Celina (Shiyu) Wang

Major in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Minor in Physics · Minor in Computer Science
University of Southern California

I am a senior undergraduate student at USC working on robot learning and formal methods. I collaborate with Prof. Jyotirmoy (Jyo) Deshmukh in the CPS-VIDA Lab and Prof. Yue Wang in the Physical Superintelligence (PSI) Lab.

My research interests include robot learning, cyber-physical systems, formal methods, and multi-robot systems.

📢 I am looking for a PhD position (starting Fall 2027) and a summer internship. Feel free to reach out!

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Publications

Z-sight: Unifying Vision-Language-Action and Latent World Modeling

Junjie Ye*, Yiqi Zhao*, Muchen Xu*, Celina Shiyu Wang, Hao Dong, Ruohai Ge, Rong Xue, Benjamin J Kolligs, Aditya Dutt, Nassim A. Samad, Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh, Yue Wang†, Yuliang Guo†

In Submission

Rolling-WAM: World Action Models with Rolling Imagination

Yinghua Zhou*, Junjie Ye*, Yiqi Zhao, Hao Dong, Celina Shiyu Wang, Ruohai Ge, Tingyi Yang, Basile Van Hoorick, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini†, Yue Wang†

arXiv 2026 Paper Project Code

Logic-VLA: A Temporal Logic Conditioned Vision-Language-Action Model

Celina Shiyu Wang, Yiqi Zhao†, Junjie Ye, Yue Wang, Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh†

🏆 Best Poster Presentation Award, IROS 2026 Workshop on Learning and Formal Methods for Robotics (LAFR)

Oral, IROS 2026 Workshop on Embodied Neuro-Symbolic AI for Reliable and Safe Robotics

arXiv 2026 Paper Project

DUET: Dual-Robot Understanding via Efficient Teaching

Yiqi Zhao*, Ruohai Ge*, Celina Shiyu Wang, Junjie Ye, Muchen Xu, Minhao Li, Sergey Zakharov, Basile Van Hoorick, Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini, Leonidas Guibas, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh, Yue Wang

🏆 Best Contribution Award, IROS 2026 Workshop on Real-World Challenges in Multi-Robot Cooperation

🏆 Best Paper Finalist, IROS 2026 Workshop on Physical Collaboration and Interaction in Multi-Robot Systems

arXiv 2026 Paper Project Video

* equal contribution · † equal advising

Service

Reviewer, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2027
Reviewer, IROS 2026 Workshop on Learning and Formal Methods for Robotics (LAFR)

Beyond the Lab

Stargazing has always been a source of wonder for me, and it is where my curiosity about the universe began. Outside the lab I am an astrophotographer: I carry a telescope out to dark skies and spend whole nights imaging nebulae and star clusters thousands of light-years away.

See my astrophotography →