Zhipeng Zhao

PhD student

Zhipeng Zhao is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), University at Buffalo (UB). His research interests involve robot perception and neuro-symbolic AI. He has received a Chair’s Fellowship.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science
    • University at Buffalo (UB), USA
    • 2023 - Present
  • Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Information Engineering
    • Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
    • Sep. 2018 - June 2023

Awards

  • Chair’s Fellowship

Other Information

Publications

  1. SuperPC: A Single Diffusion Model for Point Cloud Completion, Upsampling, Denoising, and Colorization.
    Yi Du, Zhipeng Zhao, Shaoshu Su, Sharath Golluri, Haoze Zheng, Runmao Yao, Chen Wang.
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
  2. VL-Nav: Real-time Vision-Language Navigation with Spatial Reasoning.
    Yi Du, Taimeng Fu, Zhuoqun Chen, Bowen Li, Shaoshu Su, Zhipeng Zhao, Chen Wang.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.00931, 2025.
    SAIR Lab Selected
  3. AnyNav: Visual Neuro-symbolic Friction Learning for Off-road Navigation.
    Taimeng Fu, Zitong Zhan, Zhipeng Zhao, Shaoshu Su, Xiao Lin, Ehsan Tarkesh Esfahani, Karthik Dantu, Souma Chowdhury, Chen Wang.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.12654, 2025.
    SAIR Lab Selected
  4. 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.
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16087, 2025.
    SAIR Lab Selected
  5. PhysORD: A Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Physics-infused Motion Prediction in Off-road Driving.
    Zhipeng Zhao, Bowen Li, Yi Du, Taimeng Fu, Chen Wang.
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.
    SAIR Lab Selected
  6. PyPose v0.6: The Imperative Programming Interface for Robotics.
    Zitong Zhan, Xiangfu Li, Qihang Li, Haonan He, Abhinav Pandey, Haitao Xiao, Yangmengfei Xu, Xiangyu Chen, Kuan Xu, Kun Cao, Zhipeng Zhao, Zihan Wang, Huan Xu, Zihang Fang, Yutian Chen, Wentao Wang, Xu Fang, Yi Du, Tianhao Wu, Xiao Lin, Yuheng Qiu, Fan Yang, Jingnan Shi, Shaoshu Su, Yiren Lu, Taimeng Fu, Karthik Dantu, Jiajun Wu, Lihua Xie, Marco Hutter, Luca Carlone, Sebastian Scherer, Daning Huang, Yaoyu Hu, Junyi Geng, Chen Wang.
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop, 2023.
  7. Attention-Enhanced Cross-modal Localization Between Spherical Images and Point Clouds.
    Zhipeng Zhao, Huai Yu, Chenwei Lyu, Wen Yang, Sebastian Scherer.
    IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023.