Shuai Zhou

I am a final-year undergraduate student in Robotics at SCUT, currently visting HKUST (Guangzhou) and working on robot foundation model with Wenxuan Song. Previously, I spent eight months at CMU working with Ding Zhao and Jiaoyang Li. Prior to that, I was at SJTU, working closely with Zhongqiang Ren and Sven Koenig.

I will continue my journey at CMU. I am always interested in building and deploying next-generation decision-making systems for robotics, pursuing two complementary directions: world action models or VLA frameworks for generalizable embodied reasoning, and the unification of classical control/planning with learned world abstractions for complex long-horizon tasks.

News

[Mar, 2026] Join HKUST(Guangzhou) IPRN Lab to work on robot foundation model.
[Aug, 2025] Join CMU Safe AI Lab to work on robot manipulation.
[Jun, 2025] Start my visiting at CMU Robotics Institute.
[May, 2025] LSRP* is accepted to SoCS 2025.
[Apr, 2025] Join CMU ARCS Lab to work on learning for planning.
[Dec, 2024] LSRP is accepted to AAAI 2025.
[Apr, 2024] Join SJTU RAP Lab to work on path planning.
[Aug, 2023] Start my exchange at UC Berkeley.

Selected Publications

* denotes equal contribution; only first and co-first authored papers are listed

	LAMP: Long-Horizon Adaptive Manipulation Planning for Multi-Robot Collaboration in Cluttered Space Shuai Zhou, Yorai Shaoul, Jiaoyang Li Under Review website \| video
	Learning Versatile Humanoid Manipulation with Touch Dreaming Yaru Niu, Zhenlong Fang, Binghong Chen, Shuai Zhou, Revanth Krishna Senthilkumaran, Hao Zhang, Bingqing Chen, Chen Qiu, Hongtei (Eric) Tseng, Jonathan Francis, Ding Zhao. Under Review website
	Bridging Planning and Execution: Multi-Agent Path Finding Under Real World Deadlines Jingtian Yan, Shuai Zhou, Stephen Smith, Jiaoyang Li Under Review paper
	LSRP: Scalable and Anytime Planning for Multi-Agent Path Finding with Asynchronous Actions Shuai Zhou*, Shizhe Zhao, Zhongqiang Ren International Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS), 2025 paper \| website
	Loosely Synchronized Rule-Based Planning for Multi-Agent Path Finding with Asynchronous Actions Shuai Zhou, Shizhe Zhao, Zhongqiang Ren AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025 paper \| code

Work Experience

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), ROAS

Visiting Research Assistant (2026.3 - present)
Robot foundation model, world model.
Mentored by Wenxuan Song, Supervised by Haoang Li
Guangzhou, China

Carnegie Mellon University, Mechanical Engineering

Visiting Researcher (2025.8 - 2026.3)
Cross-embodiment robot learning, whole-body control, contact-rich manipulation.
Mentored by Yaru Niu, Supervised by Ding Zhao
Pittsburgh, PA

Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute

Visiting Researcher (2025.6 - 2026.3)
Learning & planning, Multi-Robot Systems.
Mentored by Yorai Shaoul, Jingtian Yan, Supervised by Jiaoyang Li.
Pittsburgh, PA

Shanghai Jiao Tong University-Umich Joint Institute

Research Intern (2024.4 - 2025.8)
Mutli-Robot Motion Planning, Heuristic Search.
Supervised by Zhongqiang Ren
Shanghai, China

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Exchange Student in EECS (2023.8 - 2023.12)
GPA: 4.00/4.00
Berkeley, CA

South China University of Technology

B.Eng in Robotics Engineering (2022.9 - 2026.6)
GPA: 3.84/4.00
Guangzhou, China

Services

Reviewer: IROS (2026, 2025)

Miscellanea

My Chinese name (surname first) is 周帅.
I am a former badminton athlete.
I am from Shenzhen, China. I've also lived in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Taipei through my undergraduate years.

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