Kaichen Zhou

Postdoctoral Researcher · MIT Media Lab & Harvard Medical School

Cambridge, MA, USA

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Kaichen Zhou

I conduct postdoctoral research at Harvard University and the MIT Media Lab under the joint supervision of Paul Liang, Yilun Du, and Mengyu Wang. I am currently visiting the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab (SVL) at Stanford University, where I work with Jiajun Wu.

Previously, I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Prof. Niki Trigoni and Prof. Andrew Markham, and graduated with First Class Honours (Top 10%) from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, where I worked with Prof. Yike Guo.

If you are interested in my research, please feel free to reach out via email — I am always happy to chat and collaborate.

Research

I build models that understand, predict, and act in the dynamic 3D world.

Physical World
Understanding

Recovering geometry, motion, and spatial relationships from sensory observations to understand changing physical environments.

Physical World
Prediction

Developing world models that retain scene knowledge and use geometric constraints to generate coherent, physically plausible futures.

Physical World
Interaction

Enabling robots to learn from multimodal feedback and execution experience, correct errors, and adapt their behavior through interaction.

Recent Work

See my Google Scholar for the full list.

More Publications

Awards

CoRL 2026 Spotlight, Learn@Deploy Workshop [SteerAct]
ECCV 2026 Best Paper Finalist, OpenSUN3D Workshop [Stream3D]
CVPR 2026 Best Paper Award Finalist, GCV Workshop [RISE]
CVPR 2026 Best Paper Finalist, WMAS Workshop ($1,500) [GEM-4D]
ACM MobiSys 2025 Best Paper Nominee [mmNorm]
IROS 2024 Finalist, Best Application Paper Award [SCANet]
IROS 2024 Excellent Practice Award, EDM Workshop [GenRob]
Smartathon 2023 2nd place out of ~5,000 participants
AWS Lighthouse Scholarship 2020 Fully funded Oxford DPhil Program [News]

Activities

ICLR 2028 Area Chair
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop — Physical World AI (Main Organizer) [Website]
CVPR 2026 Workshop — Sense of Space [Website]
UbiComp 2026 Publicity Chair

Students

Wonderful students I work with / have worked with.

Advaith Ravishankar Harvard, Master
Yuzhen Chen Harvard, Master
Yuhan Wang Imperial College London, Master
Xinhai Chang PKU, Undergraduate
Zeyang Bai HKUST, Research Intern
Bashar Kabbarah UCB, Undergraduate
Jack Wei Lun Shi NUS, PhD
Iliass Khoutaibi ENS Paris-Saclay, Master
Xuge Guo Columbia, Master
Wanglin He Columbia, Master
Jixian Wu NYU
Ziteng Wang UC San Diego, PhD
Minda Zhao Harvard, Master
Yue Ma HKUST, PhD
Xuan Qi University of Washington, PhD
Yibo Cheng MIT, Undergraduate