Haoyu Zhou
Robot learning · Continual world models

Haoyu Zhou

周淏宇
Portrait of Haoyu Zhou
Position
DPhil Student, Robotics
Affiliation
Applied AI Lab, University of Oxford
Location
Oxford, United Kingdom
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01About

I am a first-year DPhil student at the Applied Artificial Intelligence Lab, University of Oxford. My research is in robot learning for general-purpose manipulation. I focus on world models that keep learning over time in a modular, compositional way.

Before Oxford, I earned an MSc in Robotics from the National University of Singapore, working with Professor Lin Shao, and a BEng in Robotics Engineering from Beihang University. Feel free to get in touch about any of my projects.

02News

  1. Our paper “Benchmarking World Models for Continual Learning on Compositional Tasks” was accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 Continual World Models Workshop. See you in Sydney!
  2. “Benchmarking World Models for Continual Learning on Compositional Tasks” is now on arXiv and under review for ICRA 2027.
  3. “ManiFoundation Model for General-Purpose Robotic Manipulation of Contact Synthesis with Arbitrary Objects and Robots” was accepted to IROS 2024 as an oral presentation.
  4. “Generalizable Long-Horizon Manipulations with Large Language Models” is on arXiv.
  5. “ClothesNet: An Information-Rich 3D Garment Model Repository with Simulated Clothes Environment” was accepted to ICCV 2023.

03Publications

04Projects

012024
Prompt-Learning in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robot Manipulation — A Step Towards Continual Learning

2024.09 – 2024.12

Prompt-Learning in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robot Manipulation — A Step Towards Continual Learning

NUS ME5400B course project

Supervisor: Lin Shao. Advisors: Chongkai Gao, Zixuan Liu

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05Honours & Awards

  1. NUS Graduate Honours (Highest Distinction)
    National University of Singapore
  2. Outstanding Graduate
    Beihang University
  3. AUBO Robotics Scholarship, Second Class
    AUBO Robotics
  4. National First Prize
    National ROBOCON Competition 2022
  5. Mabuchi Special Prize
    ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest 2021
  6. Meritorious Winner
    Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2021

06Education

  1. DPhil (PhD) in Robotics
    University of Oxford
  2. MSc in Robotics
    National University of Singapore
  3. BEng in Robotics Engineering
    Beihang University