- Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
Saarland Informatics Campus
Campus E1 4
66123 Saarbrücken - Room 629
- xzhang@mpi-inf.mpg.de
About Me
I am a final-year PhD student at the Real Virtual Humans group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, under supervision of Dr. Gerard Pons-Moll.
Research Interests
- Human motion analysis and modeling
Education
- Ph.D at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland, Germany, February 2020 - Present
- M.Sc in Statistics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, October 2017 - September 2018
- B.Sc in Mathematics, Imperial College London, United Kingdom, October 2014 - June 2017
Publications

Yannan He,
Garvita Tiwari,
Xiaohan Zhang,
Pankaj Bora,
Tolga Birdal,
Jan Eric Lenssen,
Gerard Pons-Moll
MoLingo: Motion-Language Alignment for Text-to-Motion Generation
in Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
MoLingo: Motion-Language Alignment for Text-to-Motion Generation
in Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.

Xiaohan Zhang,
Bharat Lal Bhatnagar,
Sebastian Starke,
Ilya A. Petrov,
Vladimir Guzov,
Helisa Dhamo,
Eduardo Pérez Pellitero,
Gerard Pons-Moll
FORCE: Dataset and Method for Intuitive Physics Guided Human-object Interaction
in International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2025.
FORCE: Dataset and Method for Intuitive Physics Guided Human-object Interaction
in International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2025.

Xiaohan Zhang,
Sebastian Starke,
Vladimir Guzov,
Helisa Dhamo,
Eduardo Pérez Pellitero,
Gerard Pons-Moll
SCENIC: Scene-aware Semantic Navigation with Instruction-guided Control
in Arxiv, 2024.
SCENIC: Scene-aware Semantic Navigation with Instruction-guided Control
in Arxiv, 2024.

Xiaohan Zhang,
Bharat Lal Bhatnagar,
Sebastian Starke,
Vladimir Guzov,
Gerard Pons-Moll
COUCH: Towards Controllable Human-Chair Interactions
in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.
COUCH: Towards Controllable Human-Chair Interactions
in European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.