Hao Dong
Scholar

Hao Dong

Google Scholar ID: xLFL4sMAAAAJ
Tenured Associate Professor at Peking University
Embodied AIRobotics3D VisionRobot LearningReinforcement Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
9,270
 
H-index
42
 
i10-index
95
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
18
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Finalist for Best Application Paper at IROS 2024, nominated for Outstanding Young Researcher Paper Award at China Embodied AI Conference (CEAI) 2025, shortlisted for Youth Outstanding Paper Award at World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2025. Served as Area Chair or Senior Program Committee member for CVPR, NeurIPS, and AAAI conferences, and as Associate Editor of ICRA and Machine Intelligence Research. Received the MIR Outstanding Associate Editor Award. Led several open source projects, including Polar Research Station, TensorLayer, and OpenMLsys, and honored with multiple awards such as the Huawei Smart Base - Outstanding Contribution Award by the Ministry of Education in 2021, Best Open Source Software Award at ACM Multimedia 2017, and two OpenI Outstanding Project Awards (in 2021 and 2022 respectively).
Research Experience
  • Currently a professor at the School of Computer Science and the Center for Frontier Computing Studies at Peking University, leading PKU-Hyperplane Lab and PKU-Agibot Joint Lab. Founded an AI-driven hardware startup between 2012 and 2015.
Education
  • Ph.D. from Imperial College London under the supervision of Yike Guo; MSc with distinction from Imperial College London; First-class BEng from the University of Central Lancashire.
Background
  • Tenured Associate Professor and researcher at Peking University, focusing on embodied AI, large models, reinforcement learning, computer vision, and their corresponding open-source systems. A recipient of the National Young Talent Plan.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests not detailed