Yizhuo Wu

I am a Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), advised by Prof. Huan Zhang.

I received my B.S. in Computer Science from Peking University in 2026, where I was advised by Prof. Hao Dong as part of the PKU-Agibot Lab.

My research focuses on developing foundation models for generalizable, robust, and dexterous robotic manipulation in complex real-world environments, combining large-scale pre-training, computer vision, and reinforcement learning.

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News

[2026.07] 🎓 I graduated from Peking University with a B.S. in Computer Science.
[2025.06] 🎉One paper gets accepted by IROS 2025 as oral presentation.

Publications

* Equal Contribution

SimLauncher: Launching Sample-Efficient Real-world Robotic Reinforcement Learning via Simulation Pre-training
Mingdong Wu*, Lehong Wu*, Yizhuo Wu*, Weiyao Huang, Hongwei Fan, Zheyuan Hu, Haoran Geng, Jinzhou Li, Jiahe Ying, Long Yang, Yuanpei Chen, Hao Dong
IROS 2025, Oral Presentation
[Paper] [Video][Project]

We combine the strengths of real-world RL and real-to-sim-to-real approaches to accelerate policy learning.

Experience

	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) 2026.08 - Present Ph.D. Student Advisor: Prof. Huan Zhang
	University of California, Berkeley (UCB) 2025.07 - 2025.12 Visiting Student at BAIR Advisor: Haoran Geng, Prof. Jitendra Malik
	Peking University (PKU) 2022.09 - 2026.07 B.S. in Computer Science Research Advisor: Prof. Hao Dong