Weiyu Zhao

About Me

Hi! I am Weiyu Zhao, a Ph.D. student in the School of Computer Science at Harbin Institute of Technology . I am advised by Prof. Shengping Zhang and Assoc. Prof. Shaohui Liu. I received my Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Management and Information Systems from Hefei University of Technology . My research focuses on embodied intelligence, especially learning robot manipulation from human videos, audio and text-driven motion synthesis, and mobile manipulation.

Beyond research, I am a loyal supporter of Shandong Taishan FC. Shandong Taishan FC logo

Background

Publications

QueryMe project teaser

QueryMe: Query-Driven Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Affordances Grounding from Multimodal Evidence

Weiyu Zhao, Ru Li, Jiaqi Liu, Sizhe Zhao, Qinglin Liu, Shengping Zhang†

CVPR 2026

TapSampling framework teaser

TapSampling: Inference-Time Sampling with a Task-Progress-Understanding Verifier for Robotic Manipulation

Sizhe Zhao, Shengping Zhang†, Shuo Yang, Weiyu Zhao, Shuigen Wang, Xiangyang Ji

ICML 2026

DialoGen project teaser

DialoGen: Towards Dialog Gesture Generation via Identity-Decoupled Style Guidance in Interactive Diffusion Model

Weiyu Zhao, Chenyang Wang†, Liangxiao Hu, Zonglin Li, Wei Yu, Shengping Zhang

AAAI 2026 (Oral)

REA-Listener project teaser

REA-Listener: Real-Time Listening Head Generation with Dynamic Emotion Modeling and Flexible Modality Adaptation

Sizhe Zhao*, Chenyang Wang*, Weiyu Zhao, Zonglin Li, Ming Li, Shengping Zhang†

ACM MM 2025