I am an incoming Ph.D. student at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), starting in Fall 2026, where I will be advised by Prof. Yike Guo and Prof. Sirui Han. I received my B.Eng. from School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University, in 2026.

Currently, I am a research intern at the HMI Lab, Peking University and the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), working with Prof. Shanghang Zhang. Earlier, I was a research intern at Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University, working with Prof. Yang Gao.

Feel free to reach out if you’d like to discuss research or explore potential collaboration!

News

• 2026.07:  🎉🎉 TwinRL is accepted by ACM MM 2026!
• 2026.06:  🎉🎉 STAG-VIO is accepted by IROS 2026!
• 2026.02:  🎉🎉 MotionTrans is accepted by ICRA 2026!

Experience

2022.9 - 2026.6

Electronic Information School, Wuhan University

Undergraduate Student

Major in Electronic Information Engineering. GPA: 3.95/4.00. Ranked in the top 1.5%.

2024.12 - 2025.8

Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University

Research Intern

Research Intern at EVAR Lab in THU IIIS, working with Prof. Yang Gao.

2025.8 - Present

School of Computer Science, Peking University

Research Intern

Research Intern at HMI Lab in PKU, working with Prof. Shanghang Zhang.

2025.9 - Present

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)

Research Intern

Research Intern at BAAI, working with Prof. Shanghang Zhang.

Publications

ICRA 2026

MotionTrans: Human VR Data Enable Motion-Level Learning for Robotic Manipulation Policies

Chengbo Yuan, Rui Zhou*, Mengzhen Liu*, Yingdong Hu, Shengjie Wang, Li Yi, Chuan Wen, Shanghang Zhang, Yang Gao†

IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA), 2026

ArXiv Project Page Code 🤗 Dataset

IROS 2026

STAG-VIO: Stabilized Prompt-to-Geometry Interface for Robust Dynamic Visual--Inertial Odometry

Rui Zhou, Jingbin Liu†, Junbin Xie, Jianyu Zhang, Yingze Hu, Jiele Zhao

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026

ArXiv Project Page 🤗 Dataset

ACM MM 2026

TwinRL: Digital Twin-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Robotic Manipulation

Qinwen Xu*, Jiaming Liu*, Rui Zhou*, Shaojun Shi*, Nuowei Han*, Zhuoyang Liu, Chenyang Gu, Yang Yue, Gao Huang, Wenzhao Zheng, Sirui Han, Peng Jia, Shanghang Zhang†

ACM Multimedia 2026

ArXiv Project Page Code Assets & Dataset

ArXiv

Video2Act: A Dual-System Video Diffusion Policy with Robotic Spatio-Motional Modeling

Yueru Jia*, Jiaming Liu*, Shengbang Liu*, Rui Zhou, Wanhe Yu, Yuyang Yan, Xiaowei Chi, Yandong Guo, Boxin Shi, Shanghang Zhang†

In Submission

ArXiv Project Page Code

Projects

Open Source

DexTeleGym: immersive VR bimanual teleoperation in NVIDIA Isaac Gym

Rui Zhou

DexTeleGym is an immersive VR bimanual teleoperation pipeline for NVIDIA Isaac Gym, enabling real-time control of dual Franka Panda arms equipped with Dexterous Hands using Meta Quest 3. It features low-latency WebRTC video streaming, robust hand tracking and gesture-based control, multi-modal visual feedback (RGB/depth/segmentation), and episode recording for collecting high-quality teleoperation demonstrations and datasets for learning-based manipulation.

Code

Honors & Awards

• 2026-06: Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, Wuhan University
• 2026-06: Outstanding Undergraduate Graduate, Class of 2026
• 2025-08: 2nd Prize, National Level, National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest
• 2024-12: National Scholarship
• 2024-11: Wuhan University Excellent Student Class A Scholarship
• 2024-07: 2nd Prize, China Integrated Circuit Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition
• 2023-12: 1st Prize, Mathematics competition of Chinese
• 2023-11: Wuhan University Huang Zhangren Special Scholarship
• 2023-11: Wuhan University Excellent Student Class A Scholarship
• 2023-08: 1st Prize, Provincial Level, National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest