Zhengcheng "Henry" Shen

Full-time Postdoctoral Researcher

henry.shen@smu.edu.sg

Previously: Max Planck Institute, Germany

About

Full-time postdoc at ARENA Lab (alongside Vova). Expert in semantic cognition and spatial imagination for mobile robots. Co-author on IROS Best Paper nominee. Previously at Max Planck Institute, Germany.

Research Interests

Semantic CognitionSpatial AIFoundation Models

Mentored by

Linh Kästner

Publications (7)

1 as first author6 as co-author

First-author papers (1)

Spatial Imagination With Semantic Cognition for Mobile Robots

Zhengcheng Shen, Linh Kästner, Jens Lambrecht

IEEE/RSJ IROS 2021, Prague, Czech Republic2021-06-01Nominated for Best Technical Paper Award

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Co-authored papers (6)

PEDS: Closed-Loop Benchmarking of Social Navigation across Pedestrian Behavior Models

Duc Tai Nguyen, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Anh Do Duc, Zhengcheng Shen, Linh Kästner

IEEE RA-L + ICRA 2027, Seoul, South Korea2026-10-14

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D3D-GEN: Robot-Aware Domain-Grounded Interactive 3D World Generation for Social Robotics

Anh Duc Do, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Tai Duc Nguyen, Spaarsh Thakkar, Zhengcheng Shen, Teham Buiyan, Archan Misra, Linh Kästner

IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026, Pittsburgh, USA2026-09-27

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GROVE: Grounded Pedestrian Simulation via Natural Language for Interactive Social Robot Navigation

Duc Tai Nguyen, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Anh Do Duc, Zhengcheng Shen, Teham Buiyan, Linh Kästner

IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026, Pittsburgh, USA2026-09-27

Paper arXiv

Arena-Bench 2.0: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Social Navigation Approaches in Collaborative Environments

Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Linh Kästner, Huajian Zeng, Jiaming Wang, Nhan Trinh, Zhengchen Shen, Giang Nguyen Huu Truong, Tim Lenz, Duc Anh Do, Ahmed Martban, and Eva Wiese

IROS 2025, Hangzhou, China2025-10-01

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