Ziyu Zhu

I am a Ph.D. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Danfei Xu. I received my B.S. degree in Computer Science from Peking University and previously conducted research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with Prof. Shenlong Wang.

My research interest lies in robotics and computer vision, with the goal of enabling robots to perform dextrous tasks with adaptability, generalizability and safety.


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Selected Publications      (* denotes equal contribution)
DexGarmentLab: Dexterous Garment Manipulation Environment with Generalizable Policy
Yuran Wang*, Ruihai Wu*, Yue Chen*, Jiarui Wang, Jiaqi Liang, Ziyu Zhu, Haoran Geng, Pieter Abbeel, Jitendra Malik, Hao Dong
NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight
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We introduce DexGarmentLab, a realistic sim environment for bimanual dexterous garment manipulation. Based on this environment, we propose a new benchmark, an efficient data collection pipeline, and a novel policy framework that uses category-level visual correspondences for few-shot garment manipulation.

GarmentPile: Point-Level Visual Affordance Guided Retrieval and Adaptation for Cluttered Garments Manipulation
Ruihai Wu*, Ziyu Zhu*, Yuran Wang*, Yue Chen, Jiarui Wang, Hao Dong
CVPR 2025
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We propose to learn point-level affordance to model the complex space and multi-modal manipulation candidates of garment piles, with novel designs for the awareness of garment geometry, structure, inter-object relations, and further adaptation.

GarmentLab: A Unified Simulation and Benchmark for Garment Manipulation
Haoran Lu*, Ruihai Wu*, Yitong Li*, Sijie Li, Ziyu Zhu, Chuanruo Ning, Yan Shen, Longzan Luo, Yuanpei Chen, Hao Dong
NeurIPS 2024
Spotlight Presentation at ICRA 2024 Workshop on Deformable Object Manipulation
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We present GarmentLab, a benchmark designed for garment manipulation within realistic 3D indoor scenes. Our benchmark encompasses a diverse range of garment types, robotic systems and manipulators including dexterous hands. The multitude of tasks included in the benchmark enables further exploration of the interactions between garments, deformable objects, rigid bodies, fluids, and avatars.

Honors and Awards
Huawei Scholarship (School-level), Peking University, 2025
Merit Student Award, Peking University, 2025
Experience
Georgia Tech logo Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)
2026.8 - Present
Ph.D. Student
Advisor: Danfei Xu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
2025.6 - 2026.5
Research Intern
Research Advisor: Shenlong Wang
Peking University (PKU)
2022.9 - 2026.7
B.S. in Computer Science
Major: Computer Science (CS)

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