About Me
I am Hang Zhao （赵航）, currently a postdoctoral researcher at Wuhan University, working in collaboration with Professor Kai Xu from NUDT. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2025 from NUDT, under the supervision of Professor Kai Xu. Upon the recommendation of Professor Xin Xu, I served as a visiting researcher in LAMDA group led by Professor Zhi-Hua Zhou at Nanjing University, under the guidance of Professor Yang Yu, from June 2021 to March 2024. Prior to my doctoral studies, I completed my Bachelor’s degree at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT).
We are hiring PhD, Msc, and visiting students in embodied intelligence. Our group is research-driven, offering active academic mentoring, ample computational resources, and a focus on valuable, exciting research topics. Students working with us have published in top-tier venues such as SIGGRAPH and RSS, or received perfect review scores for their papers. If you are interested, please drop me an email at hangzhao@whu.edu.cn, alexfrom0815@gmail.com (WeChat: alex_hang_zhao).
Research Interests
Industrial Embodied Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Combinatorial Optimization
News
- 2025/11/25: 获中国博士后科学基金第78批面上资助.
- 2025/10/13: 获湖北省博士后尖端人才引进项目资助.
- 2025/9/15: Our intelligent assembly system for automobile doors has been successfully accepted and deployed on the SERES AITO M8 production line, with the order exceeding 10 million RMB! （我们的汽车门盖智能装调系统已顺利验收并成功部署于赛力斯问界 M8 生产线，订单金额超过1000万元人民币！）
- 2025/8/28: 获国自然青年科学基金项目（C类）资助.
- 2025/8/25: Our work on the industrial packing robot has been accepted by IJRR! The system has successfully passed acceptance testing at the Deli Smart Logistics Park. The corresponding order exceeds 10 million RMB! （我们的工业码垛具身智能机器人研究成果已被机器人领域顶级期刊 IJRR录用！该系统已在得力智慧物流园顺利验收，订单金额超过1000万元人民币！）
- 2025/6/11: I am honored as Outstanding Graduate of Hunan Province.
- 2025/6/7: 获人社部“博新计划”资助.
- 2025/4/30: Our paper “Learning Practically Feasible Policies for Online 3D Bin Packing” is selected as an Outstanding Paper of the Year (Two-Year Hot Paper) by Science China Information Sciences.
- 2024/4/21: We are honored with the Outstanding Poster Award at China3DV, ranking first among 100 participants.
- 2023/12/1: I am awarded with National Scholarship for Ph.D. students.
- 2023/8/11: The code we published has been nominated for the Outstanding Graphics Open Source Project of 2023 by the Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics (CAD&CG) Technical Committee of the China Computer Federation (CCF).
- 2023/5/20: Our paper for irregular object packing has been accepted by ACM TOG!
- 2022/2/27: The code of our ICLR work has been released now, all kinds of feedback and any contribution is welcome!
- 2022/2/25: I am awarded Lingdi Scholarship of 30,000 yuan.
- 2022/1/21: The work on continuous domain packing has been accepted at ICLR 2022! I independently completed this project as a student, and I genuinely take pride in the recognition it has received.
- 2019/6/1: I am honored as Outstanding Graduate of Beijing.
- 2018/11/1: I am awarded with National Scholarship for undergraduate students.
Publications
- DISCO: Efficient Diffusion Solver for Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems [Paper]
- Hang Zhao, Kexiong Yu, Yuhang Huang, Renjiao Yi, Chenyang Zhu, Kai Xu
- Graphical Models, 2025
- CAD/Graphics Best Paper, CCF Distinguished Paper
- PIN-WM: Learning Physics-INformed World Models for Non-Prehensile Manipulation [Paper]
- Wenxuan Li, Hang Zhao*, Zhiyuan Yu, Yu Du, Qin Zou, Ruizhen Hu, Kai Xu
- Robotics: Science and Systems, 2025
- Designing Pin-pression Gripper and Learning its Dexterous Grasping with Online In-hand Adjustment [Paper]
- Hewen Xiao, Xiuping Liu, Hang Zhao*, Jian Liu, Kai Xu
- SIGGRAPH, 2025
- Deep Demonstration Tracing: Learning Generalizable Imitator Policy for Runtime Imitation from a Single Demonstration [Paper]
- Xiong-Hui Chen, Junyin Ye, Hang Zhao*, Yi-Chen Li, Xu-Hui Liu, Haoran Shi, Yu-Yan Xu, Zhihao Ye, Si-Hang Yang, Yang Yu, Anqi Huang, Kai Xu, Zongzhang Zhang
- International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024
- Learning Physically Realizable Skills for Online Packing of General 3D Shapes [Paper • Code • Video]
- Hang Zhao, Zherong Pan, Yang Yu, Kai Xu
- ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2023 (presented at SIGGRAPH 2024)
- Learning Efficient Online 3D Bin Packing on Packing Configuration Trees [Paper • Code • Video]
- Hang Zhao, Qijin She, Chenyang Zhu, Yin Yang, Kai Xu
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021
- Active scene understanding via online semantic reconstruction [Paper]
- Lintao Zheng, Chenyang Zhu, Jiazhao Zhang, Hang Zhao, Hui Huang, Matthias Niessner, Kai Xu
- Computer Graphics Forum, 2019
Services
Conference
- SIGGRAPH 2024, SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
- NeurIPS 2023, 2024, 2025
- ICLR 2024, 2025
- AAAI 2025，2026
- AISTATS 2025，2026
- IROS 2023
Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics
- International Journal of Robotics Research
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
- IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
- SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- Frontiers of Computer Science
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
- Elsevier Journal of Information Sciences
- 自动化学报