Jinzhou Li

I am a PhD student in Robotics at Duke University, advised by Prof. Xianyi Cheng.


Previously, I worked with Prof. Hao Dong at Peking University and spent time as a research intern at AgiBot. I also had the opportunity to work with Prof. Maha Haji at Cornell and Prof. Daniel Hastings at MIT.


My research interests include dexterous manipulation, representation learning, and reinforcement learning to enable robots to act and think like humans.


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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
Under review

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
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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
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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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2025

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

Presented "3DTacDex" at ICRA 2025

Presented "AdapTac-Dex" at Peking University

One paper accepted to ICRA 2025

2024

One paper accepted to ROMAN 2024

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

Reviewer: ICRA 2024, 2025, 2026; RSS 2025