Yuhang Lu 陆宇航

I am a first-year Ph.D. student at HKU MMLab, co-advised by Prof. Hongyang Li and Prof. Bin Chen. Before joining HKU, I worked as a Research Assistant at 4DVLab with Prof. Yuexin Ma, collaborating closely with Dr. Xinge Zhu. I received my B.Sc. with first-class honours from the dual-degree program between Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Queen Mary University of London.

Research Interests

Physical AI, especially humanoid robotics and autonomous driving.
Humanoid robot foundation models with transferability, compositionality, and contact awareness.
3D understanding under distribution shift, limited supervision, and long-tail scenarios.

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Latest Updates

News

Jun 2026

We release RoboNaldo, an accurate, stable and powerful humanoid soccer shooting policy!
Apr 2026

WorldEngine is open-sourced! The missing infrastructure for Physical AI post-training in Autonomous Driving.
Feb 2026

DriveCombo was accepted by CVPR 2026.
Oct 2025

Started my Ph.D. at HKU MMLab.
Jun 2025

ReAL-AD was accepted by ICCV 2025.
Dec 2024

IDKB was accepted by AAAI 2025.
Sep 2024

OctreeOcc was accepted by NeurIPS 2024.
Sep 2024

Introduced IDKB, a large-scale vision-language benchmark for professional driving knowledge.

Selected Publications

* indicates equal contribution.

arXiv 2026 · Co-author

RoboNaldo: Accurate, Stable and Powerful Humanoid Soccer Shooting via Motion-Guided Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

Yichao Zhong*, Yidan Lu*, Yuhang Lu, Tianyang Tang, Haoguang Mai, Yixuan Pan, Tianyu Li, Li Chen, Jingbo Wang, Zhongyu Li, Peng Lu, Hongyang Li

arXiv preprint, 2026

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arXiv 2026 · Co-author

World Engine: Towards the Era of Post-Training for Autonomous Driving

Tianyu Li*, Li Chen*, Caojun Wang*, Haochen Liu*, Kashyap Chitta*, Zhenjie Yang*, Yuhang Lu, Naisheng Ye, Yihang Qiu, Yufei Wang, Luoxi Zou, Jiaxin Peng, Jin Pan, Zhaoyu Su, Andrei Bursuc, Shengbo Eben Li, Andreas Geiger, Peng Su, Hongyang Li

arXiv preprint, 2026

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CVPR 2026 · Co-author

DriveCombo: Benchmarking Compositional Traffic Rule Reasoning in Autonomous Driving

Enhui Ma*, Jiahuan Zhang*, Guantian Zheng, Tao Tang, Shengbo Eben Li, Yuhang Lu, Xia Zhou, Xueyang Zhang, Yifei Zhan, Kun Zhan, Zhihui Hao, Xianpeng Lang, Kaicheng Yu

The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026

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ICCV 2025 · First author

ReAL-AD: Towards Human-Like Reasoning in End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Yuhang Lu, Jiadong Tu, Xinge Zhu, Yuexin Ma

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025

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ICRA 2025 · Co-author

RenderWorld: World Model with Self-Supervised 3D Label

Ziyang Yan, Wenzhen Dong, Yihua Shao, Yuhang Lu, Liu Haiyang, Jingwen Liu, Haozhe Wang, Zhe Wang, Yan Wang, Fabio Remondino, Yuexin Ma

2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025)

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AAAI 2025 · Co-first author

Can LVLMs Obtain a Driver's License? A Benchmark Towards Reliable AGI for Autonomous Driving

Yuhang Lu*, Yichen Yao*, Jiadong Tu*, Jiangnan Shao*, Yuexin Ma, Xinge Zhu

Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25)

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NeurIPS 2024 · First author

OctreeOcc: Efficient and Multi-Granularity Occupancy Prediction Using Octree Queries

Yuhang Lu, Xinge Zhu, Tai Wang, Yuexin Ma

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024

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ICCV 2023 · Co-first author

See More and Know More: Zero-shot Point Cloud Segmentation via Multi-modal Visual Data

Yuhang Lu*, Qi Jiang*, Runnan Chen, Yuenan Hou, Xinge Zhu, Yuexin Ma

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023

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Experience

June 2026 - Present

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence · Beijing, China

Research Intern · Supervised by Pengwei Wang.

January 2026 - April 2026

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · Shenzhen, China

Research Intern · Supervised by Jiaxin Peng.

June 2025 - September 2025

Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Shanghai, China

Research Intern · Supervised by Li Chen.

August 2022 - April 2025

ShanghaiTech University · Shanghai, China

Research Assistant · Supervised by Yuexin Ma.

Education

October 2025 - Present

The University of Hong Kong

Ph.D., School of Computing and Data Science

September 2018 - July 2022

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications & Queen Mary University of London

Joint B.E. Program in Internet of Things Engineering (First-class honours)

Miscellaneous

Academic Service

I serve as a reviewer for CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, AAAI, ICRA, and related venues.

Beyond Research

Outside research, I enjoy billiards and jogging.

Contact

I am always happy to connect about Physical AI, humanoid robot, 3D vision, and related research collaborations. Feel free to reach out to me via email.

lu.yuhang@connect.hku.hk