About
I am a PhD student at HKUST(GZ), advised by Prof. Renjing Xu and Prof. Haoang Li. I conduct research on dexterous robot manipulation and embodied intelligence at the Human Computing Lab.
Previously, I obtained my M.Sc. from Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), advised by Prof. Xiaogang Xiong, focusing on robotic visual-tactile perception and reinforcement learning. I received my B.Eng. from Sichuan University (Elite Engineer Program, ranked 2/117).
I interned at NVIDIA's China Robotics Team exploring tactile sensing and VLA for robot manipulation, and at Sony R&D Center China as a reinforcement learning simulation engineer, where I open-sourced the IsaacLab.manipulation framework.
My research interests include dexterous robot manipulation, visual-tactile perception, embodied AI foundation models, and sim-to-real transfer for humanoid robots.
Selected Publications
View All →Tabero: Learning Gentle Manipulation with Closed-Loop Force Feedback from Vision, Touch, and Language
Qiwei Wu, Rui Zhang, Xin Xiang, Junjie Lai, Renjing Xu
Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
First author
Iterative Closed-Loop Motion Synthesis for Scaling the Capabilities of Humanoid Control
Weisheng Xu†, Qiwei Wu†, Jing Tan†, Renjing Xu
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Co-first author (*equal contribution)
Gentle Manipulation Policy Learning via Demonstrations from VLM-Planned Atomic Skills
Jiayu Zhou†, Qiwei Wu†, Jian Li, Xiaogang Xiong, Renjing Xu
Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Oral presentation (Top 5%). Co-first author (*equal contribution)
Tactile Affordance in Robot Synesthesia for Dextrous Manipulation
Qiwei Wu, Haidong Wang, Jiayu Zhou, Xiaogang Xiong
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
First author. JCR Q1 Top
Rapid Tactile Transfer Framework for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks
Qiwei Wu, Xuanbing Peng, Jiayu Zhou, Xiaogang Xiong
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
First author
News
Won ICRA WBCD Bimanual Manipulation Challenge in Vienna 🏆
Tabero accepted at ICML 2026 (first author)
Paper on humanoid control accepted at CVPR 2026 (co-first author)
Paper accepted at AAAI 2026 as Oral (Top 5%) (co-first author)
Joined NVIDIA China Robotics Team as VLA research intern
Started PhD at HKUST(GZ) with Prof. Renjing Xu and Prof. Haoang Li
Rapid Tactile Transfer paper accepted at IROS 2024 (first author)
Joined Sony R&D Center China as RL simulation engineer