Hao Huang

Post Doctoral Associate, New York University Abu Dhabi

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About

👤 I am currently a Post Doctoral Associate at the NYU Embodied AI and Robotics Lab and the Center for AI and Robotics (CAIR) at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Prior to this, I completed my Ph.D. at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University (NY City), under the supervision of Prof. Yi Fang. I earned my B.Eng. degree in Digital Media Technology and my M.S. degree in Computer Science from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, the latter under the supervision of Prof. Huadong Ma, followed by an M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Rochester, USA, under the supervision of Prof. Chenliang Xu.

My Research

My research is dedicated to advancing robotics that are robust, adaptable, and equitable through the development of intelligent, AI-driven methods, incorporating innovations in 3D computer vision, signal analysis, multimodal foundation models, imitation learning and reinforcement learning to enhance robotic perception, motion and reasoning. By combining theoretical insights with practical applications, I aim to develop robotic systems that prioritize accuracy, efficiency, and safety, enabling intelligent interaction with complex environments.

Work Experience

Jan 2023 – now · Post Doctoral Associate @ New York University Abu Dhabi

Cool Robot Videos

Kitchen manipulation

GaMap: zero-shot object navigation

Embodied chain-of-action reasoning

A2C for multi-robot collaboration

Humanoid Charleston dance

Humanoid kung-fu side kick

Humanoid foot-tap dance

Human–humanoid co-manipulation

Dexterous pick-and-place

VLM for zero-shot object navigation

Academic Services

Area Chair: ICPR 2026; WACV 2026, 2027.

Co-chair: International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Innovations (AIE 2025); Embodied AI: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities (EMAI 2024, in conjunction with IEEE ICIP 2024).

Conference Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, AISTATS, WACV, BMVC, ICPR, ICIP, IROS, ICRA, CoRL.

Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Neurocomputing, Information Fusion, Robotics and Autonomous Systems.