About

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, advised by Prof. Jianfei Yang. Previously, I received my M.S. in Computer Science and Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, supervised by Prof. Laurence T. Yang. And I received a B.S. in Biotechnology from Hunan University. During master, I have interned at Tongyi Lab, Alibaba, supervised by Weihao Yuan, focusing on 3D digital human, including motion generation and human reconstruction. Earlier, I interned at Westlake University in Prof. Stan Z. Liโ€™s group on 3D point cloud modeling, in collaboration with Zhangyang Gao and Cheng Tan. I also previously interned at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), supervised by Prof. Shanghang Zhang.

My research interests include Embodied AI, Humanoid Robotics, 3D Digital Humans, and Multimodal Learning.

I welcome research collaborations and inquiries in Embodied AI, Humanoid Robotics, and 3D Digital Human.

News

  • 2026-10
  • 2026-09
    We have released the code of OMEGA-0!
  • 2026-09
    ๐ŸŽ‰ RoboDreamer is accepted by CoRL, see you in USA!
  • 2026-08
    ๐ŸŽ‰ Towards a Unified Understanding of Robot Manipulation: A Comprehensive Survey is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)!
  • 2026-08
    ๐Ÿš€ Released the Omega-Home dataset!
  • 2026-08
    ๐ŸŽ‰ Our new work ฯ‰-0 is released now!
  • 2026-08
    ๐ŸŽ‰ Our new survey about Tactile and Force-awareness for robot is released on arXiv now!
  • 2026-07
    ๐ŸŽ‰ MulSMo is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)!
  • 2026-06
    ๐ŸŽ‰ RoboMirror is accepted by ECCV 2026!
  • 2026-04
    ๐ŸŒŸ RoboPerform is selected as CVPR 2026 Highlight Paper (2.98%)!
  • 2026-02
    ๐ŸŽ‰ RoboPerform is accepted by CVPR 2026, see you in Denver, USA!
  • 2026-01
    ๐ŸŽ‰ RoboGhost is accepted by ICLR 2026, see you in Rio, Brazil!
  • 2025-07
    ๐Ÿ’ผ Research internship at BAAI, focusing on humanoid robotics with Prof. Shanghang Zhang.
  • 2025-06
    ๐Ÿ† Awarded Outstanding Graduate at Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
  • 2025-02
    ๐ŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by CVPR 2025, congratulations to Lingteng Qiu!
  • 2025-01
    ๐ŸŽ‰ LaMP is accepted by ICLR 2025, see you in Singapore!
  • 2024-11
    ๐Ÿ† Awarded the National Scholarship.
  • 2024-05
    ๐Ÿ’ผ Research internship at Tongyi Lab, focusing on 3D Digital Human with Weihao Yuan.
  • 2024-02
    ๐ŸŽ‰ Two papers are accepted by CVPR 2024, see you in Seattle, USA!
  • 2023-11
    ๐Ÿ† Awarded the National Scholarship.
  • 2023-07
    ๐ŸŽ‰ One paper is accepted by ACM MM 2023, see you in Ottawa, Canada!

Publications

21 papers ยท Underlined authors: equal contribution.

2027

Framework overview for Mitigating Prior Shape Bias in Point Clouds via Differentiable Center Learning

Mitigating Prior Shape Bias in Point Clouds via Differentiable Center Learning

Zhe Li, Xiying Wang, Jinglin Zhao, Zheng Wang, Debin Liu, Laurence T. Yang

WACV 2027

2026

Framework overview for RoboDreamer: Anticipatory Humanoid Locomotion with Predictive State-Space Models

RoboDreamer: Anticipatory Humanoid Locomotion with Predictive State-Space Models

Zhe Li, Yangyang Wei, Xichen Yuan, Zhenzhe Zhang, Weihao Yuan, Shanghang Zhang, Jianfei Yang

CoRL 2026

Framework overview for Towards a Unified Understanding of Robot Manipulation: A Comprehensive Survey

Towards a Unified Understanding of Robot Manipulation: A Comprehensive Survey

Shuanghao Bai, Wenxuan Song, Jiayi Chen, Yuheng Ji, Zhide Zhong, Jin Yang, Han Zhao, Wanqi Zhou, Wei Zhao, Zhe Li, Pengxiang Ding, Cheng Chi, Haoang Li, Chang Xu, Xiaolong Zheng, Donglin Wang, Shanghang Zhang, Badong Chen

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Equal Contribution

Framework overview for ฯ‰-0: A Latent Predictive World Action Model for Concurrent Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

ฯ‰-0: A Latent Predictive World Action Model for Concurrent Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

Zhe Li, Zhenzhe Zhang, Yangyang Wei, Wenjie Zhang, Xichen Yuan, Peiyuan Zhi, Gen Li, Xinying Guo, Fengjie Gao, Jianfei Yang, Shanghang Zhang

arXiv 2026

Framework overview for MulSMo: Multimodal Stylized Motion Generation by Bidirectional Control Flow

MulSMo: Multimodal Stylized Motion Generation by Bidirectional Control Flow

Zhe Li, Y He, L Zhong, W Shen, Q Zuo, L Qiu, Z Dong, Laurence T. Yang, W Yuan

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Framework overview for Learning Physical Interaction: A Survey of Tactile- and Force-aware Robot Learning

Learning Physical Interaction: A Survey of Tactile- and Force-aware Robot Learning

Shilin Shan, Chuhao Zhou, Ruize Wang, Xinyan Chen, Xiangyu Chen, Xinyu Zhou, Boyu Ma, Iris Yuxuan Hu, Jingliang Li, Celeste Yuxuan Hu, Geng Li, Guohao Chen, Tianrui Zhu, Zhe Li, Yanjie Ze, Haoran Geng, Zhiyang Dou, Jianxin Bi, Yuejiang Liu, Jianshu Zhou, Jiachen Li, Paul Liang, Tatsuya Harada, Robert Katzschmann, Harold Soh, Na Li, Edward Johns, Danica Kragic, Jan Peters, Wojciech Matusik, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Jitendra Malik, Jianfei Yang

arXiv 2026

Framework overview for RoboForge: Physically Optimized Text-guided Whole-Body Locomotion for Humanoids

RoboForge: Physically Optimized Text-guided Whole-Body Locomotion for Humanoids

X Yuan, Zhe Li, B Lyu, K Zuo, Y Lu, G Li, J Yang

arXiv 2026

Equal Contribution and Project Lead

Framework overview for Mosaic: Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap in Generalist Humanoid Motion Tracking and Teleoperation with Rapid Residual Adaptation

Mosaic: Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap in Generalist Humanoid Motion Tracking and Teleoperation with Rapid Residual Adaptation

Z Sun, BS Huang, Y Peng, X Li, J Ma, Y Sun, Zhe Li, H Jiang, B Gao, Z Bing

arXiv 2026

Framework overview for Latent Reasoning VLA: Latent Thinking and Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models

Latent Reasoning VLA: Latent Thinking and Prediction for Vision-Language-Action Models

S Bai, J Lyu, W Zhou, Zhe Li, D Wang, L Xing, X Zhao, P Wang, Z Wang

arXiv 2026

Framework overview for RoboBrain 2.5: Depth in Sight, Time in Mind

RoboBrain 2.5: Depth in Sight, Time in Mind

H Tan, E Zhou, Zhe Li, Y Xu, Y Ji, X Chen, C Chi, P Wang, H Jia, Y Ao

arXiv 2026

Framework overview for RoboMirror: Understand Before You Imitate for Video to Humanoid Locomotion

RoboMirror: Understand Before You Imitate for Video to Humanoid Locomotion

Zhe Li, C Chi, B Zhu, Y Wei, S Bai, Y Ji, Y Peng, T Huang, P Wang, Z Wang

ECCV 2026

Framework overview for Do You Have Freestyle? Expressive Humanoid Locomotion via Audio Control

Do You Have Freestyle? Expressive Humanoid Locomotion via Audio Control

Zhe Li, Cheng Chi, Yangyang Wei, Boan Zhu, Tao Huang, Zhenguo Sun, Yibo Peng, Pengwei Wang, Zhongyuan Wang, Fangzhou Liu, Chang Xu, Shanghang Zhang

CVPR 2026

Highlight

Framework overview for From Language to Locomotion: Retargeting-free Humanoid Control via Motion Latent Guidance

From Language to Locomotion: Retargeting-free Humanoid Control via Motion Latent Guidance

Zhe Li, Yangyang Wei, Boan Zhu, Yibo Peng, Tao Huang, Pengwei Wang, Zhongyuan Wang, Cheng Chi, Shanghang Zhang, Chang Xu

ICLR 2026

2025

Framework overview for Embodied Robot Manipulation in the Era of Foundation Models: Planning and Learning Perspectives

Embodied Robot Manipulation in the Era of Foundation Models: Planning and Learning Perspectives

S Bai, W Song, J Chen, Y Ji, Z Zhong, J Yang, H Zhao, W Zhou, Zhe Li

arXiv 2025

Framework overview for OmniMotion: Multimodal Motion Generation with Continuous Masked Autoregression

OmniMotion: Multimodal Motion Generation with Continuous Masked Autoregression

Zhe Li, Weihao Yuan, Weichao Shen, Siyu Zhu, Zilong Dong, Chang Xu

arXiv 2025

Framework overview for ANIgs: Animatable Gaussian Avatar from a Single Image with Inconsistent Gaussian Reconstruction

ANIgs: Animatable Gaussian Avatar from a Single Image with Inconsistent Gaussian Reconstruction

L Qiu, S Zhu, Q Zuo, X Gu, Y Dong, J Zhang, C Xu, Zhe Li, W Yuan, L Bo

CVPR 2025

Framework overview for LaMP: Language-Motion Pretraining for Motion Generation, Retrieval, and Captioning

LaMP: Language-Motion Pretraining for Motion Generation, Retrieval, and Captioning

Zhe Li, Weihao Yuan, Yisheng He, Lingteng Qiu, Shenhao Zhu, X Gu, Weichao Shen, Y Dong, Zilong Dong

ICLR 2025

2024

Framework overview for MCMat: Multiview-consistent and Physically Accurate PBR Material Generation

MCMat: Multiview-consistent and Physically Accurate PBR Material Generation

S Zhu, L Qiu, X Gu, Z Zhao, C Xu, Y He, Zhe Li, X Han, Y Yao, X Cao, S Zhu

arXiv 2024

Framework overview for General Point Model Pretraining with Autoencoding and Autoregressive

General Point Model Pretraining with Autoencoding and Autoregressive

Zhe Li, Zhangyang Gao, Cheng Tan, Bocheng Ren, Laurence T. Yang, Stan Z. Li

CVPR 2024

Top Ten Outstanding Paper Award, HUST

Framework overview for MLIP: Enhancing Medical Visual Representation with Divergence Encoder and Knowledge-guided Contrastive Learning

MLIP: Enhancing Medical Visual Representation with Divergence Encoder and Knowledge-guided Contrastive Learning

Zhe Li, Laurence T. Yang, Bocheng Ren, Xin Nie, Zhangyang Gao, Cheng Tan, Stan Z. Li

CVPR 2024

2023

Framework overview for Enhancing Sentence Representation with Visually-supervised Multimodal Pre-training

Enhancing Sentence Representation with Visually-supervised Multimodal Pre-training

Zhe Li, Laurence T. Yang, Xin Nie, Bocheng Ren, Xianjun Deng

ACM MM 2023

Education

Ph.D. in Robotics

09/2026-06/2029 (Expected)

Nanyang Technology University

Supervisor: Prof. Jianfei Yang

Humanoid RobotsEmbodied Intelligence

M.S. in Computer Science and Technology

09/2022 โ€“ 06/2025

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Supervisor: Prof. Laurence T. Yang

Multimodal LearningComputer Vision

B.S. in Biotechnology

09/2017 โ€“ 07/2021

Hunan University

Biotechnology

Experience

Research Internship

07/2025 โ€“ 08/2026

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)

Supervised by Prof. Shanghang Zhang

Embodied AIHumanoid Loco-manipulation

Research Internship

07/2024 โ€“ 03/2025

Tongyi Lab, Alibaba

Supervised by Weihao Yuan

3D Digital HumanMultimodal

Part-time Research Internship

07/2023 โ€“ 11/2023

Westlake University

Supervised by Stan Z.Li

3D VisionPoint Clouds