I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Hong Kong, working with Prof. Hengshuang Zhao. I received my Ph.D. from the School of Electronic Information and Communications at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, supervised by Prof. Xiang Bai.
My research studies embodied intelligence systems that connect spatial perception, multimodal reasoning, world modeling, and executable actions. I have worked on autonomous driving and 3D perception for eight years, with recent focus moving toward Embodied AI, Vision-Language-Action models, 4D MLLMs, and 4D world models. I have published 30+ papers in venues including TPAMI, TIP, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, AAAI, TITS, and ICRA. As of June 2026, Google Scholar reports 2,283 citations, an h-index of 16, and an i10-index of 16.
3D Perception
LiDAR, multi-view, multi-modal fusion, detection, tracking, occupancy, prediction, and planning.
Embodied AI
Embodied data engines, spatial intelligence, robotic learning, and cross-embodiment generalization.
VLA / World-Action Models
Vision-language-action models, world-action models, VLN, streaming policies, and efficient real-time inference.
4D World Models
4D occupancy, physics-aware simulation, virtual evaluation, policy learning, and sim-to-real transfer.
Research Vision
My long-term goal is to build general-purpose embodied intelligence systems that integrate data, models, simulation, evaluation, and deployment. The current blueprint is organized around embodied data engines, embodied foundation models, 4D world models and simulation, efficient streaming inference, and an intelligent robotic OS for manipulation, navigation, autonomous driving, and cross-embodiment deployment.
News
- May 2026: MCNav and AlphaGRPO are released.
- Mar 2026: FASTER and ACE-Brain-0 are released.
- Feb 2026: DrivePI and GenieDrive are accepted by CVPR 2026.
- Dec 2025: DrivePI and GenieDrive are released.
- Nov 2025: UniLION and Visual Spatial Tuning are released.
- Nov 2025: Invited to give a talk at Huawei Yinwang Intelligent Technology, with over 100 researchers attending.
- Sep 2024: LION is accepted by NeurIPS 2024.
- Jul 2024: SEED and OPEN are accepted by ECCV 2024.
- Sep 2023: QTNet is accepted by NeurIPS 2023.
- Nov 2022: StereoDistill is accepted by AAAI 2023 and EPNet++ is accepted by TPAMI.
- Nov 2019: TANet is accepted by AAAI 2020 as an oral presentation.
Publications
*: Equal contribution, +: Corresponding Author, †: Project Leader.
arXiv 2026
Jingyu Li*, Zhe Liu*, Wenxiao Wu, Li Zhang
arXiv preprint, 2026.
ICML 2026
Runhui Huang, Jie Wu, Rui Yang, Zhe Liu, Hengshuang Zhao
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026.
arXiv 2026
Yuxiang Lu, Zhe Liu†, Xianzhe Fan, Zhenya Yang, Jinghua Hou, Junyi Li, Kaixin Ding, Hengshuang Zhao
arXiv preprint, 2026.
arXiv 2026
Ziyang Gong*, Zehang Luo*, Anke Tang*, Zhe Liu*, Shi Fu, Zhi Hou, Ganlin Yang, Weiyun Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Jianbo Liu, et al.
arXiv preprint, 2026.
CVPR 2026
Zhenya Yang, Zhe Liu†, Yuxiang Lu, Liping Hou, Chenxuan Miao, Siyi Peng, Bailan Feng, Xiang Bai, Hengshuang Zhao+
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
CVPR 2026
Zhe Liu, Runhui Huang, Rui Yang, Siming Yan, Zining Wang, Lu Hou, Di Lin, Xiang Bai, Hengshuang Zhao+
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
ICRA 2026
Jingyu Li, Xiaolong Zhao, Zhe Liu, Wenxiao Wu, Li Zhang
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026.
arXiv 2025
Rui Yang, Ziyu Zhu, Yanwei Li, Jingjia Huang, Shen Yan, Siyuan Zhou, Zhe Liu, Xiangtai Li, Shuangye Li, Wenqian Wang, Yi Lin, Hengshuang Zhao
arXiv preprint, 2025.
arXiv 2025
Zhe Liu, Jinghua Hou, Xiaoqing Ye, Jingdong Wang, Hengshuang Zhao+, Xiang Bai+
arXiv preprint, 2025.
ICCV 2025
Zhichuan Wang, Yang Zhou, Zhe Liu, Rui Yu, Song Bai, Yulong Wang, Xinwei He, Xiang Bai
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.
IROS 2025
Xinyu Wang, Jinghua Hou, Zhe Liu, Yingying Zhu
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.
NeurIPS 2024
Zhe Liu*, Jinghua Hou*, Xingyu Wang, Xiaoqing Ye, Jingdong Wang, Hengshuang Zhao, Xiang Bai
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
ECCV 2024
Zhe Liu*, Jinghua Hou*, Xiaoqing Ye, Tong Wang, Jingdong Wang, Xiang Bai
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
ECCV 2024
Jinghua Hou, Tong Wang, Xiaoqing Ye, Zhe Liu, Shi Gong, Xiao Tan, Errui Ding, Jingdong Wang, Xiang Bai
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024.
TITS 2024
Zhe Liu, Xiaoqing Ye, Zhikang Zou, Xinwei He, Xiao Tan, Errui Ding, Jingdong Wang, Xiang Bai
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), 2024.
NeurIPS 2023
Jinghua Hou*, Zhe Liu*, Dingkang Liang, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiang Bai
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023.
ICCV 2023
Dingyuan Zhang*, Dingkang Liang*, Zhikang Zou*, Jingyu Li, Xiaoqing Ye, Zhe Liu, Xiao Tan, Xiang Bai
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023.
ICRA 2023
Jingyu Li*, Zhe Liu*, Jinghua Hou, Dingkang Liang
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.
AAAI 2023
Zhe Liu, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiao Tan, Errui Ding, Xiang Bai
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023.
TPAMI 2022
Zhe Liu, Tengteng Huang, Bingling Li, Xiwu Chen, Xi Wang, Xiang Bai
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), 2022.
ECCV 2020
Tengteng Huang*, Zhe Liu*, Xiwu Chen, Xiang Bai
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.
AAAI 2020
Zhe Liu, Xin Zhao, Tengteng Huang, Ruolan Hu, Yu Zhou, Xiang Bai
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020. Oral presentation.
AAAI 2019
Xin Zhao, Zhe Liu+, Ruolan Hu, Kaiqi Huang
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019.
Professional Service
- Conference Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, ICRA, ICASSP, ACM Multimedia Asia.
- Journal Reviewer: TPAMI, TIP, TCSVT, TITS, RA-L, SCIS, TGRS.
- Invited Talks: Machine Intelligence, Midea Research Institute, 3D CVer, Shuzihuanyu, The Heart of Autonomous Driving, and Huawei Yinwang Intelligent Technology.
