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2026.

🔹 Long Zhuang, Tiezhen Jiang*, Hao Jiang, Anqi Wang, and Zhixiang Huang.
LQCANet: Learnable-Query-Guided Multi-Scale Fusion Network Based on Cross-Attention for Radar Semantic Segmentation.[Paper]
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2024.

🔹 Long Zhuang, Kai Luo, and Zhibo Yang*.
A Multimodal Gated Recurrent Unit Neural Network Model for Damage Assessment in CFRP Composites Based on Lamb Waves and Minimal Sensing.⭐ (ESI Highly Cited Paper) [Paper]
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2024.

🔹 Long Zhuang, Yiqing Yao*, Nuo Li, Zijian Wang, Lingtong Zhong, Zijing Zhang, and Tao Zhang.
4DRC-OC: Online Calibration of 4D Millimeter Wave Radar-Camera With Depth Map Assistance.[Paper] [Code]
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025.

🔹 Long Zhuang, Yiqing Yao*, Taihong Yang, Zijian Wang, and Tao Zhang.
Boosting FMCW Radar Heat Map Object Detection with Raw ADC Data.[Paper] [Code]
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025.

🔹 Long Zhuang, Tiezhen Jiang*, Meng Qiu, Anqi Wang, and Zhixiang Huang.
Transformer Generates Conditional Convolution Kernels for End-to-End Lane Detection.[Paper] [Code]
IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024.

🔹 Long Zhuang, Tiezhen Jiang*, Jianhua Wang, Qi An, Kai Xiao, and Anqi Wang.
Effective mmWave Radar Object Detection Pretraining Based on Masked Image Modeling.[Paper]
IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024.

🔹 Tiezhen Jiang, Long Zhuang*, Qi An, Jianhua Wang, Kai Xiao, and Anqi Wang.
T-RODNet: Transformer for Vehicular Millimeter-Wave Radar Object Detection.[Paper] [Code]
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2023.

🔹 Tiezhen Jiang, Qingzhu Li, Zhixiang Huang, and Long Zhuang*, et al.
CT-RURnet: a novel network design for radar unmanned aerial vehicles recognition.[Paper]
Measurement Science and Technology, 2024.

🔹 Tiezhen Jiang, Long Zhuang*, Jianhua Wang, Qi An.
Design of dual-band filtering patch antenna slot coupling feed.[Paper]
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, 2024.

📖 Education

2024 – Present, Ph.D. Candidate, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
Supervisor: Associate Professor Yiqing Yao
Sep. 2026 – Aug. 2027, Visiting Joint Ph.D. Student, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Supervisor: Associate Professor Bihan Wen
2021 – 2024, M.S., Anhui University, Hefei, China
Supervisor: Associate Professor Tiezhen Jiang

🤝 Collaborators

Lianqing Zheng, Ph.D. candidate in the School of Automotive Studies, Tongji University, Shanghai.
Kai Luo, Ph.D. candidate in the School of Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (AIM), Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, P. R. China.
Yuan Fang, Ph.D. candidate in the Urban wireless sensing lab, Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London, United Kingdom.
Wenkai Zhu, Zihang Wang, Ph.D. candidate in Southeast University.