Dong An Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) Email: dong[dot]an[at]mbzuai[dot]ac[dot]ae

About Me

I'm a Postdoctoral Researcher at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), advised by Prof. Ian Reid. Prior to that, I received the Ph.D. degree from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) in 2024, advised by Prof. Tieniu Tan, Prof. Liang Wang and Prof. Yan Huang. I got the B.S. degree from Peking University (PKU) in 2019. My research interests lie in the intersection of deep learning and robotics, with a focus on Embodied AI and Multimodal Learning.

Publications

* equal contribution

• ETPNav: Evolving Topological Planning for Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments

  Dong An, Hanqing Wang, Wenguan Wang, Zun Wang, Yan Huang, Keji He, Liang Wang

  IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2024. [Paper] [Code]

• BEVBert: Multimodal Map Pre-training for Language-guided Navigation

  Dong An, Yuankai Qi, Yangguang Li, Yan Huang, Liang Wang, Tieniu Tan, Jing Shao

  International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023. [Paper] [Code]

• 1st Place Solutions for RxR-Habitat Vision-and-Language Navigation Competition

  Dong An*, Zun Wang*, Yangguang Li, Yi Wang, Yicong Hong, Yan Huang, Liang Wang, Jing Shao

  Room-Across-Room (RxR) Habitat Challenge (CVPR Embodied AI Workshop), 2022. [Paper]

• Neighbor-view Enhanced Model for Vision and Language Navigation

  Dong An, Yuankai Qi, Yan Huang, Qi Wu, Liang Wang, Tieniu Tan

  ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM), 2021. (Oral) [Paper] [Code]

• Constraint-Aware Zero-Shot Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments

  Kehan Chen*, Dong An*, Yan Huang, Rongtao Xu, Yifei Su, Yonggen Ling, Ian Reid, Liang Wang

  Preprint, 2025. [Paper] [Webpage] [Code]

• Learning Fine-Grained Alignment for Aerial Vision-Dialog Navigation

  Yifei Su, Dong An, Kehan Chen, Weichen Yu, Baiyang Ning, Yonggen Ling, Yan Huang, Liang Wang

  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025.

• Language and Planning in Robotic Navigation: A Multilingual Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Models

  Malak Mansour, Ahmed Aly, Bahey Tharwat, Sarim Hashmi, Dong An, Ian Reid

  Workshop on Planning in the Era of LLMs (LM4Plan @ AAAI), 2025. [Paper]

• Memory-Adaptive Vision-and-Language Navigation

  Keji He, Ya Jing, Yan Huang, Zhihe Lu, Dong An, Liang Wang

  Pattern Recognition (PR), 2024. [Paper]

• Target-Grounded Graph-Aware Transformer for Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation

  Yifei Su, Dong An, Yuan Xu, Kehan Chen, Yan Huang

  Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation (AVDN) Challenge (ICCV CLVL Workshop), 2023. [Paper] [Code]

• Neighbor Regularized Bayesian Optimization for Hyperparameter Optimization

  Lei Cui, Yangguang Li, Xin Lu, Dong An, Fenggang Liu

  British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2022. [Paper]

• Landmark-RxR: Solving Vision-and-Language Navigation with Fine-Grained Alignment Supervision

  Keji He, Yan Huang, Qi Wu, Jianhua Yang, Dong An, Shuanglin Sima, Liang Wang

  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021. [Paper] [Code]

Competitions

Aerial Vision-and-Dialogue Navigation Challenge @ ICCV 2023 . Our team susanping (Yifei Su, Dong An, Yuan Xu, Kehan Chen, Yan Huang) is the winner. See details here: Results of AVDN Challenge 2023.

RxR-Habitat Vision-and-Language Navigation Challenge @ CVPR 2022 . Our team Joyboy (Dong An*, Zun Wang*, Yangguang Li, Yi Wang, Yicong Hong, Yan Huang, Liang Wang, Jing Shao) is the winner. See details here: Results of RxR-Habitat 2022.

REVERIE Challenge @ CSIG 2022. Our team TouchFish (Dong An, Yifei Su, Shuanglin Sima, Hongyuan Yu, Weichen Yu, Yan Huang) is the runner-up of both channels. See details here: Results of REVERIE Challenge 2022.

Learning and Mining with Noisy Labels Challenge @ IJCAI-ECAI 2022. Our team (Weichen Yu, Hongyuan Yu, Yan Huang, Dong An, Keji He, Zhipeng Zhang, Xiuchuan Li, Liang Wang) is the runner-up of task 1-1 and 2nd runner-up of task 1-2. See details here: Results.

Professional Activities

• Winner invited talk at Embodied AI Workshop @ CVPR 2022

• Reviewer: ACM MM'21, IJCAI'23, NeurIPS'23, AAAI'24, CVPR'24, ECCV'24, ACM MM'24, NeurIPS'24, ICLR'25, ICML'25, TMLR'25

Honors and Awards

• 2023, Winner of AVDN Challenge, ICCV 2023 [AVDN Certificate]

• 2022, Winner of RxR-Habitat Challenge, CVPR 2022 [RxR-Habitat Certificate]

• 2022, Runner-up of REVERIE Challenge, CSIG 2022 [REVERIE Certificate_1] [REVERIE Certificate_2]

• 2022, Runner-up of Learning and Mining with Noisy Labels Challenge, IJCAI-ECAI 2022 [Noisy-Labels Certificate]

• 2021, Outstanding Student of CAS

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke

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