Ph.D Student
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Office: Room 906, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building
Email: tangwl1024 [at] gmail.com
Short Bio
I'm currently on the job market. Please reach out if you think I would be a good fit. Thank you!
My research focuses on Embodiment AI toward two goals:
(1) language-directed robot manipulation that generalizes across tasks, robots, objects, and scenarios;
(2) accurate, robust dexterous manipulation on high-DoF platforms such as humanoids.
The long-term aim is to build systems like the dummy or JARVIS from Iron Man. Previously, I have extensive experience in 3D computer vision, autonomous driving, and few-shot learning.
Publications
* denotes the co-first author and † denotes the corresponding author.
STAMP-Manip: A Hybrid Framework with Spatiotemporal Alignment and Monitoring Protocol for Robotic Manipulation
Gang Wang, Youpeng Wen, Weiliang Tang, Hefeng Zhan, Wei Chen, Xieyuanli Chen, Yun-Hui Liu†
Mixture of Horizons in Action Chunking
Dong Jing, Gang Wang, Jiaqi Liu, Weiliang Tang, Zelong Sun, Yunchao Yao, Zhenyu Wei, Yun-Hui Liu, Zhiwu Lu, Mingyu Ding
Accepted by The International Conference on Machine Learning, (ICML), 2026.
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ROVE: Unlocking Human Interventions for Humanoid Manipulation via Reinforcement Learning
Wei Xiao*, Weiliang Tang*, Yuying Ge†, Hui Zhou, Yao Mu, Li Zhang, Yixiao Ge
Submited to Arxiv, 2026.
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Rethinking Intermediate Representation for VLM-based Robot Manipulation Weiliang Tang, Jialin Gao, Jia-Hui Pan, Gang Wang, Li Erran Li, Yun-Hui Liu, Mingyu Ding, Pheng-Ann Heng, Chi-Wing Fu† Accepted by Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, (CVPR), 2026.
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Incentivizing Multimodal Reasoning in Large Models for Direct Robot Manipulation Weiliang Tang*, Dong Jing*, Jia-Hui Pan, Zhiwu Lu, Yun-Hui Liu, Li Erran Li, Mingyu Ding, Chi-Wing Fu†, Mingyu Ding
Accepted by International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (IROS), 2026.
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Virtual iPhone demo (work with Yibin Liu (Leo)).
Geometric Constraints as General Interface for Robotic Manipulations Weiliang Tang, Jiahui Pan, Yun-Hui Liu, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Li Erran Li, Chi-Wing Fu†, Mingyu Ding
Accepted by International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (IROS), 2026.
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Embodiment-Agnostic Action Planning via Object-Part Scene Flow
Weiliang Tang, Weiliang Tang, Jia-Hui Pan, Wei Zhan, Jianshu Zhou, Huaxiu Yao, Yun-Hui Liu, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Mingyu Ding†, and Chi-Wing Fu† Accepted by International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA), 2025.
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Moto: Latent Motion Token as the Bridging Language for Robot Manipulation
Yi Chen, Yuying Ge, Weiliang Tang, Yizhuo Li, Yixiao Ge, Mingyu Ding, Ying Shan, Xihui Liu† Accepted by International Conference on Computer Vision, (ICCV), 2025.
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Overcoming Support Dilution for Robust Few-shot Semantic Segmentation
Weiliang Tang*, Biqi Yang*, Pheng-Ann Heng, Yun-Hui Liu, Chi-Wing Fu† Submited to IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, (TNNLS), 2025.
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Prototypical Variational Autoencoder for Few-shot 3D Point Cloud Object Detection
Weiliang Tang*, Biqi Yang*, Xianzhi Li, Pheng-Ann Heng, Yun-Hui Liu, Chi-Wing Fu† Accepted by Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, (NeurIPS), 2025.
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SKU-Patch: Towards Efficient Instance Segmentation for Unseen Objects in Auto-Store
Biqi Yang*, Weiliang Tang*, Xiaojie Gao, Xianzhi Li, Yun-Hui Liu, Chi-Wing Fu, Pheng-Ann Heng† Submited to Arxiv, 2023.
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SKU-Patch: Towards Efficient Instance Segmentation for Unseen Objects in Auto-Store
Wu Zheng Weiliang Tang, Sijin Chen, Li Jiang, Chi-Wing Fu† Accepted by The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021.
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SE-SSD: Self-Ensembling Single-Stage Object Detector From Point Cloud
Wu Zheng Weiliang Tang, Jiang Li, Chi-Wing Fu† Accepted by Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021.
[paper] [code]
Virtual Training Data Generation Pipeline with Unreal Engine 4
Weiliang Tang Project done in HKCLR, 2021
Teaching Experience
2021-2022 Fall Introduction to Algorithm(CSCI 3160).
2021-2022 Spring Principle of Software Engineering (CSCI 3180).