Jinzhou Li

I am a first-year PhD student in Robotics at Duke University, advised by Prof. Xianyi Cheng. Before Duke, I worked with Prof. Hao Dong at Peking University. I did my master's at Cornell University, where I was advised by Prof. Maha Haji, and completed my bachelor's degree at the University of Vermont. I also had the chance to work with Prof. Daniel Hastings at MIT. My research interests focus on manipulation, multimodal learning, and robot learning, with the goal of enabling robots to act and think more like humans. I'm always happy to chat - Please feel free to drop me an email if you're interested in research, Ph.D. applications, potential collaborations, or research opportunities!


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opentouch

OpenTouch: Bringing Full-Hand Touch to Real-World Interaction

Yuxin Ray Song*, Jinzhou Li*, Rao Fu*, Devin Murphy, Kaichen Zhou, Rishi Shiv, Yaqi Li, Haoyu Xiong, Crystal Elaine Owens, Yilun Du, Yiyue Luo, Xianyi Cheng, Antonio Torralba, Wojciech Matusik, Paul Pu Liang
Technical Report
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Hierarchical-Multi-Frequency

Hierarchical Policy: Multi-Frequency Action Chunking across Hierarchical Temporal Resolutions for Robotic Imitation Learning

Jiyao Zhang, Zimu Han, Junhan Wang, Xionghao Wu, Shihong Lin, Jinzhou Li, Hongwei Fan, Ruihai Wu, Dongjiang Li, Hao Dong
Under Review

twinaligner

TwinAligner: Visual-Dynamic Alignment Empowers Physics-aware Real2Sim2Real for Robotic Manipulation

Hongwei Fan*, Hang Dai*, Jiyao Zhang*, Jinzhou Li, Qiyang Yan, Yujie Zhao, Mingju Gao, Jinghang Wu, Hao Tang, Hao Dong
Technical Report
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ClutterDexGrasp: A Sim-to-Real System for General Dexterous Target Grasping in Cluttered Scenes

Zeyuan Chen*, Qiyang Yan*, Yuanpei Chen*, Tianhao Wu, Jiyao Zhang, Zihan Ding, Jinzhou Li, Yaodong Yang, Hao Dong
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2025
Oral Presentation (~5% of total accepted papers)
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adaptac-dex

AdapTac-Dex: Adaptive Visuo-Tactile Fusion with Predictive Force Attention for Dexterous Manipulation

Jinzhou Li*, Tianhao Wu*, Jiyao Zhang**, Zeyuan Chen**, Haotian Jin, Mingdong Wu, Yujun Shen, Yaodong Yang, Hao Dong
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025
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SimLauncher: Launching Sample-Efficient Real-world Robotic Reinforcement Learning via Simulation Pre-training

Mingdong Wu*, Lehong Wu*, Yizhuo Wu*, Weiyao Huang, Hongwei Fan, Zheyuan Hu, Haoran Geng, Jinzhou Li, Jiahe Ying, Long Yang, Yuanpei Chen, Hao Dong
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2025
Webpage   •   Paper   •   Video

Canonical Representation and Force-Based Pretraining of 3D Tactile for Dexterous Visuo-Tactile Policy Learning

Tianhao Wu, Jinzhou Li*, Jiyao Zhang*, Mingdong Wu, Hao Dong
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025
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2026

Co-organize workshop on Robustness: Towards Human-Level Robustness under Real-World at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, Austria.

2025

We released OpenTouch, a benchmark for full-hand touch in the wild

We released TwinAligner, a physics-aware real2sim2real framework for robotic manipulation

Joined Duke University as a PhD student, advised by Prof. Xianyi Cheng

One paper accepted to CoRL 2025, selected for Oral Presentation

Invited talk at 3D Vision Workshop

Two papers accepted to IROS 2025 as oral presentations

Invited talk at Peking University about "AdapTac-Dex"

One paper accepted to ICRA 2025

2024

Joined Peking University as a visiting student, advised by Prof. Hao Dong

Reviewer: ICRA 2024, 2025, 2026