Wentao Zhu

Wentao Zhu朱文韬

Wentao Zhu is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, starting Fall 2025. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, supervising doctoral students through joint-degree programs. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science (2025) from Peking University, advised by Prof. Yizhou Wang, where he also earned dual Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Economics (2020).

Research

My research primarily focuses on building Human-aware AI systems that can perceive, understand, and interact with human beings. My long-term goal is to create collaborative, embodied agents that seamlessly integrate with human activities in real-world scenarios, such as home living and healthcare.

Join us

We are recruiting self-motivated PhD students (2027 Fall), research interns, and visiting students in 3D Vision, Embodied AI, and Foundation Models. If you're passionate about these areas, feel free to reach out! Find more details here.

News

Publications

Technical Report 2026

Thea: Towards the Harness of Embodied Agents

Qi Wang*, Tianyi Wang*, Chengyang Li*, Shikun Ban, Yurun Chen, Yizhong Ge, Jason Qin, Chengtai Li*, Wentao Zhu*
PaperCodeProjectVideo
CoRL 2026

GazeVLA: Learning Human Intention for Robotic Manipulation

Chengyang Li*, Kaiyi Xiong*, Yuan Xu, Lei Qian, Yizhou Wang, Wentao Zhu
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CoRL 2026

Semantic Anchoring for Robotic Action Representations

Yuan Xu*, Youheng Shi*, Chengyang Li, Wentao Zhu, Yizhou Wang
PaperCodeProjectVideo
ICCV 2025

Embodied Representation Alignment with Mirror Neurons

Wentao Zhu, Zhining Zhang, Yuwei Ren, Yin Huang, Hao Xu, Yizhou Wang
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ICML 2024

Language Models Represent Beliefs of Self and Others

Wentao Zhu, Zhining Zhang, Yizhou Wang
PaperCodeProject
NeurIPS 2023

Social Motion Prediction with Cognitive Hierarchies

Wentao Zhu*, Jason Qin*, Yuke Lou, Hang Ye, Xiaoxuan Ma, Hai Ci, Yizhou Wang
PaperCodeProjectVideo
ICCV 2023

MotionBERT: A Unified Perspective on Learning Human Motion Representations

Wentao Zhu, Xiaoxuan Ma, Zhaoyang Liu, Libin Liu, Wayne Wu, Yizhou Wang
PaperCodeProjectVideo

Services

Area Chair

NeurIPS (2025-)

Reviewer / PC Member

Conference: CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICLR, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, IEEE VR, SIGGRAPH Asia, ACL

Journal: IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, ACM TOG, IEEE TVCG, IEEE TIP, ACM Computing Surveys

Workshop Organization

The 1st Workshop on Humanoid Agents @ CVPR 2025

Populating Empty Cities @ CVPR 2024

I am fortunate enough to have worked with these brilliant undergraduate interns (ordered by year and last name):