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
- 2025/6/11: 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
- 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
- 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
Under Review
Services
Conference
- SIGGRAPH 2024, SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
- NeurIPS 2023, 2024, 2025
- AAAI 2025
- IROS 2023
- ICLR 2024, 2025
- AISTATS 2025
Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics
- International Journal of Robotics Research
- SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
- Elsevier Journal of Information Sciences
- 自动化学报