I am a final-year undergraduate student in the School of Electronic Information at Wuhan University. Previously, I have worked as a research intern at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University, working with Prof. Yang Gao. Currently, I am a research intern at the HMI Lab, Peking University, School of Computer Science and the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI), working with Prof. Shanghang Zhang.

My research interests broadly span embodied intelligence, robotics, and world models.

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

Experience

2022.9 - Present

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 teaser

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
TwinRL teaser

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†
In Submission
ArXiv
Video2Act teaser

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
ADUGS-VINS teaser

ADUGS-VINS: Generalized Visual-Inertial Odometry for Robust Navigation in Highly Dynamic and Complex Environments

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

Projects

Open Source
Quest3 Teleop preview

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.

Honors & Awards

  • 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