Hang Zhao
Assistant Professor
Works on computer vision, multimodal machine learning, autonomous driving, and robotics.
Hang Zhao's lab at Tsinghua works on embodied & active vision, vision-language & multimodal and multimodal & grounded language. 76 papers since 2023, 65 at top venues, mostly CoRL and ICRA. 14 PhD students and 2 master's students. 4 alumni, most often to Huawei and Moonshot AI. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 20/ year
- at T1 venues
- 86%
- PhD students
- 14
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 4
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 24 papers2026 · T1 23 · collecting
- 21 papers2025 · T1 18
- 11 papers2024 · T1 9
- 20 papers2023 · T1 15
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CoRL, ICRA, IROS, CVPR, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Embodied & active vision11 papers
- Vision-language & multimodal11 papers
- Multimodal & grounded language9 papers
- multimodal machine0 papers
- interdisciplinary information0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202624 papers
- CoRL (T1)ActionCodec: What Makes for Good Action Tokenizers (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Coarse-to-Control: Action-Token Planning for Vision-Language-Action Models (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Complet4R: Geometric Complete 4D Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)DepthVLA: Enhancing Vision-Language-Action Models with Depth-Aware Spatial Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)DexNinja: Learning Robust Dexterous Cutting Policy with a Real-to-Sim-to-Real Data Engine (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Dexora: Open-Source VLA for High-DoF Bimanual Dexterity (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Discrete Diffusion for Reflective Vision-Language-Action Models in Autonomous Driving (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)DriveAgent-R1: Advancing VLM-based Autonomous Driving with Active Perception and Hybrid Thinking (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)DriveMA: Driving Vision-Language-Action Models with Verifiable Meta-Actions (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Echo in the Steps: Learning Perceptive Humanoid Parkour with Gated Memory (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Fast-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Test-time Future Imagination? (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)FASTer: Toward Efficient Autoregressive Vision Language Action Modeling via Neural Action Tokenization (opens in a new tab)
202521 papers
- ICRA (T1)Chameleon: Fast-Slow Neuro-Symbolic Lane Topology Extraction (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Conditioning Matters: Training Diffusion Policies is Faster Than You Think (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)CRUISE: Cooperative Reconstruction and Editing in V2X Scenarios Using Gaussian Splatting (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Delving into Mapping Uncertainty for Mapless Trajectory Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Diffusion-Based Generative Models for 3D Occupancy Prediction in Autonomous Driving
- CoRL (T1)Embrace Contacts: Humanoid Shadowing for Deployable Contact-Agnostics Motions (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Generalizing Motion Planners with Mixture of Experts for Autonomous Driving (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)GS-Occ3D: Scaling Vision-only Occupancy Reconstruction for Autonomous Driving with Gaussian Splatting (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Impromptu VLA: Open Weights and Open Data for Driving Vision-Language-Action Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)LONG3R: Long Sequence Streaming 3D Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)MoE-Loco: Mixture of Experts for Multitask Locomotion (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Morpheus: A Neural-driven Animatronic Face with Hybrid Actuation and Diverse Emotion Control
202411 papers
- Interspeech (T1)A Unit-based System and Dataset for Expressive Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation
- ICRA (T1)Boosting offline reinforcement learning for autonomous driving with hierarchical latent skills (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)CVT-Occ: Cost Volume Temporal Fusion for 3D Occupancy Prediction (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)DriveVLM: The Convergence of Autonomous Driving and Large Vision-Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Humanoid Parkour Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)LiDAR-Based 4D Occupancy Completion and Forecasting (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LP-mapnet: Far-seeing map generator enhanced by both sdmap and hdmap priors (opens in a new tab)
- ECCV (T1)PreSight: Enhancing Autonomous Vehicle Perception with City-Scale NeRF Priors (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)SSCBench: A Large-Scale 3D Semantic Scene Completion Benchmark for Autonomous Driving (opens in a new tab)
- WACVStreamMapNet: Streaming mapping network for vectorized online hd map construction (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Uncertainty-Aware Decision Transformer for Stochastic Driving Environments (opens in a new tab)
202320 papers
- CoRL (T1)A Universal Semantic-Geometric Representation for Robotic Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- LLM@IJCAIChatDB: Augmenting LLMs with Databases as Their Symbolic Memory (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Cross-dataset Sensor Alignment: Making Visual 3D Object Detector Generalize (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Diff-Foley: Synchronized Video-to-Audio Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)GeoMAE: Masked Geometric Target Prediction for Self-supervised Point Cloud Pre-Training (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)INT2: Interactive Trajectory Prediction at Intersections (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Neural Map Prior for Autonomous Driving (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Occ3D: A Large-Scale 3D Occupancy Prediction Benchmark for Autonomous Driving (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)On Uni-Modal Feature Learning in Supervised Multi-Modal Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)P4P: Conflict-Aware Motion Prediction for Planning in Autonomous Driving (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR Oral Top 25%Programmatically Grounded, Compositionally Generalizable Robotic Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)PVT++: A Simple End-to-End Latency-Aware Visual Tracking Framework (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went4 listed, 75% to industry
Industry 3Academia 1
Most often to
- Huawei
- Moonshot AI
- starting his own company
Also to
- University of Maryland
Apply to TsinghuaFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (international applicants)
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- Main
- Opens
- GRE
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- English
- Per school catalog
- Fee
- RMB 800
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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