Xiang Zhu

I am a second-year Ph.D. student (successive postgraduate and doctoral programs) at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Jianyu Chen. Prior to that, I received my Bachelor's degree from the School of Automation, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

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Research

I'm interested in robotics, embodied AI. Recently, my research interests have primarily focused on dexterous manipulation, bimanual manipulation, and humanoid robot manipulation. I am particularly interested in learning from human data or leveraging human data for boosting performance.

(*: Equal contribution. Co-first Author.)

	Learning Generalizable Robot Policy with Human Demonstration Video as a Prompt Xiang Zhu, Yichen Liu, Hezhong Li, Jianyu Chen arXiv preprint, 2025 pdf /
	UP-VLA: A Unified Understanding and Prediction Model for Embodied Agent Jianke Zhang, Yanjiang Guo, Yucheng Hu, Xiaoyu Chen, Xiang Zhu, Jianyu Chen International Conference on Machine Learning(ICML), 2025 pdf /
	Advancing humanoid locomotion: Mastering challenging terrains with denoising world model learning Xinyang Gu, Yen-Jen Wang, Xiang Zhu, Chengming Shi, Yanjiang Guo, Yichen Liu, Jianyu Chen Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2024 pdf / code / Best Paper Award Finalists.
	A Contact-Safe Reinforcement Learning Framework for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation Xiang Zhu, Zixuan Chen, Jianyu Chen arXiv preprint, 2023 pdf /
	Stylized table tennis robots skill learning with incomplete human demonstrations Xiang Zhu, Shucheng Kang, Jianyu Chen International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022 pdf /

Design and source code from Jon Barron's website