Jinzhou Li

I am a Ph.D. student in Robotics at Duke University, advised by Prof. Xianyi Cheng. Before Duke, I worked with Prof. Hao Dong at Peking University. I completed my master's at Cornell University, advised by Prof. Maha Haji and Prof. Daniel Hastings, and earned my bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont. My research focuses on dexterous manipulation, tactile sensing, and reinforcement learning.

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News

06.2026

One paper accepted to ECCV 2026, and one paper accepted to IROS 2026.

05.2026

Joined Amazon Robotics as an Applied Scientist Intern in the Bay Area for summer 2026.

05.2026

Co-organized the Workshop on Manipulation Robustness at ICRA 2026.

12.2025

Released OpenTouch, a benchmark for full-hand tactile sensing in the wild.

Publications

* equal contribution

2026

ReDex: Repairing Sim-to-Real Dexterous Policies by Finger-Level Compliant Interaction

Jinzhou Li, Hadi Tabatabaee, Kelin Yu, Yuyin Sun, Cheng-Hao Kuo, Roberto Martín-Martín, Nima Fazeli, Alice Wu, Xianyi Cheng
Coming soon

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
arXiv 2026
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HiPolicy

HiPolicy: Hierarchical Multi-Frequency Action Chunking for Policy Learning

Jiyao Zhang, Zimu Han, Junhan Wang, Xionghao Wu, Shihong Lin, Jinzhou Li, Hongwei Fan, Ruihai Wu, Dongjiang Li, Hao Dong
ECCV 2026
Webpage  •   Paper

2025
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
arXiv 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
IROS 2025
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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
IROS 2025
Webpage  •   Paper   •   Code

clutterdexgrasping

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
CoRL 2025Oral
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3DTac-Dex

3DTac-Dex: 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
ICRA 2025
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Experience

Amazon Robotics

Applied Scientist Intern

2026

AgiBot

Research Intern

2025

Teaching

Fall 2026 ME 344L-002: Control of Dynamic Systems Teaching Assistant, Duke University
Fall 2023 CS 4782: Introduction to Deep Learning Teaching Assistant, Cornell University

Projects

A Python library for the Franka FR3 robot, supporting hybrid force control.

Service

Conference Reviewer: ICRA 2024, 2025, 2026; IROS 2026; NeurIPS 2026

Journal Reviewer: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

Workshop Organizer: Workshop on Manipulation Robustness at ICRA 2026

Students I Work With

Current

Anthony Zhang Undergraduate CS & EE Duke 2026 - now

Henry Bao Undergraduate ECE Duke 2026 - now

Zihan Zhuang Undergraduate Engineering Oxford 2026 - now

Past

Yuxiao Zhu Undergraduate CS Duke Summer 2026

Cody Andres Alessio-Bunnell Undergraduate ME Duke 2025 - 2026 Next → PhD UT Austin