Dayou(Edison) Li

PhD Student
Texas A&M University
dayou519@tamu.edu

About Me

I am a second-year PhD student of the Physical Automation Intelligence(PHAI) Lab at Texas A&M University, advised by Dr. Zhiwen Fan and Dr. Minghui Zheng.

For the most recent publication, press here.

Research Interests

Robotics: reinforcement learning, VLA, cross-embodiment learning
Computer Vision: 3D generation, world model

News

[Jun. 2026] 1 ECCV and 1 IROS papers got accepted.
[Feb. 2026] One paper is accepted to CVPR 2026 Findings.
[Jun. 2024] Two papers are accepted to IROS 2024.
[Apr. 2024] One paper is accepted to ICARM 2024.
[Aug. 2023] Our paper about mobile manipulation is selected as finalist of the Best Conference Paper in ICMA 2023.
[Jun. 2023] Our paper about container unloading is selected as finalist of the Best Conference Paper in RCAR 2023.

Publications

* Equal contribution † Corresponding author

arXiv

Disentangling Task-Relevant Latent Dynamics for Reward Modeling

Dayou Li*, Jionghao Wang*, Peihao Wang, Jiuzhou Lei, Hao Wang, Jichen Chai, Hezhen Hu, Minghui Zheng, Zhangyang Wang, Xin Li, Wenping Wang, Zhiwen Fan†

Project Page PDF

arXiv

TouchScale: 500 Hours of Human Vision and Touch for Visual-Tactile Learning

Dayou Li*, Hao Wang*, Qianqian Yang*, Zihao Zhu*, Haoquan Fang, Ziyao Zeng, Yan Han, Zihan Wang, Yan Wang, Baoru Huang, Dilin Wang, Kenji Shimada, Yiyue Luo, Manling Li, Teresa Lv, Mustafa Mukadam, Rakesh Ranjan, Ruohan Zhang, Qi He, Changliu Liu, Xu Chen, Marco Pavone, Bangya Liu, Jiachen Li, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Zhiwen Fan†

Project Page PDF

CVPR Findings

EgoTL: Egocentric Think-Aloud Chains for Long-Horizon Tasks

Lulin Liu*, Dayou Li*, Yiqing Liang, Sicong Jiang, Hitesh Vijay, Hezhen Hu, Xuhai Xu, Zirui Liu, Srinivas Shakkottai, Manling Li, Zhiwen Fan†

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Findings (CVPR Findings), 2026.

Project Page PDF

ECCV

Egocentric World Model for Photorealistic Hand-Object Interaction Synthesis

Dayou Li*, Lulin Liu*, Bangya Liu, Shijie Zhou, Jiu Feng, Ziqi Lu, Minghui Zheng, Chenyu You, Zhiwen Fan†

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026.

Project Page PDF

arXiv

Learning Actionable Manipulation Recovery via Counterfactual Failure Synthesis

Dayou Li, Jiuzhou Lei, Hao Wang, Lulin Liu, Yunhao Yang, Zihan Wang, Bangya Liu, Minghui Zheng, Zhiwen Fan

Project Page PDF

arXiv

RoboIRS: Inference-Time Internal Representation Steering for Generalist Robot Policies

Jiuzhou Lei, Chang Liu, Dayou Li, Zhiyuan Zhang, Xiao Liang, Yu She, Zhiwen Fan, Minghui Zheng

Project Page PDF

CoRL

Behavior Uncloning: Distilling Mode Redirection into Policy Weights without Inference-Time Steering

Hao Wang, Jiuzhou Lei, Dayou Li, Bangya Liu, Minghui Zheng, Manling Li, Ruohan Zhang, Zhiwen Fan

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026.

Project Page PDF

IROS

Accelerating Transformer-Based Monocular SLAM via Geometric Utility Scoring

Xinmiao Xiong, Bangya Liu, Hao Wang, Dayou Li, Nuo Chen, Andrew Feng, Mingyu Ding, Suman Banerjee, Yang Zhou, Zhiwen Fan

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

Project Page PDF

Services

Conference Reviewers

Journal Reviewers

Honors and Contests

Second Prize, National Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (China), 2021
Merit Student Scholarship, Northeast Agricultural University (2 times), 2019-2022
Second Prize, National Mathematics Competition (China), 2021
IEEE RCAR Best Conference Paper Award (Finalist), 2023
IEEE ICMA Best Conference Paper Award (Finalist), 2023
Academic Scholarship, Shandong University (2 times), 2022-2024
Bronze Award, China International College Student Innovation Competition (SDU), 2024

Powered by Jekyll and Minimal Light theme.