Curriculum Vitae

General Information

Full Name Mellon M. Zhang
Contact meilongz [at] gatech [dot] edu
Languages English (native), Chinese (fluent), Spanish (beginner)

Research Areas

  • My research broadly focuses on designing reliable and capable robots for the dynamic real world. To this end, I work on effective spatiotemporal modeling, memory-augmented perception, and vision-language-action models.
  • I am actively working on projects in temporal LiDAR object detection and VLA reasoning. I am also interested in areas related to robotics control, such as differentiable rendering and closing the sim-to-real gap.
  • In the distant past, I worked on circuit-tracing of large language models on neuroscience tasks.

Leadership and Volunteering Activities

  • 2020 - now
    • Mentorship:
    • - Mentor for Georgia Tech's Project ENGAGES (2025 - now)
    • - Mentor for CSM (Computer Science Mentors) at UC Berkeley (2020 - 2022)
  • 2025 - now
    • I was a reviewer for CoRL (2025).