Li Zhang

Li Zhang

Professor, School of Data Science, Fudan University
Shanghai Innovation Institute

lizhangfd@fudan.edu.cn

About me

I am a full professor at the School of Data Science, Fudan University, where I lead the Logos Robotics Group. I also hold a joint appointment at the Shanghai Innovation Institute (SII).

I completed my PhD in computer science at Queen Mary University of London under professor Tao Xiang, and was subsequently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford with professor Philip H.S. Torr and professor Andrew Zisserman, followed by a role as Research Scientist at Samsung AI Center Cambridge.


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  • I will be serving as a Senior Program Committee for AAAI 2027.
  • I will be serving as an Area Chair for WACV 2026.
  • Five papers to appear in ECCV 2026.
  • Two papers to appear in ICML 2026.
  • Two papers to appear in CVPR 2026.
  • Three papers to appear in ICRA 2026.
  • Three papers to appear in ICLR 2026.
  • Two papers PVG and PARTNER are accepted by IJCV.
  • I will be serving as an Area Chair for ECCV 2026.
  • Our work Efficient4D is accepted by IJCV.
  • One paper to appear in AAAI 2026.
  • Our work Brain3D is accepted by IJCV.
  • Five papers to appear in NeurIPS 2025.
  • Our work RoadNetTransformer is accepted by TPAMI.
  • I will be serving as an Area Chair for CVPR 2026.

Logos Robotics Group

The goal of our group is to build intelligence for robotics, which falls under physical AI.

Specific areas of interest include embodied intelligence , general-purpose multimodal large models and agents , and—to a lesser extent—3D vision and autonomous driving .

Interested in joining the group?

If you are highly creative, have top grades/coding skill and interested in joining my group please do not hesitate to send me your CV and transcripts of grades.
Make sure you are super enthusiastic about AI research.


Highlighted papers (All papers)

Animated FDM MoT pipeline with context, action and generation experts

Forward Dynamics Models

Zipei Ma, Junzhe Jiang, Jiahui Zhang, Juntong Zhang, Chun Gu, Bozhou Zhang, Jiankang Deng, Xiatian Zhu, Li Zhang

arXiv preprint, 2026

This paper uses predictions of an action’s consequences to improve robot policies during training. An asymmetric architecture lets future-state supervision shape action features while keeping future generation out of the deployment-time control loop.

Learning Transferable Dynamics Priors from Action to World Modeling

Ze Huang, Jiahui Zhang, Hairuo Liu, Chenxi Zhang, Ran Cheng, Li Zhang

ECCV 2026

This paper learns a transferable dynamics prior by pretraining a world model on diverse robot manipulation data. The same prior supports both long-horizon visual simulation and an instruction-conditioned policy that jointly predicts future observations and robot actions.

Reinforcing Action Policies by Prophesying

Jiahui Zhang, Ze Huang, Chun Gu, Zipei Ma, Li Zhang

arXiv preprint, 2025

This paper uses a learned action-to-video world model as a simulator for improving robot policies beyond imitation. ProphRL combines this model with reinforcement learning tailored to flow-based action generation, enabling policies to learn more reliable strategies before deployment on real robots.

4D-VLA: Spatiotemporal Vision-Language-Action Pretraining with Cross-Scene Calibration

Jiahui Zhang, Yurui Chen, Yueming Xu, Ze Huang, Yanpeng Zhou, Yu-Jie Yuan, Xinyue Cai, Guowei Huang, Xingyue Quan, Hang Xu, Li Zhang

NeurIPS 2025

This paper uses depth and visual history to give robot policies a more consistent understanding of where objects are and how scenes evolve. Coordinate alignment and informative frame selection improve learning across diverse demonstrations.