Ze Fu

PhD Student in Robot Learning

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I am currently a Ph.D. student at KU Leuven, supervised by Prof. Renaud Detry.

Before that, I was an algorithm engineer at Baidu Intelligent Driving Group (IDG), responsible for Apollo Navigation Pilot (ANP) of Jiyue.

I got my master’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2024, supervised by Prof. Weizhong Guo, and my bachelor’s degree from Xi’an Jiao Tong University in 2021.

My recent research centers on robotic manipulation, with a particular focus on data-efficient robot learning, vision-language-action (VLA) models, and interactive decision-making. Driven by the long-term vision of general-purpose embodied intelligence, I aim to develop robotic systems that can understand physical interactions, learn and generalize across real-world tasks rapidly.

The following are my current research interests.

  • Robot Manipulation & Few-Shot Imitation Learning
  • Foundation Models for Robotics
  • Interactive Decision-Making
  • Autonomous Driving

News

Sep 4, 2026 Our paper Foci Policy: Focus on Object-Centric Interactions for Relational Manipulation Policies has been accepted to CoRL 2026.
Jun 17, 2026 Our paper TASC: Task-Aware Shared Control for Relational Telemanipulation has been accepted to IROS 2026.
Jan 11, 2025 🎉 I will go to Leuven in February 2025 and start my PhD research! Farewell and thank you, Baidu IDG!
Jun 30, 2024 🎓 I’ve got my Master’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University!
Oct 1, 2019 I have been selected as a model student at Xi'an Jiaotong University (ten only).

Selected Publications

2026

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    Foci Policy: Focus on Object-Centric Interactions for Relational Manipulation Policies
    Ze Fu, Pinhao Song, Yutong Hu, and 1 more author
    In Conference on Robot Learning, 2026
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    TASC: Task-Aware Shared Control for Relational Telemanipulation
    Ze Fu, Pinhao Song, Yutong Hu, and 1 more author
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2026

2023

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    TrafficMCTS: A Closed-Loop Traffic Flow Generation Framework with Group-Based Monte Carlo Tree Search
    Ze Fu*, Licheng Wen*, Pinlong Cai, and 3 more authors
    2023