Ninghao (Alex) Lu

I am a junior student majoring in computer science at New York University, Shanghai, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Hongyi Wen and Prof. Shengjie Wang. During my study away in New York, I was lucky to work with Prof. Sherry Yang. Prior to this, I studied at Suzhou High School of Jiangsu Province from 2017–2023.

I am interested in enabling agents to learn through interaction and experience to help them reliably leverage their strengths in appropriate tasks. My current work focuses on video world models, including improving their capabilities and exploring their applications for enhancing agent performance across diverse scenarios. I am also interested in long-horizon context modeling in language / multimodal systems. If you share similar interests, feel free to reach out.

Publications

* refers to equal contribution.

• World-Gymnast: Training Robots with Reinforcement Learning in a World Model, ArXiv 2026
  Ansh Kumar Sharma, Yixiang Sun, Ninghao Lu, Yunzhe Zhang, Jiarao Liu, Sherry Yang

Personal

I play soccer a lot. I am a member of NYU Shanghai Men's soccer team where I play right back.

This website is based on the personal website template of Prof. Eunsol Choi, which I found to be concise and well-structured. I adapted and modified it for my own use.