Qiwei Du is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), University at Buffalo (UB). His research interests lie at the intersection of Neuro-Symbolic AI, robotic task and motion planning, and 3D computer vision, with a particular focus on building scalable, interpretable systems that bridge symbolic reasoning and neural perception. He has received a Presidential Fellowship. He received the SAIR Rising STAR Award 2025, which was the highest honor for junior researchers in SAIR Lab.

Experience

Research Assistant
- Northeastern University, USA
- Jul. 2023 - Dec. 2023
Research Assistant
- Tongji University, China
- Jan. 2022 - Jun. 2023

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
- University at Buffalo, USA
- Aug. 2024 - Present
B.Eng. in Computer Science and Technology
- Tongji University, China
- Sept. 2020 - Jun. 2024

Awards

Presidential Fellowship
SAIR Rising STAR Award 2025

Emails

Work Email: qiweid@sairlab.org
School Email: qiweidu@buffalo.edu

Publications

Imperative Learning: A Self-supervised Neuro-Symbolic Learning Framework for Robot Autonomy.
Chen Wang, Kaiyi Ji, Junyi Geng, Zhongqiang Ren, Taimeng Fu, Fan Yang, Yifan Guo, Haonan He, Xiangyu Chen, Zitong Zhan, Qiwei Du, Shaoshu Su, Bowen Li, Yuheng Qiu, Yi Du, Qihang Li, Yifan Yang, Xiao Lin, Zhipeng Zhao.
International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2025.

Unifying Neuro-Symbolic Robot Autonomy via a Unified Paradigm
```
@article{wang2025imperative,
  title = {Imperative Learning: A Self-supervised Neuro-Symbolic Learning Framework for Robot Autonomy},
  author = {Wang, Chen and Ji, Kaiyi and Geng, Junyi and Ren, Zhongqiang and Fu, Taimeng and Yang, Fan and Guo, Yifan and He, Haonan and Chen, Xiangyu and Zhan, Zitong and Du, Qiwei and Su, Shaoshu and Li, Bowen and Qiu, Yuheng and Du, Yi and Li, Qihang and Yang, Yifan and Lin, Xiao and Zhao, Zhipeng},
  journal = {International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16087},
  code = {https://github.com/sair-lab/iSeries},
  website = {https://sairlab.org/iseries},
  addendum = {Unifying Neuro-Symbolic Robot Autonomy via a Unified Paradigm}
}
```
```
Wang, Chen and Ji, Kaiyi and Geng, Junyi and Ren, Zhongqiang and Fu, Taimeng and Yang, Fan and Guo, Yifan and He, Haonan and Chen, Xiangyu and Zhan, Zitong and Du, Qiwei and Su, Shaoshu and Li, Bowen and Qiu, Yuheng and Du, Yi and Li, Qihang and Yang, Yifan and Lin, Xiao and Zhao, Zhipeng, "Imperative Learning: A Self-supervised Neuro-Symbolic Learning Framework for Robot Autonomy," International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2025.
```
Fast Task Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Relaxation.
Qiwei Du, Bowen Li, Yi Du, Shaoshu Su, Taimeng Fu, Zitong Zhan, Zhipeng Zhao, Chen Wang.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.15975, 2025.
```
@article{du2025fast,
  title = {Fast Task Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Relaxation},
  author = {Du, Qiwei and Li, Bowen and Du, Yi and Su, Shaoshu and Fu, Taimeng and Zhan, Zitong and Zhao, Zhipeng and Wang, Chen},
  year = {2025},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.15975},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15975},
  website = {https://sairlab.org/flax/},
  video = {https://youtu.be/_4DYcqwycnQ}
}
```
```
Du, Qiwei and Li, Bowen and Du, Yi and Su, Shaoshu and Fu, Taimeng and Zhan, Zitong and Zhao, Zhipeng and Wang, Chen, "Fast Task Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Relaxation," arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.15975, 2025.
```
LogiCity: Advancing Neuro-Symbolic AI with Abstract Urban Simulation.
Bowen Li, Zhaoyu Li, Qiwei Du, Jinqi Luo, Wenshan Wang, Yaqi Xie, Simon Stepputtis, Chen Wang, Katia P. Sycara, Pradeep Kumar Ravikumar, Alexander Gray, Xujie Si, Sebastian Scherer.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), vol. 37, pp. 69840–69864, 2024.
```
@inproceedings{li2024logicity,
  title = {{LogiCity}: Advancing Neuro-Symbolic AI with Abstract Urban Simulation},
  author = {Li, Bowen and Li, Zhaoyu and Du, Qiwei and Luo, Jinqi and Wang, Wenshan and Xie, Yaqi and Stepputtis, Simon and Wang, Chen and Sycara, Katia P. and Ravikumar, Pradeep Kumar and Gray, Alexander and Si, Xujie and Scherer, Sebastian},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {37},
  pages = {69840--69864},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00773},
  website = {https://sairlab.org/datasets/logicity/},
  code = {https://github.com/Jaraxxus-Me/LogiCity}
}
```
```
Li, Bowen and Li, Zhaoyu and Du, Qiwei and Luo, Jinqi and Wang, Wenshan and Xie, Yaqi and Stepputtis, Simon and Wang, Chen and Sycara, Katia P. and Ravikumar, Pradeep Kumar and Gray, Alexander and Si, Xujie and Scherer, Sebastian, "LogiCity: Advancing Neuro-Symbolic AI with Abstract Urban Simulation," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
```
A survey of multi-agent cross domain cooperative perception.
Zhongpan Zhu, Qiwei Du, Zhipeng Wang, Gang Li.
Electronics, vol. 11, no. 7, p. 1091, 2022.
```
@article{zhu2022survey,
  title = {A survey of multi-agent cross domain cooperative perception},
  author = {Zhu, Zhongpan and Du, Qiwei and Wang, Zhipeng and Li, Gang},
  journal = {Electronics},
  volume = {11},
  number = {7},
  pages = {1091},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {MDPI}
}
```
```
Zhu, Zhongpan and Du, Qiwei and Wang, Zhipeng and Li, Gang, "A survey of multi-agent cross domain cooperative perception," Electronics, 2022.
```
Intelligent evaluation method of human cervical vertebra rehabilitation based on computer vision.
Qiwei Du, Heting Bai, Zhongpan Zhu.
Sensors, vol. 23, no. 8, p. 3825, 2023.
```
@article{du2023intelligent,
  title = {Intelligent evaluation method of human cervical vertebra rehabilitation based on computer vision},
  author = {Du, Qiwei and Bai, Heting and Zhu, Zhongpan},
  journal = {Sensors},
  volume = {23},
  number = {8},
  pages = {3825},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {MDPI}
}
```
```
Du, Qiwei and Bai, Heting and Zhu, Zhongpan, "Intelligent evaluation method of human cervical vertebra rehabilitation based on computer vision," Sensors, 2023.
```
Edge Intelligent Perception Agents for Smart City Field Application.
Zhongpan Zhu, Hanlin Yang, Qiwei Du, Zhipeng Wang, Dekang Zhu, Viswanath Goud Bellam, Fenggui Chang, Gang Li.
2022 2nd International Conference on Computer, Control and Robotics (ICCCR), pp. 167–171, 2022.
```
@inproceedings{zhu2022edge,
  title = {Edge Intelligent Perception Agents for Smart City Field Application},
  author = {Zhu, Zhongpan and Yang, Hanlin and Du, Qiwei and Wang, Zhipeng and Zhu, Dekang and Bellam, Viswanath Goud and Chang, Fenggui and Li, Gang},
  booktitle = {2022 2nd International Conference on Computer, Control and Robotics (ICCCR)},
  pages = {167--171},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {IEEE}
}
```
```
Zhu, Zhongpan and Yang, Hanlin and Du, Qiwei and Wang, Zhipeng and Zhu, Dekang and Bellam, Viswanath Goud and Chang, Fenggui and Li, Gang, "Edge Intelligent Perception Agents for Smart City Field Application," 2022 2nd International Conference on Computer, Control and Robotics (ICCCR), 2022.
```

Motto

Be a heavy sword with no blades.
Cleave the unknown with no tricks.